‘Hack The Crisis-India’ Hackathon: To find solutions to overcome COVID-19 

‘Hack The Crisis-India’ Hackathon: To find solutions to overcome COVID-19 

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Health

In News:

• Minister of State Human Resource Development (HRD) recently launched Hack the Crisis – India. 

Key takeaways:

• It is an Online Hackathon to find working solutions for overcoming COVID-19 pandemic.
• The winning ideas from few top participating teams, as implementable solutions on corona crisis, are expected to help India and global citizens.  
• It is a part of global initiative. 
• It is being organised by ‘Hack A Cause – India’ and ‘FICCI Ladies Organization Pune’. 
• This hackathon is supported by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.