2019-nCoV Hackathon — Hack Against Global Coronavirus Outbreak
28 January 2020, DoraHacks, the largest and most active hacker community in China launched the 2019-nCoV Hackathon. All hackers worldwide are invited to join, team up and hack against the global coronavirus outbreak with various skill sets and creativity!
Details:
When: from now on until the outbreak ends.
Where: remote (online groups etc.)
Registration here!
- China has been battling the outbreak of pneumonia-like illnesses, first detected in the central city of Wuhan in December 2019, for over a month.
- The spate of illnesses is caused by a novel coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, which has now infected over 24,000 Chinese citizens and claimed more than 490 lives.
- Residents of Wuhan and China are facing great difficulties since then. At present, the whole country is racing against the outbreak.
- Meanwhile, multiple countries globally reported confirmed cases and the situation is rapidly evolving.
We always believe with technology we can solve the most urgent problems in everyone’s daily life. We know we can and must do something now to help.
Therefore, DoraHacks decided to launch 2019-nCoV Hackathon in China.
Within 24 hours, over 150 hackers have signed up to help to solve the urgent needs. Among them, many are experienced hackers from Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Kwai, Bytedance, Alibaba, Huawei etc. as well as hackers skilled in product development and design from Tsinghua, Stanford, Cornell, SJTU, HUST, XJTU, Tongji, ZJU etc. Everyone is working hard to come up with a solution that may help.
And now, we would like to invite hackers all around the world to join our 2019-nCoV Hackathon. No matter where you are and what you do, if you also want to apply your skills and ideas to help fighting against the virus outbreak, please join us now!
If you study …
Clinical medicine, genetics, pharmacy, environmental protection, air / water pollution control, computer vision, design (human-computer interaction), deep learning, product design, etc.
And work in the area like …
Applet development, product, user research, UI / UX design, Tensorflow, Rust, data processing, industrial design, engineering, sketch 3D modeling, graphic design, public health, etc.
What you can do is …
Start or join in a project where you can, for instance, analyze statistic data, e.g. the data of migration, age distribution of the patients, etc. (Other ideas are welcomed.) We will help hackers team up as well if you sign up as an individual participant.
Experts in related areas are always welcomed to join. We’ll help launch and promote applicable outcomes of each project with collaborating media platforms and we can eventually help people in need!
We are looking forward to working with you! Together we fight against the coronavirus outbreak as hackers. The real battle needs you now!
Details:
When: from now on until the outbreak ends.
Where: remote (online groups etc.)
Registration here!
About DoraHacks
DoraHacks is a global hacker community and the largest hacker community in China. DoraHacks’ mission is to connect the most talented hackers around the world to solve the greatest problems we face in different industries and to solve real urgent issues in our diversiform society. Our global hackers base mainly in San Francisco, Bangaluru, Tokyo, Seoul, Boston, Berlin and other cities in the world.