Ebola Crisis Hackathon
Details
Oxford Launchpad is bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the University of Oxford student body and selected local experts to explore and solve “pinch-points” in the response, care and management of the global response against Ebola.
You don’t have to be an expert in healthcare or infectious disease to contribute your insights and ideas – in fact, some of the brightest solutions may be found in the most unthinkable corners.
Participants will be posed a set of current, genuine and real problems faced by the field experts during their encounters with the crisis. We expect these experts to come from frontline experience or to be at a policy and management level; we have already seen organic interest for such an effort from such experts.
Multidisciplinary teams are formed, and receive resources and a crash course in design thinking, details about the Ebola virus and a “briefing pack” on the current situation.
Expected outcomes are practical, innovative and entrepreneurial solutions which can be applied to the problems initially posed. The solutions could contain procedures, processes, websites, apps, hardware and/or software. We expect some challenges in ethics and technological implementation due to the cultural barriers in the afflicted regions and the remote locations of some of the worst cases.
Format:
Friday 7 November 6pm
Converge on the Launchpad for the presentations of proposals, team formation and crash course in design thinking methods.
Food and drink reception
Saturday 8 November (from 8am)
HACK!!
Breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner provided
Sunday 9 November (from 9am - 4pm)
Finalisation of hacking
Report back to the group.
Drinks reception.
If you have any questions do email me:
We're presently looking for:
Core support
People willing to provide their experience of problems in the field (under Chatham House rules)
Participants from STEM subjects and other experts.
Ebola Crisis Hackathon