Hack the Crisis, Online Hackathon for Covid 19 Solutions

India's Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technology, Communications has announced the launch of Hack the
Crisis-India, an online Hackathon to find working solutions for overcoming
COVID 19 pandemic.
This hackathon is part of a global initiative and is being organised by ‘Hack A
Cause – India’ and ‘Ficci Ladies Organization Pune’ and supported by Ministry
of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India (MEITY).
Aim of this hackathon is to strengthen fight against COVID19.The winning ideas
from few top participating teams, as implementable solutions on corona crisis
is expected to help India and global citizens.
Launching the hackathon, Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and
IT, said that COVID-19 has thrown up unprecedented challenges for the world and
industries alike. He said over 2000 teams and over 15000 participants will be
enhancing their working prototypes in 48hour hackathon with expert mentoring
from India, Estonia and Finland. Top teams from India will participate in 'Hack
the Crisis - World’ global hackathon in coming weeks.
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