What is it about?

This Hacking Health Covid-19 has similarities with hackathons and also one main difference: it is similar since it requires a strong involvement on a short period of time (or multiple shorts periods) to create a viable contribution, and it is also different in the sense that it spans over a 6-week period.

Why this initiative?

This initiative just wants to be a positive use of our time and resources to potentially help communities around us or around the world. Have a look here to read our mission statement.

What are the expectations?

You will build and propose a module to our committee. This module will be integrated in a dashboard/website.

Our main objective is to provide a scientific perspective to the world conversation and to open up our contribution so that other people can leverage it. Open data + open code + open research = reproducible research.

What is the outcome?

A dashboard/website based on open and reproducible research will be made available to the community.

How can I participate?

To participate, students need to form teams of 3 people. Teams must designate a team leader and fill up this form: Registration form to Hacking Health Covid-19

What are the dates?

It starts on April 7 and ends on May 18, 2020. The fact that it lasts 6 weeks means that teams will be able to enter at any point of time and can finish before May the 18th. Teams jump in and out whenever they want during this period.

What are the tools made available?

First, we make our research platform available. It's a combination of cutting-edge tools that we use in our research. This platform includes a communication platform - our Open Knowledge Base -, a virtual campus where they will have access to a lot of the code we are using in research, and to a computing platform where they will be able to integrate their R code.

We have also developed a unique environment to support this Hacking Health. You will find a lot of resources to help you build your module (data, examples of potential modules, etc.) but also many tutorials to help you in the design and coding of your module.

Don't wait any longer and discover our environment for this Hacking Health: