Spotle COVID Hackathon: students from top colleges to present solutions
Kolkata: The COVID pandemic has spiraled into a global crisis with severe impact on human lives and livelihoods. A large number of people, particularly health-workers, are working relentlessly to fight the pandemic. The technology industry has stepped in to power this resistance too. From enabling reliable and fast testing to developing vaccines and disseminating accurate warnings to citizen, technology is playing a key role in solving the COVID crisis. Spotle launched the COVID Hackathon for students across India to involve them in building solutions and generate out-of-the-box ideas for the COVID pandemic. The hackathon required students to work on either of the two problems: 1) Build powerful visualisation tools to trace the outbreak and recovery patterns, across geographies, using data from public sources. 2) Develop the prototype for a COVID rapid testing mechanism using X-ray images. Over 100 students from India ’s leading colleges including IIT Guwahati...