Calling all hackers, coders, designers, developers, entrepreneurs:  individuals, teams or organizations 

Scope:

• participants need to create solutions that will help 
  • Ordinary people who need access to the latest information on how best to protect themselves and their families, report an outbreak, and continue their education
  • Healthcare workers who need to efficiently triage, treat, and track Ebola cases
• All solutions should be easily translatable to multiple languages
• Solutions should be borderless, applicable to any country
• Solutions should be designed and developed with the universality to solve similar challenges around any large scale human disaster, health epidemics, occurrences

Project ideas:

No proper knowledge management

Provide a simple, user-friendly interactive format for sharing information and certified best practices related to ebola in a very organized easy to follow format. This should be able to be used by schools, organizations, churches, traditional rulers, individuals, etc to educate the populace

Communicate across illiteracy

Design and develop user and culturally friendly ways to communicate to a demographic that might not be able to read/write or have misconceptions

Feelings of isolation

Provide an ability for infected people to be able to interact virtually with others, and other entertainment tools that will lessen the impact of being isolated

At-home care solution

How can we provide a DIY solution for initial care when families take care of their own infected relatives as well as ensuring that they protect themselves from infection

Quick, easy testing

Provide an ability for families and healthcare workers to be able to test and confirm whether someone is infected or not. Solutions needed for collecting blood samples and providing rapid diagnosis in a safe environment

Report & track incidences

Provide an ability for citizens/healthcare workers to be able to report incidents of ebola infection and update in real time for tracking purposes and the fight to contain the disease

DIY isolation units

Think of and design solutions that can use existing material/resources/facilities to provide safe isolation units. This solution should be a DIY process so regular people can follow the steps and successfully implement

Team knowledge-sharing platform

How can we provide a solution that connects all the needed team that come together to tackle this medical dilemma. Ambulance workers, nurses, police officers, family members, etc on 1 knowledge sharing platform

 Q&A platform for Ebola

Can we design something similar to a FAQ site for helping to quickly answer questions about ebola?

Create your own problem statement

Generate your own problem statement within the scope of this hackathon. The focus is to provide solutions that can help health care workers or those impacted/infected by ebola