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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...

Achyuta Ghosh, Head - Research, NASSCOM New Delhi: NASSCOM Community, an open knowledge sharing platform for the Indian technology industry, announced its Advisory Board members. NASSCOM is the apex body for the 180 billion dollar IT BPM industry in India . The board members were welcomed on 2nd May. Another round of video conferencing will be held on 8th May, Sunday. The 7-member advisory board includes Achyuta Ghosh, Head of Research, NASSCOM. The other members are: Dr Amit Nagpal, Dr D Prasanth Nair, Kriti Makhija, Narvijay Yadav, Rimjhim Ray and Jaishankar Gupta. Achyuta Ghosh said, “At NASSCOM Community, we discuss the latest technologies and impact of policies and changing markets; monitor trends; interview industry leaders; put the spotlight on brilliant startups and ideas.” Achyuta has over 18 years of professional experience in analytics, research and consulting. He is an active technology evangelist and has assisted Fortune 500 companies and investors wit...