hackCOVID

Objective

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore seeks ideas that can be quickly developed using technology and deployed on the ground to manage and contain the spread of COVID-19 in India.

The solutions geared toward the areas of healthcare and public administration that are currently at the forefront of managing the crisis in India. The solutions are to be developed keeping in mind the challenges in the Indian context (levels of technology penetration, social stigmatization, privacy, demographics of rural vs. urban areas, etc.)

Join us today! Share your ideas and work with skilled developers toward developing meaningful solutions in the fight against COVID-19 in India!

Prizes

IIMB will recognize the best contributions with letters of appreciation.

Themes

Healthcare >> COVID-19 Patient Symptom Screening and Reporting

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in India, it is bound to burden the healthcare system across the country, especially as we move into the community-transmission phase. Currently, only the data for the number of confirmed cases for COVID-19 is available in the country. Additionally, with difficulties in large-scale testing of patients, having greater visibility at the patient-symptom level may add significant value to the ongoing efforts.

• Propose novel ideas that can be developed into viable solutions to enable frontline health workers to routinely report cases with COVID-19 symptoms, including general information such as the severity of the cases, age group, occupation, contact with someone with travel history to affected areas, history of chronic ailments (diabetes, hypertension, kidney diseases, weak immune systems, etc.), and more

Coupled with data on verified cases, such crowdsourced data at the healthcare worker level could be instrumental in predicting future outbreak clusters and help with resource allocation and planning.

Design guidelines

• Easy signup and onboarding: The onboarding of new users such as frontline health workers should be able to scale up organically, for example, through word-of-mouth.
• Lightweight application
• Strict adherence to principles of privacy by design

Open to individuals/groups with knowledge in the healthcare domain (access or understanding or both), such as doctors, nurses, primary healthcare workers, healthcare policymakers, developers in the health-tech industry including HackerEarth’s developer community, and more.

Public administration >> Tracing and monitoring

In order to contain the spread of COVID-19, the Government of India has urged all state governments to monitor individuals who are most likely to get infected. The government has urged officials to trace people with recent travel history to international destinations or infected domestic clusters, find others who have come in contact with them in the recent past, and instruct them all to self-quarantine.

Currently, this information is being sourced through airlines and travel agencies, event organizers, social broadcasting, and the likes. Government officials are then sent to physically screen these individuals for symptoms.

However, as the number of positive cases rises exponentially, this process will not be scalable.

• Propose novel ideas to assist state government bodies with tracing individuals who have been instructed to self-quarantine or the ones who may have come in contact with individuals who have been tested positive for COVID-19, without invading their privacy
• Propose novel ideas to track symptoms of individuals who have been instructed to home-quarantine, without invading their privacy

Design guidelines:

• Easy signup and onboarding
• Seamless integration of the government and user-side applications
• Strict adherence to principles of privacy by design

Open to all

Timeline and phases

Phase 1: Idea development and write-up submission

Last date to submit your abstract: April 16, 2020.

Register for the challenge, choose a track, write your idea, and submit it.

Deliverables from the candidate:

• Detailed description of the idea
• Use case(s)
• Level of know-how/domain knowledge of the context and background

• Data flow
• UI wireframes/mock
• Architecture
• Tech stack

Phase 2: Prototype development and submission

Last date to submit your project: April 30, 2020.

Deliverables from the candidate:

Submission of the basic prototype which should compulsorily include:

• Video demo
• Source code
• Presentation

Other fields like repository links, snapshots, etc., are optional but will get brownie points.

The IIMB team will be reviewing submissions on a rolling basis—the sooner you build the sooner they may work toward deploying viable solutions at the ground level with the help of relevant organizations.