The World Health Organisation (WHO) has partnered with technical school giants like Facebook and Microsoft for a worldwide hackathon, asking developers to create software package solutions that drive social impact, with the aim of coping with a number of the challenges associated with this coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Along with Facebook and Microsoft, technical school corporations Twitter, WeChat, TikTok, Pinterest, and Slack are collaborating within the hackathon.
The #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon would begin acceptive project submissions on Thursday. The hackathon would announce high comes in April.
“We’re encouraging YOU – innovators around the world – to #BuildforCOVID19 using technologies of your choice across a range of suggested themes and challenge areas – some of which have been sourced through health partners including the World Health Organization and scientists at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub,”
“Given the isolation currently being experienced within communities right now, we want to create an online space where developers could ideate, experiment and build software solutions to help address this crisis,”
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Facebook options like Blood Donations and Crisis Response were 1st engineered throughout hackathons and are currently employed by voluminous individuals worldwide. I’m hopeful that some helpful prototypes and concepts can start-up of this one similarly,” aforementioned corporate executive Mark Zuckerberg during a post.
