COVID Fighter app won the 2021 Nepal Journathon Prize during the Nepal Journathon on Covid-19 organised by Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) on Thursday.
Onlinekhabar
February 19, 2021
Kathmandu, February 19
The Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) organised the Nepal Journathon on Covid-19, a one-day hackathon, in its bid to seek solutions to current challenges to the country’s pandemic response.
Five groups consisting of 25 journalists, health professionals, and tech activists worked together in the online event on Thursday to find and create long-term solutions.
They introduced five solutions, among which the organisers awarded three with a prize money that would ideally support the participants to implement their ideas.
A three-member panel including Brown University Alpert Medical School’s Dr Ramu Kharel, NIMJN’s Rajneesh Bhandari and development specialist Sharada Gyawali selected the top three ideas among the five presented based on feasibility, implementability, innovativeness, importance in the context of Nepal and quality of the presentation. Top three ideas were awarded Rs 50,000, Rs 30,0