HackZurich hosts online coronavirus hackathon
Sponsored by the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) and the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA), HackZurich, ETH Zurich, and other partners co-organised #CodeVsCOVID19, a 72-hour online hackathon for developing potential solutions to combat coronavirus by uniting intelligence, knowledge, and capacity of interdisciplinary technology experts and researchers. Through the event, teams developed various open-source prototypes that can contribute to solving the pandemic. To see the projects and vote for them, click here.
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