Otsimo founder Elcik wins Social Impact Award at GSEA Global Finals
Young
entrepreneur Hasan Zafer Elcik has been named ‘the best social entrepreneur of
the year’ by winning the Social Impact Award with his project Otsimo at Global
Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA) Global Finals. Being the first global
achievement of EO Turkey finalists in GSEA, this is not only a milestone for
Zafer Elcik, but also for Turkish chapter.
56
incredible student entrepreneurs from 56 countries have competed at the global
finals that were held on 29th of April at Frankfurt, Germany. Otsimo was one of
the 6 projects which finished the competition with granting an award. Otsimo is
a mobile platform that produces educational materials for children with autism
and offers reports & optimization systems based on machine learning to the
children's families.
Introduced
to EO Turkey by Omer Akarca, founding member of EO Turkey and Galata Business
Angels, Zafer Elcik believes that education must be reachable for everyone to
effectively create a change. After
receiving his award, Elcik’s next stop will be Canada next year. He is going to
be among the jury members at 2018 GSEA finals in Toronto.