Illustrative image (Photo: Internet) Hanoi (VNA) - The “Hack Co Vy 2020” online hackathon, the first of itskind in Vietnam, was held from April 24 to 26 with the aim of helping thecountry solve the challenges posed by COVID-19.
The hackathon was a joint effort by the Hanoi YouthUnion in collaboration with the UN Development Programme and Angel Hack.
Winning teams now have the chanceto join Angel Hack’s HACKcelerator incubation programme to realise and scale uptheir ideas.
Competitors were asked to create technologicalsolutions to help people overcome the negative impact of COVID-19 - which aredivided into six categories: education, climate, information, health, economics,and employment.
Within 48 hours the organising board received over 420entries and 65 products. The best eight ideas received prizes.
At the ideatation track, awards of 2,000 USD and gifts from Amazon Web Servicesplatform and HACKcelerator were presented to the DHSYN team with its quarantinemanagement app Quaranhome, the O Ooo team with its Sechi app promoting thesharing of family responsibilities, and the Kids team with its Zero app that helpslimit and reuse discarded food.
At the acceleration track, a 2,000 USD award was presented to the AIOZ team withits BettleBot project, which helps medical and security staff identify socialdistancing violations.
VinAI’s incubator programme also handed over 1,000 USDeach to three teams with the best AI products: the Mam team with GudNews, AIOZwith BettleBot, and an X-ray liver image diagnosis app from the Import Kerasteam./.
