Name: VersusVirus Hackathon
Start: 2020-04-03T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-04-06T20:30:00+02:00

Ankündigungsbild von opendata.ch für «VersusVirus Hackathon»

3.–6. April 2020, 09:00 @ Online

Veranstaltet von Opendata.ch, Impact Hub Switzerland, digitalswitzerland, foraus – Forum Aussenpolitik, staatslabor, Kickstart Innovation AG, GEN Switzerland, ETH Entrepreneur Club, gluoNNet, THE Port, Tech4Impact, We Start, Zetamind AG, Alliance4Impact, SocialUp, eqlosion, Breathing Games Association, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (World Economic Forum), GRAFIK2, Open Geneva, Utopia, Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)

Drei Wochen nach Beginn des Lockdowns brachte #VersusVirus vom 3. bis 5. April 2020 die Schweiz zum ersten landesweiten Online-Hackathon zusammen – initiiert von über 50 Personen aus mehr als 20 Organisationen, darunter Impact Hub Switzerland und Opendata.ch, unter dem Patronat von EDI und WBF. 4610 Registrierte in 611 Teams arbeiteten 48 Stunden lang an 189 Challenges in 14 Themenbereichen, von Selbstdiagnose und Contact Tracing über verlässliche Daten gegen Fake News bis zu Bildung, Kultur und Nachbarschaftshilfe. Einige Challenges kamen vom BAG, von Kantonen, Städten und Hochschulen; rund 500 Mentorinnen und Mentoren begleiteten die Teams über Slack und Zoom.

Das Programm lief fast ganz im Livestream: How-to-Sessions vom Problem über Konzept und Prototyp bis zu Pitch und Video, drei Inspirational Panels mit Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentariern, eine Videoschaltung mit Bundesrat Alain Berset und, unter #funversusvirus, Yoga, Müesli-Konzerte und Online-Discos. Bis Sonntag, 18 Uhr, wurden auf Devpost rund 270 Projekte eingereicht.

Eine Jury aus Verwaltung, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft wählte 42 Highlights, die je CHF 1000 Startkapital erhielten und an der Closing Ceremony am 6. April vorgestellt wurden. Aus dem Hackathon gingen ein Förderfonds von rund CHF 200'000 und ein mehrmonatiges Online-Inkubationsprogramm hervor; Ende Mai folgte ein zweiter VersusVirus-Hackathon. Opendata.ch hob in seinem Rückblick pandemia-parliament, Swissrefucare, Covidfact und Fast2Gov hervor.

Fotos

Foto: Sophie Conchon / Sketch4Good, #VersusVirus

Dokumentation und Aufzeichnungen

#VersusVirus – The Swiss hackathon against COVID19 – Highlights-Video (YouTube)

Challenges

The Digital Stage
Low-Latency and Central Mixdown / Greenscreen Video Conference Tool, designed for Artistic Needs & Applications

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

Online Rehearsals and Performances by Music and Theatre Groups, without the need to meet on a real stage

Challenge

Low-Latency and Central Mixdown / Greenscreen Video Conference Tool, designed for Artistic Needs & Applications

Potential solutions

This is Project No 265 of the German wirvsvirushackathon.org ( digital-stage.net )

Needed resources

All kinds of support
Cultural Experiences go Online
How can we transform the cultural events, museums and art experiences to a digital channel and make it accessible remotely? How can we extent this solution also for older people?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

With the current measures in place (and potential restrictions until the end of the year), museums and exhibitions are fighting for their economic survival, and a lot of people are confined to their four walls at home. But also during "normal" times, a part of the population is not able to visit museums etc, such as elderly people or people with walking difficulties.

Challenge

How can we transform the cultural events, museums and art experiences to a digital channel and make it accessible remotely? How can we extent this solution also for older people?

Potential solutions

A potential solution that has been suggested: - A simple and functional platform, bringing together children, grandchildren and grandparents. Ideally, for first prototyping streams of "Tagesschau" are implemented, later theatre performances - it combines synchronized streaming and videochat, but according to the principles of KISS (keep it simple and smart) - in short: it must work. No useless functions.
Together into the virtual pandemic museum!
We can't go to the museum together anymore. How can we gather new impressions from home and discover art and culture with other people?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

Museums are closed, we stay at home and the Corona pandemic is THE topic. We spend the days alone with Netflix, home office and home workout.

Challenge

We can't go to the museum together anymore. How can we gather new impressions from home and discover art and culture with other people?

Potential solutions

An independent digital museum that we visit together. We enter the museum individually or in groups and browse the rooms. We are connected via an audio chat and exchange information. In the rooms, content on the topic of pandemic is conveyed.

Needed resources

Research of public domain content, editing, illustration, UX design, back-end & front-end programming
Culture and health for a sustainable future – Kulturabteilung der Stadt Lugano mit der IBSA Foundation (Lugano Living Lab)
The wide range of media channels and disperse information makes it hard for people to understand the available cultural offering, both at the national and international level, and how to access it.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

People are forced to stay home and need/deserve creative outlets to help them cope, be inspired and make everyone feel connected through a shared love of art, creation, and life.

Challenge

The wide range of media channels and disperse information makes it hard for people to understand the available cultural offering, both at the national and international level, and how to access it.

Potential solutions

The creation of a web-information hub, in collaboration with the site culturaesalute.ch, which will contain Switzerland’s digital cultural offer as a whole, offering direct access to museums, music, dance, and theatre experiences through virtual views accessible directly from home.

Needed resources

We already own a solid database of relevant information, but would need help constructing and implementing the webpage.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Cultural Department, City of Lugano in collaboration with IBSA Foundation, as part of Lugano Living Lab
Virtual tourism
It is not possible to travel, tourism specialits are suffering and it probably will last a long period; people need to have distractions.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

Virtually free

Challenge

It is not possible to travel, tourism specialits are suffering and it probably will last a long period; people need to have distractions.

Potential solutions

Virtual tourism with 3D glasses and possibility to do a virtual visit paying entry to museums etc, paying the tourism specialist that gave the opportunity of having the application (he can do the film with a drone also), and also the possibility to order a meal of the place visited, to hear music, to buy souvenirs, and everything is delivered at home. We also can imagine that hotel or planes are places where to do these travels without moving, with odors and sounds of the place visited, meals and souvenirs saled during the virtual visit, etc

Needed resources

Tourism specialists
Apollo 13 - Art in Isolation
Theatre and art-projects in schools and have been cancelled with no replacement online. Artists and art pedagogues are out of work right now, this project should bring this together.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

Children in homeschooling learn math, grammar, etc. With all the homework is not enough room left for creativity, art and theatre. Learning how to be creative with drawings, performances, audio or installations is important also in time of crisis.

Challenge

Theatre and art-projects in schools and have been cancelled with no replacement online. Artists and art pedagogues are out of work right now, this project should bring this together.

Potential solutions

A platform where parents and teachers find inspiring tasks for children, children find and share creativity and enables art and theatre-teachers to continue with their classes online. Children get in contact with and feedback from professional artists and pedagogues.

Needed resources

We are a group of freelance theatre-pedagogues that had the idea and called it Apollo 13 - Art in Isolation. We are collecting ideas from artists and teachers, we know but we need professional help to create the online platform.
Remote Music Lesson
Students no longer attend lessons to learn instruments and their teachers face severe income gaps.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Art & Culture

Context

As a music teacher, I want to have a tool, that helps me to teach my students remotely (also when bandwidth is low)

Challenge

Students no longer attend lessons to learn instruments and their teachers face severe income gaps.

Needed resources

Usability Engineer, Software developer, experience with at last one common music instrument is an asset
Transparency of investments and fundings for a circular economy
How to make sure that the money does not go to the preservation of our linear model but also help to foster the transition to a circular and sustainable economic model?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

States and companies are now investing millions in the preservation of the economy. Only this week, the Swiss government has put together an economic aid package worth about CHF 42 billion, that could be topped up in the next days.

Challenge

How to make sure that the money does not go to the preservation of our linear model but also help to foster the transition to a circular and sustainable economic model?

Potential solutions

Developing an overview of consequent public and private investments and creating transparency on how this money is spent by companies. Some incentives and programs to support companies to make the right investment / development choices.

Needed resources

We have expertise in the Circular Economy and regulatory framework - please reach out for specific resources and reports.
NextNow_blockchain-based solidarity reward solution
We need to generate a solution to continuously drive this "better human behavior" mindset-shift across the globe. And by doing so, decrease human disengagement, frustration (of being isolated, sick or jobless etc.) or even potentials for crimes and revolutions.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

In this unprecendented times solidarity and shift from individual towards a sharing culture of collective thinking/behavior becomes more relevant than ever. Worldwide initiatives are launched and thousands of people engage, support and even work pro bono for a better cause.

Challenge

We need to generate a solution to continuously drive this "better human behavior" mindset-shift across the globe. And by doing so, decrease human disengagement, frustration (of being isolated, sick or jobless etc.) or even potentials for crimes and revolutions.

Potential solutions

Design the "NextNow" reward model based on human behavior and engagement.Tokens (smart contracts) serve as trophies. Everyone can say thanks and give each other feedback on the NextNow App. Once engagement index is tracked, GPS organizations start giving rewards...

Needed resources

Mock-ups (Adobe XD), architecture and first token (ERC20) existing. Require team with desired skills: Senior App Developer, Blockchain Coder (C++/Python/JavaScript. JavaScript/Solidity/GO etc.)
Mobility before, during and after Corona – Bundesamt für Verkehr (BAV)
How does our mobility in Switzerland change during and after the Corona period? How does the choice of transport mode change?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Our mobility behaviour changes in this extraordinary corona situation. We are instructed to stay at home if possible.

Challenge

How does our mobility in Switzerland change during and after the Corona period? How does the choice of transport mode change?

Potential solutions

A visualization that shows how mobility behavior changes would be exciting.

Needed resources

Surveys could be conducted and transaction data analysed.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Bundesamt für Verkehr
How to relaunch tourism after the crisis?
How to bring people back to buy, go to restaurants and other public places, attend events, use public transport and go on holiday (or anything related to tourism) without the fear or skepticism that will obviously continue in part (at least for some people) even when the …

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

The Covid-19 has generated important economic repercussions for the tourism sector: cancelled bookings, uncertainty, liquidity problems.

Challenge

How to bring people back to buy, go to restaurants and other public places, attend events, use public transport and go on holiday (or anything related to tourism) without the fear or skepticism that will obviously continue in part (at least for some people) even when the emergency is over. Also useful are proposals for revenue differentiation (even during the crisis period).

Needed resources

Proposals at product level but also at communication level. Useful best practices (if available).
True Heroes
How do we succeed in anchoring an awareness of the importance of the truly systemically relevant institutions and professions in society?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

The crisis shows which jobs and sectors are actually systemically relevant. This awareness (and the corresponding appreciation) should not be lost even after the crisis.

Challenge

How do we succeed in anchoring an awareness of the importance of the truly systemically relevant institutions and professions in society?

Potential solutions

E.g. crowd-funding of holiday bonuses for everyone who had to work during the crisis; donations of bank bonuses to nursing staff etc.; initiative for remuneration according to systemic relevance; campaign for the "True Heroes" in the media; call for various gratitude actions (random idea e.g.: Guezli for de Güselma)

Needed resources

Innovative, realistic project idea that aims for long-term, systemic impact.
Crisis Learnings for Climate Change
What are system-relevant components for Switzerland to function (learnings form this crisis) and what conclusions can be drawn to be better prepared in the face of an upcoming climate crisis (e.g.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

The crisis shows the leaks we have in our system and supply chains when it comes to a crisis. Climate change will at one point also require a fast systemic adaptation.

Challenge

What are system-relevant components for Switzerland to function (learnings form this crisis) and what conclusions can be drawn to be better prepared in the face of an upcoming climate crisis (e.g. how do we deal with our dependency on oil, gas, food, drugs, workforce from outside Switzerland)?

Potential solutions

E.g. a platform that collects learnings from this crisis, extends it with specific challenges we will face in a climate crisis (contributed by experts) and advocates specific actions that should be taken in order to be better prepared/ready.
On the net to restart
Identify processes and technical solutions to help micro enterprises to "network", i.e.: address the market with products or services that better meet customer needs and find solutions to common problems (accounting, marketing, etc.).

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Micro enterprises (up to 9 employees) have to solve similar problems. Each one looks for solutions and invests resources when they could join forces and share tools (HW and SW) and also human resources.

Challenge

Identify processes and technical solutions to help micro enterprises to "network", i.e.: address the market with products or services that better meet customer needs and find solutions to common problems (accounting, marketing, etc.).
Networks can be between companies in the same sector (horizontal networks) or between companies in different but complementary sectors, for example in tourism (vertical networks).

Potential solutions

Networks of micro and small enterprises are a reality abroad (https://retipmi.it or www.12tomany.it). In Switzerland there are only a few examples in the hotel sector or in vocational training (https://www.berufsbildung.ch/dyn/3553.aspx). Processes and solutions are sought to implement and promote them in Switzerland as well.

Needed resources

We look for processes and ideas to promote trust between companies and their collaboration. Useful to have a list of examples of business networks that work and some companies available to test the model.
Becoming a value society – Blick
Learning from the crisis. That we become a value society again. The main values I count as decency, consideration, tolerance, acceptance and helpfulness. Much more WE and less I!

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

In the present time values like solidarity, consideration etc. are capitalized. What is the situation after the crisis?

Challenge

Learning from the crisis. That we become a value society again. The main values I count as decency, consideration, tolerance, acceptance and helpfulness. Much more WE and less I!

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by the "Blick voting".
Out of the economic depression with an infrastructure program focusing on renewable energy sources
How can we initiate an infrastructure program (or at least part of one) that helps the economy out of the Corona crisis and paves the way for a sustainable and renewable energy future?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Because of the Corona Virus, I am not just expecting a recession, but a depression. Ways out of such an economic crisis are often infrastructure programs. I also see the Corona crisis as an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis more aggressively. To achieve the energy transition, we need to activate more renewable energy sources.

Challenge

How can we initiate an infrastructure program (or at least part of one) that helps the economy out of the Corona crisis and paves the way for a sustainable and renewable energy future? // Wie können wir ein Infrastrukturprogramm (oder zumindest einen Teil davon) initiieren, welches der Wirtschaft aus der Corona-Krise hilft und die Wege in eine nachhaltige und erneuerbare Energiezukunft ebnet?

Potential solutions

I believe it would be interesting to identify barriers that currently exist on the way to build up more renewable energy sources. On one end there are regulatory aspects and maybe missing incentives. Who is responsible for setting those incentives? How can we reach them and motivate them to change regulation so that renewables can grow? On the other end there are different actors that could be potentially involved in the process: land owners, roof owners, home owners, planners, architects, builders, children, PV specialists, another important group I may not have thought of. How could processes to build more renewables be made easier. How can information on e. g. PV potential, funding, how to get it done be well connected to help renewable energy sources grow. On one hand we would do something against climate change on the other hand we can create a lot of jobs in this sector and help to get the economy going again.
Back to immunization
How do we inform community and parents to return back for immunization and also train health workers on vaccinating children who are behind schedule due to Coronavirus shutdown

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

After the virus in gone, people may not know that it is safe to bring children for vaccination

Challenge

How do we inform community and parents to return back for immunization and also train health workers on vaccinating children who are behind schedule due to Coronavirus shutdown

Potential solutions

Key messages for community and parents. Training materials for Health workers

Needed resources

I have the WHO suggested immunization schedule but I need communication and training experts to convert them into key messages
Beyond GDP idea on companies
How could we advocate a system with a multi-dimentional understanding and evaluation of companies' relevance, that includes more than

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

The crisis shows that a company's relevance does not reflect in their sales and net worth only. There are other components just as important, such as whether they serve fundamental human needs, incude longterm sustainability, contribute to peoples well beeing (social entrepreurship) etc.

Challenge

How could we advocate a system with a multi-dimentional understanding and evaluation of companies' relevance, that includes more than

Potential solutions

EU Commition: "The Beyond GDP initiative is about developing indicators that are as clear and appealing as GDP, but more inclusive of environmental and social aspects of progress". How could we adapt this idea to our market and companies and work towards its implementation?

Needed resources

concept of an innovative, realistic long term idea
Crisis backlog - Identification & prioritization of necessities
How to help people (Doctors, citizens, entrepreneurs ...) to raise their need? evaluate the criticality? How to help authorities (government, NGO, management in other organization) to ease the prioritization?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Due to the crisis, people (doctors, citizens, entrepreneurs ...) identify day-to-days new issues or requirements. They need to raise them, to allow the authorities to identify and evaluate what is happening. Thus those last ones would be able to prioritize the requests for covering them in time.

Challenge

How to help people (Doctors, citizens, entrepreneurs ...) to raise their need? evaluate the criticality?
How to help authorities (government, NGO, management in other organization) to ease the prioritization?

Potential solutions

An accessible & ergonomic App/website to collect and prioritize the problem encountered by people (eg. Decidim) feeding a crisis backlog.
Anybody can vote for the problems they identify as important.

Needed resources

Risk analysis, Humanitarian & Administration, Lean/Agile & process skills, Analytics or Data sciences skills, App designer UX/UI
Future-fit economies and society: From the activities and behaviors adopted during the crisis, which ones do we want to keep and develop post-Covid-19?
Creating tools to facilitate and enable climate-positive and future-fit activities and behaviors post- Covid-19? #resourceconsciousliving Lifestyle areas: mobility, tourism, food, living & energy, non-food consumption
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: After the Crisis

Context

During the crisis we witnessed a strengthening of social networks/ neighbourhoods, increased use of virtual connections tools (overcoming resistance to new ways of connecting) and growth of available educational information on how to live well with less (e.g. travel, information overload, consumption of non-essential items) whilst spending more time with nuclear family, hobbies or decluttering our lives.

Inspiration: https://www.horx.com/48-die-welt-nach-corona/

Challenge

Creating tools to facilitate and enable climate-positive and future-fit activities and behaviors post- Covid-19? #resourceconsciousliving
Lifestyle areas: mobility, tourism, food, living & energy, non-food consumption

Potential solutions

Examples:
- https://www.emmas.app/ (Sustainable regional shopping)
- https://neighborexpress.org/ or https://gemeinschaft.online/ - helping vulnerable people in the neighbourhood. Can we adapt this to a post Covid-19 society to maintain strong communities?
- https://dontcancelgodigital.heysummit.com/# - Featured sessions could be adapted for possible solutions
- https://2gather.jetzt/
- https://jobs4refugees.force.com/j4rportal/s/jobsearch?language=de
Needed resources

Depending on the type of solution the team would like to develop, the partners may be different.
We would like a solution which can be integrated with all lifestyles and become integral, incredibly convenient with people-centred design. It should not be “just another app” but one with high potential for integration into their everyday even after the crisis. Please think of where it should be used to reach a maximum amount of people. It does not have to cover all sectors but can select one. It’s important that the solution will have a high acceptance also after the crisis.
Let's take the opportunity to change ... at last!
How can we take advantage of this period during which we can no longer go to the shops to learn to identify our real needs, to realize the damage that current consumption is doing to the environment but also the stress it brings to our lives (earning enough to buy the latest …

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Our consumption has a price, a high price, which is not only the one we pay at the cash register. A price for our planet above all: wasted precious raw materials, grey energy, pollution, and not forgetting the tons of waste that often end up in nature. And a price for our quality of life: we have to earn more and more money to be able to consume more and more. The stands that advertising shows us push us to change our clothes and the objects we use all the time. In order to be "fashionable" we have to keep up. What a stress! What if we learn to define our real needs? What if we tried to determine what our real values are? What makes us really happy? What if we gave our lives a little more peace and quiet, if we stopped running? How about taking a little more care of our planet?

Challenge

How can we take advantage of this period during which we can no longer go to the shops to learn to identify our real needs, to realize the damage that current consumption is doing to the environment but also the stress it brings to our lives (earning enough to buy the latest model, being fashionable, etc.). How can we take advantage of the confinement, this free time we have and especially what we live and experience, to reflect, to prepare ourselves to change our consumption patterns when we can go out and the shops will be open again.

Potential solutions

We don't have a solution. We are already setting up awareness projects, even before this period. But this is a forced experience that people go through that can help open their eyes! We must take advantage of this opportunity. This can be for children (education) but above all for everyone.

Needed resources

This challenge is general and can lead to many concrete ideas. So it is impossible to list needs at this stage.
What can we learn from Covid and how can we transform these learnings?
How can we transform C19 learnings of solidarity and behaviour into ordinary times, such as washing hands regularly, staying at home when you feel flu symptoms and government information on what is happening?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

In order to prevent Covid from spreading too fast and in order to protect risk groups, we took a variety of measures such as staying at home when feeling sick, social distancing, washing hands regularly and sneezing/coughing in the elbow. During the regular flu season (and other instances), we could apply the same measures. Not only would society in general benefit from this, but also could companies reduce their risk of too many employees being sick at the same time, reduce health costs (for everyone) because less people are sick and finally, reduce stress of employees because they have to jump in for their colleagues.

Challenge

How can we transform C19 learnings of solidarity and behaviour into ordinary times, such as washing hands regularly, staying at home when you feel flu symptoms and government information on what is happening?

Needed resources

nothing specific.
Making Swiss Food Great Again: A challenge for Farmers, Gardeners, and everyone
1-Farmers: How to support their livelihoods whilst keeping nature healthy? 2-People don’t know what to buy with a clean conscience. With Corona, many have started to buy more locally & launched urban gardens, but don’t know much about growing food.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Covid-19 makes us feel the risks of our globalized food system. Switzerland is only 56% self-sufficient and our diets are bad for the climate. But still, local farmers are struggling to sell their produce due to restaurant closures.

Challenge

1-Farmers: How to support their livelihoods whilst keeping nature healthy?
2-People don’t know what to buy with a clean conscience. With Corona, many have started to buy more locally & launched urban gardens, but don’t know much about growing food.

Potential solutions

1-Farmers: agroecology, solidarity & regenerative agriculture are promising solutions, but haven’t been able to go beyond niche markets in CH. How could we help to boost these approaches?
2-Fun educative material in swiss languages & supporting kits “for dummies”

Needed resources
1. Additional ideas for potential solutions! 2) Expertise on food growing & agroecology from A-Z: soil/compost, seed, how & where & when to plant, pests&nutrients, seedlings, growing phase, harvest, and: what to do with the food once harvested? 3) Potential implementing partners
Local Food For All – Centre for Development and Environment, Universität Bern
How can the positive effects (higher demand for farmers produce directly from farm) on sustainble products (i.e. vegetables) be moved into the times after Corona? How can we foster better structures for direct marketing to support this demand in the future?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Half of all vegetables and fruits consumed in Switzerland are imported, although some studies have shown that Switzerland could be self-sufficient. Regarding goods, like in the majority of Europe’s countries, supply chains are spread out all over the globe, leading to high emission rates, lack of transparency and interdependencies for nations and economy.
Local, high-quality and fresh food producers can hardly compete with supermarkets, whose cheapest prices are enabled by a highly globalised economy. During this crisis specifically, small and medium enterprises are suffering even more as access to local food sources has been restricted. How can we increase the accessibility of local, seasonal, equitable and sustainable food for consumers as well as reduce food waste, both during and after the crisis?
Due to Corona, normal functioning of supply chains is not given anymore because of missing field workers from abroad, higher demand on certain products, and unforseeable food price fluctuations on international markets.

Challenge

How can the positive effects (higher demand for farmers produce directly from farm) on sustainble products (i.e. vegetables) be moved into the times after Corona? How can we foster better structures for direct marketing to support this demand in the future?
How can we support the relocalization of production in order to decrease impact on the environment and empower local producers, while giving Swiss citizens better access to qualitative food and goods?
Ensuring that local producers' supply can meet the consumers' demand by creating diverse and innovative distribution channels. Ensuring that consumers have consistent, easy and affordable access to high-quality fresh food.

Potential solutions

Different solutiosn have been suggested:
- An example could be to create an overview of products, classifying them according to the amount of kilometer they have been produced from and give consumers incentives to choose the ones produced closer to their homes. Another example can be the creation of micro-factories around the world.
- Ensuring that local producers' supply can meet the consumers' demand by creating diverse and innovative distribution channels. Ensuring that consumers have consistent, easy and affordable access to high-quality fresh food.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- We have a set of experts in the Circular Economy and food topic. We don’t have any concrete idea material for this challenge yet but would like to emphasize the importance of the topic - please contact us for specific reports or information.
- Supermarkets and farmers as implementation partners, datasets of their respective inventories.
- Contacts with farmers and others who have good functioning structures. Data about producers who cannot sale their products and the moment (countrywide). Own knowledge about alternative supply chains.
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern
Economic independence
Independence of Switzerland with regard to supply chains in relation to other countries. In some cases, this would create more jobs for less well-trained employees who would fall victim to digitisation.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

Does it make more sense in the future to retain or bring back relevant economic sectors in Switzerland in order to guarantee the necessary supply chains

Challenge

Independence of Switzerland with regard to supply chains in relation to other countries. In some cases, this would create more jobs for less well-trained employees who would fall victim to digitisation.

Potential solutions

Instead of social benefits for the unemployed, such jobs could be subsidised (under strict conditions of course).
Functioning health system after the crisis
A health system that continues to function after the crisis. This is because I fear that many people in the health professions - especially hospitals - will fall into a state of exhaustion depression (burnout) and thus will no longer be able to work or only to a lesser extent.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: After the Crisis

Context

At the moment, people in health care professions are doing an enormous amount.

Challenge

A health system that continues to function after the crisis. This is because I fear that many people in the health professions - especially hospitals - will fall into a state of exhaustion depression (burnout) and thus will no longer be able to work or only to a lesser extent. As a result, psychiatry is demanding increased benefits (treatment of burnout), which unfortunately are increasingly not covered by insurance.
Stop GAFA Depedency
Our data must stay in Switzerland!

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

Containment has given even more power to the GAFA, holders of the massively used applications for work or entertainment. Our smartphones = work and communication tools but also spyware.

Challenge

Our data must stay in Switzerland!

Potential solutions

The "Swiss Valley" and a robust digital policy must be developed.
Platform of security companies at the service of the cantons
The cantons do not know where to address requests for security guards.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

The cantons must quickly commission security companies to provide a variety of services, including police support.

Challenge

The cantons do not know where to address requests for security guards.

Potential solutions

a platform that informs in real time of the number of agents available per canton for a limited number of services

Needed resources

We have a list of services, rates, number of agents at time T, general conditions but we need an online platform that can work for the cantons and that can be updated at any time.
Shelter Application
Urgently needed shelters are currently lacking. Furthermore, apartments and tourist accommodation are vacant, which could be used as a temporary solution.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

Whole families must remain at home in isolation. Tensions between couples are increasing and with them the incidence of domestic violence.

Challenge

Urgently needed shelters are currently lacking. Furthermore, apartments and tourist accommodation are vacant, which could be used as a temporary solution. The two target groups - victims of domestic violence and real estate managers respectively operators of tourist accommodation - are to be mediated between each other.

Potential solutions

An anonymous online platform which can be used exclusively by the target groups. This means that offenders must not have access to the locations of the shelters. For example, the administrative staff of sheltered housing facilities could be considered as intermediaries (at present probably by phone).

Needed resources

Contact details of sheltered housing facilities in Switzerland. Their administration staff is at best also tester of the software. Additionally, it should be clarified where the need exists to provide an empty apartment or tourist accommodation for our purpose.
immune helping hand for kids in (potentially) violent families – Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
The children of these families should be looked after by others for a few hours a week. There should be one trustworthy, stress-resistant, immune person per family who is selected, monitored and advised by an authority.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

Because of Corona, most children are always at home and should also do their homework. Certain parents are overburdened and react with violence against their children. Domestic violence can be reduced if the parents can recover from their children for a few hours a week.

Challenge

The children of these families should be looked after by others for a few hours a week. There should be one trustworthy, stress-resistant, immune person per family who is selected, monitored and advised by an authority. A place for the care would have to be found (empty gymnasiums, kindergartens), which afterwards may no longer be used for the lifetime of the viruses. How to find matches between families, volunteers, the authority and the place?

Potential solutions

Families could be found through the KESB, this could possibly also be the competent authority, places could be school facilities. The challenge is to find and identify the immune volunteers.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
A Super-Nanny-Date to prevent domestic violence – Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
How can overburdened or specially challenged parents in the corona crisis get support and relief in education without physical contact? In concrete terms: Which authorities and institutions have competent personnel for such a task?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

Overworked parents are currently not relieved by babysitters, grandparents etc. They have to take care of their partly very demanding children on their own. This can lead to physical and psychological violence against the children.

Challenge

How can overburdened or specially challenged parents in the corona crisis get support and relief in education without physical contact?
In concrete terms: Which authorities and institutions have competent personnel for such a task? How can families be found who want or should accept this offer? How can this family be technically equipped to enable online dating and who pays for it?

Potential solutions

Parents have regular on-screen dates with an educational consultant (Super Nanny). There, parents and children can talk about how things are going. The counsellor can also arrange a date just with the child and keep him or her busy for a while. The family receives support, has a structure through the regular dates, can discuss challenges, prevent crises and the parents have an adult counterpart who listens to their problems with the child and takes them seriously.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
Second home as shelter for victims of violence – Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
How and where can the women's shelters accommodate women and children affected by violence when their houses are full or when the people affected by violence are risk patients? Which additional professionals could take care of these people and under what conditions?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

The women's shelters in Switzerland have too few places (frauenhaus-schweiz.ch) and domestic violence is already a major problem in our country even without Corona (see also csvd.ch).

Challenge

How and where can the women's shelters accommodate women and children affected by violence when their houses are full or when the people affected by violence are risk patients? Which additional professionals could take care of these people and under what conditions?

Potential solutions

There are many people in Switzerland with a second home or an additional shared room at the place of work etc. It would be necessary to find out which of these people would agree to make their accommodation temporarily available to people affected by violence.
Perhaps there would be people among the prospective psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists or social workers who would volunteer to work under the supervision of their training centre.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Schweizerische Kriminalprävention
Prevention of domestic violence
What can be done to prevent an increase in spousal or family violence (verbal or physical)? What support is available in case of difficulty? How can we help people experiencing violence? How can we provide adequate Council?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Crime Reduction

Context

Due to the stress at home, the current situation might lead to an increase in domestic violence. People are increasingly more stressed. Anxiety, anger, financial difficulties, restricted spaces can lead to more people being exposed to domestic violence.
Calling for help (ex. a helpline) is more difficult their perpetrators are always closeby.

Challenge

What can be done to prevent an increase in spousal or family violence (verbal or physical)? What support is available in case of difficulty? How can we help people experiencing violence? How can we provide adequate Council?

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Ex. Merkblatt für Männer unter Druck https://www.maenner.ch/coronakrise-merkblatt/
- Help people avoid stress, develop interventions increase reports, offer therapy, assist with coping etc. Ex. Switzerland, Pia Allemann von Opferberatungsstelle Zürich
https://daslamm.ch/wir-rechnen-fest-mit-einer-zunahme-haeuslicher-gewalt/. Ex. international: Council of Europe, Secretary General https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/covid-19-crisis-secretary-general-concerned-about-increased-risk-of-domestic-violence
- Hotline
- How to reach the persons concerned, how to organise quick and accessible exchange of regional and network solutions.
- Coordinate federal solutions & implementing experts in the field
Needed resources

Several resources have been requested:
- Expertise in prevention of violence, victim support, social work, psychological therapy etc.
- Further resources that can be helpful: Papers, RCT, pilots, ideas on already established interventions
Self Diagnosis
How can we get an idea of how many people might have the virus which will not be tested? Crowd source illness reports to aid an early warning system for governments and the population. Create a devide, or transform the mobile phone as device to detect virus in our body.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Many people think they may have COVID-19 but can't get tested. Some scared people tend to go to Hospital/Doctor even when they are not "sick enough", causing overload of sanitary system and increasing risks. Some other people are almost asymptomatic and during this crisis there have been significant cases of people arriving at the Hospital either too late or when the disease status was already very advanced, causing extra need for care or extra fatalities. Any information that reduced their uncertainty would be extremely welcome. Government cannot test all 8.5M people and testing is a key prevention/treatment method.

Challenge

How can we get an idea of how many people might have the virus which will not be tested? Crowd source illness reports to aid an early warning system for governments and the population. Create a devide, or transform the mobile phone as device to detect virus in our body. Allow people to perform medical grade screening at home by mean of a mobile medical device connected to smartphone. It should be possible to build an online self-diagnosis app that gives a rough indication of how likely you are to have COVID-19. If the app says the probability is high, it will be easier to get a real test. Achieve scale in testing (with some confidence) across Switzerland so BAG can be more effective in isolating, treating and preventing spread.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Simple app for people to log themselves (limited PII), view data around them and larger orgs to calculate impacts through dashboards.
- look forward for futuristic minds who can create the way to transform the mobile phone, or a small device connected to the m. phone, in order to have immediate results also to share
- Medical Device capable to perform auscultation (to diagnose lung status), SpO2, temp and cough/hour measures. Device shall be bought just like today we do with thermometer or blood pressure. System shall be able to work on 2 levels: 1) self-assessment 2) Physician based data interpretation, remote reporting, small-fee based. No contact, no risk of infection, no loss of time for handling and patient preparation. Physician can just have all the data at glance, and look at evolution in the last days/hours.
- Telehealth mobile application (app) with specific short questions for user i.e. risk groups and professionals in contact with risk groups (e.g. home care givers).
- App that self-tests individuals based on medical symptoms, historical geo location, etc. then recommends what to do e.g. go for real test, stay at home, eating habits, etc.
- I envision a crowd-sourcing/machine learning approach. People who have had a test and know their status can upload material to a site, which accumulates a database of examples. The data is used to train machine learning classifiers. As the database grows, the quality will improve.
- Self-registration app with symptoms tracking and prediction of course of disease and potential hospitalisation
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- I have a system to utilize graph db and build appropriate API’s. Require Frontend Devs, visualization and thinkers. Make it attractive to use.
- we need somebody in engeneering, cad and product development, data analysis
- Investment support to bring tele-medicine to a new level. South Korea was able to avoid lock-down because they massively invested in tech during past SARS.
- The team would need medical, social and digital expertise.
- Need developers if app, Decision tree based on symptoms, Access to data from telecom or phone geo location (while ensuring privacy), Home treatment (e.g. for strengthening immune system), etc.
- A basic version could be implemented quickly by a small team (~6-8 people) which combined web application developers, machine learning experts and doctors.
- bright minds, app developers, data analysing
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

A similar challenge (without a suggested solution) has been has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Using serological test results – Genève Lab (République et canton de Genève)
The need is for a system that can communicate the result of the serological test to the patient being tested and that can be used for identification purposes.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

This challenge is based on the existence of a serological test to determine a person's immunity (through the presence of antibodies) to COVID-19.

Challenge

The need is for a system that can communicate the result of the serological test to the patient being tested and that can be used for identification purposes. For example, this would allow the immunized person to return to work or to interact with specific groups, particularly at risk groups.

Needed resources

The solution should ideally include a draft process, a communication strategy, an evaluation of risks and a tool. This system should be reliable, ultra-secure and should comply with the legal provisions on data protection.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Genève Lab (State of Geneva)
UV Versus Virus
How to implement a full project of UV-disinfection (on any kind of level)?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

A lot of infrastructures risk now to be considered contaminated (Transports, hospitals, money, workplaces, schools, elderly institutions...) and it is difficult to dsterilizeisinfect these objects or places. Investigations of the Robert Koch Institute have shown that the infectivity of SARS-CoV (not Sars-CoV-2!) could be reliably reduced by using UVC radiation. (see https://www.bioclimatic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Gutachten%20Viroxx%20SARS_DE.pdf.

Challenge

How to implement a full project of UV-disinfection (on any kind of level)?

Potential solutions

Several solutions of implementations have been suggested:
- Appropriate measures are to be taken in future to prevent viruses and bacteria from being transmitted through the use of trays at airport security checkpoints. Sketch a technical solution integrated into the security control lines of airports to prevent the transmission of viruses and bacteria.
- Envision a string of 'christmas lights' except instead of regular LED's, using UV-C LED's, placed within a cash register, allowing automatic sterilization of money.
- China is currently disinfecting buses and transports this way. Some of my ideas include: 1) Teams of trained cleaners with portable 360° UV Lamps 2) UV-Rooms for decontamination of protective gear, masks, clothing and any materials... 3) UV-Robots or UV-Drones that could clean rooms and hallways...
- We are already building a prototype next week (total 10m) of LED aluminum profile (made in Switzerland) with UVC LED chips (imported express - arrive Monday 30.3). we need more production facilities, technical staff or scientists. our partner has over 10 years of experience in luminary manufacturing in Switzerland, mainly custom build solutions. application can be also for military disinfection purposes.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- The help of all kind of domains would be necessary (UV lamps manufacturers, project managers, engineers, logistic specialists, organisation specialists, cleaning teams and training specialists, Swiss Authorities, Civil Protection, health dpt...).
- Lab and authorities, manufacturer of UV light lamps (mobile ones).
- Contacts to hospitals or public transportation, possible production partners or industry manufacturer for UVC sterilization robots, we can provide the LED technology.
Solutions to encourage COVID-19 positive people or exposed people to comply with auto-isolation rules. – Genève Lab (République et canton de Genève)
How can we encourage (with positive incentives) new COVID+ or exposed individuals to voluntarily comply with self-isolation rules, after the peak of the epidemic, while the general confinement will be progressively relaxed for the rest of the population?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

After the first epidemic wave, there will be a progressive ending of the confinement. To prevent a second wave, it will be essential that specific individuals (new tested COVID-19 positive people or exposed individuals) comply with auto-isolation rules. Ideally, this should take place without coercive measures.

Challenge

How can we encourage (with positive incentives) new COVID+ or exposed individuals to voluntarily comply with self-isolation rules, after the peak of the epidemic, while the general confinement will be progressively relaxed for the rest of the population?

Potential solutions

Ideally, the proposed solution will contain the following elements: 1) a cartography of relevant population groups with their needs and an evaluation of their risk of non-confinement respect; 2) a corresponding listing of actions or ideas to fill these needs and to incentivize them to stay strictly at home, including for each action or idea its target group, an evaluation of the efficacy of the measures, a (rough) evaluation of the cost and a proposed communication strategy. It must be possible to fully implement the proposed solution within 3-4 weeks.

Needed resources

The solution may contain examples, references to successful initiatives abroad. If possible, it should be based on user research (for instance through a survey, including of past COVID-19 self-isolated patients or suspected patients in regard to their needs in self-isolation). Creative solutions, cheap, and easily implementable are welcome.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Genève Lab (State of Geneva)
Stop sending sick people to Work
These people need help to transition to homeoffice. It is important to find risk groups of this problem and simultainiously find a solution to their problem.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

There are still workforces in in understaffed jobs which cannot stay at home if they're sick.

Challenge

These people need help to transition to homeoffice. It is important to find risk groups of this problem and simultainiously find a solution to their problem.

Needed resources

Experts in the field (maybe HR people)
Gamified social distancing
People who act responsibly about COVID-19 often report feeling frustrated when they see other people behaving less responsibly. We want some way to make the difference between responsible and irresponsible behaviour more visible.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

People who act responsibly and stay at home/avoid contact need to feel rewarded.

Challenge

People who act responsibly about COVID-19 often report feeling frustrated when they see other people behaving less responsibly. We want some way to make the difference between responsible and irresponsible behaviour more visible.

Potential solutions

A gamified website could be built where people enter data each day about how they are following social distancing guidelines (how much they went out, how much contact with other people). You can compare yourself against other members of the site (e.g. "you are in the 83rd percentile, good!"). You can get points and badges.

Needed resources

This could be built by a small team (~3-6 people) with experience in web development and gamification.
Hydroalcoholic gel for everyone
To provide each citizen, each person, with a personal bottle of hydroalcoholic gel, and to organize a way to fill it in a simple and safe way, close to the place where they live. This in a way that respects the principle of equity between everyone.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Part of the population did not stockpile hydro-alcoholic gel before the shortage. Although handwashing with soap is the first solution to prevent the spread of the virus through contact with surfaces, there are situations where this is not possible outside the home, in common areas, shops, post offices, pharmacies, etc... In this case, personal hydroalcoholic gel is a protective solution. However, it is no longer possible to obtain it in a fair way.

Challenge

To provide each citizen, each person, with a personal bottle of hydroalcoholic gel, and to organize a way to fill it in a simple and safe way, close to the place where they live. This in a way that respects the principle of equity between everyone.

Potential solutions

The communes could, in collaboration with a local shop or pharmacy, take care of distribution and supply.

Needed resources

Manufacturers and distributors, cantons, municipalities, shops or pharmacies
Tracing App
How can a more efficient contact tracing of positive cases be pursued, taking into account fundamental rights (consider different aspects: technological solutions vs. governance issues vs. attitudes and behaviour). What might an international or cross-border solution look like?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

We often don't know how close we are to the spread of infection and what are the chances of us contracting it, hence we don't often take the necessary precautions. Asymptomatic people can infect others. It is often difficult to identify all people in contact with an infected person.

Challenge

How can a more efficient contact tracing of positive cases be pursued, taking into account fundamental rights (consider different aspects: technological solutions vs. governance issues vs. attitudes and behaviour). What might an international or cross-border solution look like?

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Use the Singapore gov approach
- Code is available open source. See bluetrace dot io and google for trace together.
- We propose an app which notifies the user of the instances of COVID-19 spreading in their locality and precautions to be taken, by forming clusters of the cases and testing whether the user’s location lies in those through various heuristics.
A mobile App which tracks your health and exposure to others, alerting you if your risk of exposure changes because of your health or if you've been exposed to infected people or places.
- Solution is a phone application that uses Bluetooth to detect which phones were within 6 feet range and for how long. All phones then remember that information. If one phone owner gets COVID-19, the others that were tagged are informed.
- Mobile APP: using Bluetooth (BLE) phone technology, sending a beacon which is an HASH of the MAC address of BT phone interface. APP scans for beacon around and sends a daily report of other MAC met. In case of positive person, all the MACs are notified. Impossible to rebuild people identity, instant in notifying the network of people at risk. No action required by the user.
- It would be great to have an easy app, where i can live give in the names of the persons, which had contact to me. These contacts remain saved within 14 days. Also the numbers of the people are saved, so I can write automated a selfmade message, if I'm sick or I'm tested positive on Corona. On reason for Data protection, the app works only local. The user has to write the info message bit himself.
anonymous GPS and BLE beacon monitoring (elderly people). Main user screen consists of one button to report feeling unwell. Doctors confirms alarms notifying all people who have been in contact for at least 5 minutes in the last 6 days with the “positive man”
- Develop a smart-phone app to make users aware of infected or exposed in proximity. In addition, trace contacts based on movement.
This challenge could be achieved using mobile phones and their Bluetooth functionalities, with a method that protects the privacy of users. This is a difficult problem, but there are several solutions that have been developed, notably in Singapore and South Korea. An analysis of these tools and their applicability in Switzerland could be interesting.
- Any comon smartphone can track movement of its user via GPS and WLAN. As long as the user is healthy, there is no need to reveal his location. If a user shows symptoms the location of the last e.g. 3 days before can be "published" anonymously. Zero-Knowledge-Proof might be a concept here. Home adress should be excluded. The app compares the private track of the last e.g. 14 days to the published tracks and returns the result. User respond frequently: 1 healthy, 2 symptoms, but no test result, 3 pos. test. Extensions can be analysis of private risk bad on behavior, aggregated data for other stakeholders, upload of Google tracking for joiners, adding locations manually, ...
- Develop a data governance framework
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Singapore Trace App Open Source https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/coronavirus-spore-government-to-make-its-contact-tracing-app-freely-available-to
- Translation, Build the app for Switzerland, discuss with mobile providers, security
- We would be scraping data from twitter about the occurrences of the disease as well as using datasets made available by JHU and Google. We would be needing expertise in front-end development and deep learning for NLP.
- The App is developed, enhancements to follow. The server side still needs further development using IBM Cloud, JanusGraph, Tinkerpop and machine learning. Engineers Needed.
- An android, iOS, and backend software developer.
- 1-2 APP developers (iOS and Android), + 1 BackEnd programmer. I can offer project architecture, mgmt and DB design
- I made something for me (with an excel like table) but I have no Idea (and experience) how to make an Smartphone app for this.. also I have no automated message service for me... It would be great to find e solution, everybody can easy use. Maybe it could also be web based. This app would be a build from the ground.
- programmers with android/iOS : GPS monitoring + BLE beacon detection + Firebase database + Push notification. Google cloud project already and Firebase database alerady available. 1000 beacons for elderly paople already available.
- "app developers, public health experts, data privacy expert
- openly available COVID-19 app from Taiwan"
- Mobile app designer, security and data privacy expert, lawyer, tech reviewer, etc.
- Mobile developer, usability engineer, data scientist, data security expert
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

A similar challenge (without a suggested solution) has been has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Donate Detailed Data for Microsimulations - Anonymously
Get to much more precise simulations of what is going on, allowing precise and deeply informed action. Based on much more data that simple demographics and beyond mere differential equations as models.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Existing simulations seem to be simplistic models with few variables. Detailed data from people about their (normal) daily behavioural patterns can help micro-simulate Switzerland's population in detail and thus help much better predict the outcome of measures: scenarios against the pandemic. A chatbot app asks a large number of simple and related questions about how a person usually interacts with her/his environment. The data are anonymous, no identifying information is asked. It is fed into a microsimulation.

Challenge

Get to much more precise simulations of what is going on, allowing precise and deeply informed action. Based on much more data that simple demographics and beyond mere differential equations as models.

Potential solutions

Create an elaborate but simple chatbot app that asks friendly questions, many of them, building on each other, giving a behavioral pattern of people and how they live, work, travel, cough, sneeze, desinfect, touch things, walk past others, cope, work, etc. All without asking identifying details data. Only sending this data once the user decides to donate them. The model is based on simple logic. The app should evolve by providing fair feedback of information.
Create a related microsimulation that uses the data to simulate actual movements, people and object encounters, etc.

Needed resources

App developers iOS, Android, probably Flutter. Backend developers. Simulation specialists at some point.
Battalion AI
Ensuring customized quarantine in the early stages to prevent the spread by using Machine Learning to predict pot. infected patients and areas. Our Idea: https://devpost.com/software/cbb-covid-s-big-brother

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Predicting the next outbreak using GPS data along with commuting channels.

Challenge

Ensuring customized quarantine in the early stages to prevent the spread by using Machine Learning to predict pot. infected patients and areas. Our Idea: https://devpost.com/software/cbb-covid-s-big-brother

Potential solutions

Using the GPS Data of the current infected patient and getting access to the mobility channel information (how many people used the train, etc.) we can predict which individuals are high likely to be infected. Next to highlighting infectious areas.

Needed resources

GPS Data from Zurich from the 01.01.2020 including the highlighting the IMEA (Mobile ID) of the infected patients. Mobility Channel (how many trains were departing from HB including the people on board (narrowing down with the Swisspass).
It doesn't just happen to other people!
Non-adoption of appropriate gestures and adoption of inappropriate behaviours. How can this be remedied?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Lack of preparation and anticipation for the arrival of a health crisis in our country

Challenge

Non-adoption of appropriate gestures and adoption of inappropriate behaviours. How can this be remedied?

Potential solutions

Information/education, empowerment (all audiences: school, business, private, etc.) to be adapted to the audience

Needed resources

Multidisciplinary team for materials development and access to one of the target audiences to test the intervention and materials.
Corona Country Timeline
In order to predict and estimate the impact and budget needed for COVID-19 control measures, we need to quantify how the timing and severity of different epidemic control interventions have impacted the trajectory of COVID-19 in different countries.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

HE2RO is modelling COVID-19 transmission and intervention impact and costs for the South African population. With only 54% of 7.7 million people living with HIV/Aids on HIV treatment and virally suppressed, South Africa has a large immunocompromised population with an anticipated high risk of COVID-19 acquisition.

Challenge

In order to predict and estimate the impact and budget needed for COVID-19 control measures, we need to quantify how the timing and severity of different epidemic control interventions have impacted the trajectory of COVID-19 in different countries.

Potential solutions

Construct a timeline of country specific interventions (mass testing, travel restrictions, city-, regional- and national-lockdowns, school close downs) using a text-mining and/or natural language processor based solution for non-academic data sources.

Needed resources

We have pre-determined search categories and need programmers and/or software engineers to build an information extraction model that would allow us to identify the relevant events and dates from news reports and official governmental press releases
Hotspots & Heat Maps
We only assume the real hotspots for dissemination. Restaurants, offices and schools are shut down while jogging trails, supermarkets and public transport are not. Are our underlying assumptions correct? We must understand the mechanisms of dissemination at a larger scale.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

The virus spread is contingent on lifestyles factors and characteristics of communities. The limitation of interpersonal relationships decreases societal trust, is weakening economy and disrupting societies. We know how the virus disseminates from one individual to another however we lack the detailed knowledge how it disseminates within society. Thus, the safest option seems to enforce general social distancing. Alternatively, how about smart distancing?

Challenge

We only assume the real hotspots for dissemination. Restaurants, offices and schools are shut down while jogging trails, supermarkets and public transport are not. Are our underlying assumptions correct? We must understand the mechanisms of dissemination at a larger scale. Establishing an environment of confidence and trust for the individual while supporting communal efforts to improve on managing and overcoming the current crisis.
Identifying safe social contours that minimize risk of infection to allow for public reintegration and re-energizing the economy to rebuild community relationships.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- 1) Creating mobility tracking GPS-App with voluntary participation 2) Collecting the anonymous data3) Assembling collected data to macro level moving patterns4) People reporting if being infected5) Big Data: Time spent at a certain hotspot vs being infected
- Provide a secure crowd tracking environment allowing for continued recording of individual symptoms. Pool the data to create geographic heat maps and in parallel pinpoint shifts in personal wellbeing.
- Modelling lifestyles from questionnaire results we are collecting, and identifying “social contours” (areas outside pandemic risk zones) to allow trusted societal integration at variable safe proximity. Restarting services, economic industry, leisure and socialization important to thriving communities.
- Fever and coughs are predictors for influenza-like illnesses. Researchers (FluSense) showed that people counting with infrared cameras and cough monitoring with microphones can predict illnesses. Is this adaptable for large scale epidemic tracking?
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Steps 1)-3) could be taken over from the Research project "MOBIS" about mobility behavior in Switzerland. Step 4) needs “only” honest people. Step 5) is the real challenge: Requirement of both AI/Big Data implementers and generalists to evaluate the results.
- Project Management / UX/UI / Web development / Data analytics / Upscaling backend
- We need experts from different fields (ex. bioethics, computational biology, SHS) to analyze results of a questionnaire about lifestyles from which we can create social network graphs, identify areas of risk, model social factors and virus characteristics of spread with causal diagrams. We'll use the resources to map social contours and interrupt the pathways of transmission.
- Infineon has high performance microphones and partners, algorithm - machine learning expertise is needed; datasets (audio if microphones are to be used); implementation partners (system integrators); expertise with IR cameras for fever measuring
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

A similar challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
AI to detect COVID-19 from cough sound recordings
Every coughing person shall be able to get tested at zero costs directly from home.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Not enough people are getting tested for COVID-19.

Challenge

Every coughing person shall be able to get tested at zero costs directly from home.

Potential solutions

An AI detects how likely you have COVID-19 simply from your cough sound recording. We won the #codevscovid19 hackathon this weekend with detect-now.org – now we want you to continue build on this open source project and make it available to a broader audience soon!

Needed resources

During the #codevscovid19 we collected already over 200 cough sound recordings and built some prediction models with deep learning. You can build on that, potentially collect more (ideally verified) data and improve the algorithm and the tool.
Collecting and evaluating the impact of control measures
To understand the impact of the adopted measures, we need to a) have a machine readable dataset of control measures b) evaluate their effect with statistical models

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

We need to understand -- and eventually -- adapt the control policy and convince populations that they need to adopt them.

Challenge

To understand the impact of the adopted measures, we need to a) have a machine readable dataset of control measures b) evaluate their effect with statistical models

Potential solutions

We already worked on a similar project in the context of a smaller hackathon organised by the canton of Zurich (see here https://github.com/baffelli/covid-2019-measures)

Needed resources

I need volunteer to help us improving our dataset. People expert in epidemological or statistical modeling are helpful to understand the first impact of the measures.
Analysis of Antibodies in blood of infected people with no or mild symptoms
Finding medical solution based on immune response of infected people with no or mild symptoms with COVID-19, and without pre-treatment or treatment. Identify and return back workforce(partial) who are safe with COVID-19.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Any vaccine to COVID-19 is still likely at least a year way.
Economy experiencing slowdown due to disruptions in supply chains and reduction of illness-related workforce.

Challenge

Finding medical solution based on immune response of infected people with no or mild symptoms with COVID-19, and without pre-treatment or treatment.
Identify and return back workforce(partial) who are safe with COVID-19.

Potential solutions

According to the WHO, about 80% of people who get Covid-19 experience a mild case(about as serious as a regular cold) and recover without needing any special treatment.
Based on our general understanding of virus, vaccine and immunology, we know that vaccine works by training immune system to recognize and combat pathogens, either viruses or bacteria, and can safely learn to recognize them as hostile invaders, produce antibodies, and remember them for the future. If the bacteria or virus reappears, these memory cells recognize antigens on the pathogens they have encountered before, triggering the immune system to respond faster and more effectively than on the first exposure.

Combing the two facts into one reveal that the 80% people already have antibodies in their body which can reacts COVID-19. Therefore, antibodies screening database of the of the mild case patients or recovered people may significantly shorten duration of a medical solution.

Meanwhile, if the above assumption to be confirmed by scientists, then we can identify people with an effective immune response, and are actually safe and not able to get infected again, those people can return to work, and minimize growing impact to the economy.

Needed resources

Federal Office of Public Health, Scientific contributions from all areas of virology, immunology, microbiology and etc.
Reduce COVID R Naught
Crowd source illness reports to aid a early warning system for governments and the population

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

COVID runs at a R0 rate of 3-4 which is why we have exponential growth

Challenge

Crowd source illness reports to aid a early warning system for governments and the population

Potential solutions

Simple app for people to log themselves (limited PII), view data around them and larger orgs to calculate impacts through dashboards

Needed resources

I have a system to utilize graph db and build appropriate API’s. Require Frontend Devs, visualization and thinkers. Make it attractive to use.
Disinfection
People forget to always disinfect their hands when outside. Can we help preventing contamination ?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

In prevision of ending confinement, we have to improve cutting cross contaminations

Challenge

People forget to always disinfect their hands when outside. Can we help preventing contamination ?

Potential solutions

Common cross contacts points could be disinfected very often (digicodes, bancomats, payment keyboards, public transports)

Needed resources

Need the people to do that, or to pass relevant laws. Maybe involve the Regies for the buildings
Prediction of diseases with the "stay healthy at home" competition
Find out, how the population can be anonymously involved in a such situatation by the approach "pay for your data" in a competition, to predict the spreading of diseases and use the results to prepare the needed ressources in a region and to give safety for the population.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Actually ministries of our state can't predict how the diseases is spreading and growing in the regions of a country, region, city, district, quarter ...

Challenge

Find out, how the population can be anonymously involved in a such situatation by the approach "pay for your data" in a competition, to predict the spreading of diseases and use the results to prepare the needed ressources in a region and to give safety for the population.

Potential solutions

Primary a concept is needed how we the Competition can be financed and the hole citiziens can be registred and involved. Secondary we need a digital plattform to build up a system to give periodicaly data records about healthy of each participant.

Needed resources

Data-Services to the governal ID/Passport verification service, that citiziens can be verified. Mobile or Phone Call Services to use on verification process. Probabley datasets and Data-Analytics Experts, that can analyse the data feedbacks of the people, and medical stuff to identify which questions are needed from the people to identify the healthy questions for COVID-19. Financial experts to define how a payback for the pay 4 your data approach can be implemented
Complementary Medicine App (Focus: Individual Health Profile)
Most people don’t know what aspects of their health situation could and should be improved especially when it comes to the possibilities of alternative and complementary medicine incorporating the immune system, metabolism, root cause analysis and body-mind-balance.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

The better you know your individual health situation and the strength of your immune system, the better you can improve your health situation and individually be prepared to fight COVID-19 and any other viruses in the future.

Challenge

Most people don’t know what aspects of their health situation could and should be improved especially when it comes to the possibilities of alternative and complementary medicine incorporating the immune system, metabolism, root cause analysis and body-mind-balance.

Potential solutions

Based on a regular self-assessment people can better understand their current health situation in an app with an intuitive user experience. This would allow them to better understand what aspects should be improved to become stronger in fighting viruses.

Needed resources

A basic set of questions and possible metrics to define the unique health situation could be provided. The outcome should most probably be a prototype for a proof of concept rather than an already fully fletched version.
Sharing Public Spaces
The problem with large public spaces is the lack of coordination on who comes down to the park at a given time.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

During a lockdown, we're not supposed to use public spaces, not even large areas. This cuts off a lot of people from access to open spaces. This will be problematic for the morale if the lockdowns last several months.

Challenge

The problem with large public spaces is the lack of coordination on who comes down to the park at a given time. What if we could share public spaces by booking access slots, with the proper restrictions on people density by limiting the number of people in an area in a given time. (People would keep their distances "visually".) Authorities can then check the validity of the booking when doing checks. This could be also used e.g. for stores.

Potential solutions

An application that would manage this process securely and with the proper guards in terms of privacy, yet in a way that authorities can check things.

Needed resources

Would need a team of software designers and developers and a team to brainstorm on the details of the concept.
Covid Pass or Register – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
How can individuals but also groups prove their immunity in a targeted manner (e.g.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

Lifting the (partial) shutdown and reopening borders will require trust between people and governments about who is immune, vaccinated and/or who got recently tested. A person might have this information but how can (s)he share this information with e.g. the airline when booking, a customer who wants to hire a cleaning help or get a massage?

Challenge

How can individuals but also groups prove their immunity in a targeted manner (e.g. for reduced protective measures for immunized nursing staff, for participation in a cultural event after relaxation of the measures or for moving across borders) - under the assumption that immunity to COVID disease exists. This proof needs to be digital but respect data privacy and data security standards.

Potential solutions

Different solutions have been suggested:
- A "digital Covid pass" to extend / modernize the more general but analog WHO vaccination booklet.
- A forgery-proof register for data of persons who are immune to Sars-CoV-2 can be realized with a blockchain.
- Self-registration - testing body (laboratory/doctor?) certifies the person as "COVID-resistant
- Schengen countries could issue temporary digital "Covid passports" containing information about immunity status and recent travels to facilitate the re-introduction of travel authorisations. Persons labelled as “Covid immune” would then receive travel authorisation and non-immune people be controlled by Schengen countries when crossing the border.
- We are going to use blockchain to issue Covid-19-free, immutable, digital health confirmations to flight passages. Confirmation will then be checked by the airlines at boarding and accepted as proof of Covid-19 free bill of health. (Passengers could also upload the digital encrypted certificate during online check in). Passengers should be scheduled to board a flight within 24h/48h/72h from the COVID-19 health check up time. Doctor will upload the COVID-19 confirmation on our platform.
- A blockchain solution would allow recording on a secure and unchangeable blockchain database of all patient data related to the diagnosis of COVID-19, to monitor in real time the diagnosed cases and their status, and to securely share the data with relevant actors such as the medical profession or the police.
Needed resources

Different resources have been mentioned:
- Blockchain experts, general data security experts, Sars-CoV-2 antibody test specialists, UI designers.
- Data privacy and security experts, (to determine the content of the booklet: health experts)
- Data protection specialist, app developer, blockchain specialist
- Partners: FDHA; FDFA; FDPH; State Secretariat for Migration; WHO; European Commission; Foundation MyVaccines.
Other resources: e.g. electronic vaccination record; EU Directive for uniformed control procedure at the borders; EU legislation for Schengen-wide fond to buy common testing material.
- I need two blockchain developers. A doctor's practice capable to administer COVID-19 tests and in an airline to test the accuracy and validity of the COVID-19 virus free digital certificates.
- Blockchain experts and a medical institution as a partner to set up the solution.
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge (without a suggested solution) has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Risk Profiles
We have to stay isolated because we don't know the probability of getting infected when X meet Y or a group. Peoples are willing to warn their future contacts by anonymously sharing a probabilistic variable regarding the current state of risks bringing in with.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

We don't know what is the risk of infection with COVID per individual or household (what is the exposure risk of each person because of their jobs & how many members are in the risk category if they would get the virus). As stay at home restrictions are lifted, people will re-engage with their social networks. Yet, they might still be wary (maybe scared) to interact again with others. They need data and analysis that can help them make decisions that will limit their risk of contracting or spreading the virus to help society avoid a second wave.

Challenge

We have to stay isolated because we don't know the probability of getting infected when X meet Y or a group. Peoples are willing to warn their future contacts by anonymously sharing a probabilistic variable regarding the current state of risks bringing in with. These in a network may form a powerful inference tool.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- A believe network it would be useful to cover the asymptomatic period and use it in a shared inference model between peers which have a meeting plan. In top of that, a great contact tracing tool is formed, where targeted risk points could be notified, while respecting gdpr.
- Empower individuals with knowledge of their social network (they will need to populate the graph or connect with others already in the graph) and provide analysis to identify small networks that can be engaged with and represent a reduced risk of contraction / dissemination, and which connections may be the gateways to larger networks representing greater risk. The benefit is we can start to connect again in a considered manner that will also continue to help slow the spread of the virus.
- Limit the spread of the virus by having everyone's risk profile.This would help us understand who is most likely to get the virus, who already had the virus and recovered, who came into contact with someone that was confirmed to have the virus, who needs to get tested with priority or home quarantined. We can also use this app to send notifications to the users when they are close by (eg 10 m) to someone that has a high risk of getting the virus (based on the nature of their job, eg: doctors) or they are next to someone that are in the risk category if they catch the virus (two different type of notifications: one to protect yourself, one to protect the people from the risk category (eg: elderly,people that have previous health conditions)
Needed resources

Several resources have been requested:
- Probabilistic programming, network theory skills are required. Implementation partner also required and some funds to finance a properly peer reviewed development.
- The project requires a graph database and a user interface in order to collect data and populate it. Data scientists with an understanding of graph theory are required to build the analytics. UI programmers are needed to build visualisations to help people see the network and make choices about connections. Data privacy (GDPR) knowledge will also be required for the design and build.
- I need developers who can code and design the application (mobile & backend developers). I can provide functional requirements and coordinate the implementation.
Detecting the Undetected – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
How can the number of undetected infections (asymptomatic infections or infections with only mild symptoms) be reduced or at least better estimated?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Challenge

How can the number of undetected infections (asymptomatic infections or infections with only mild symptoms) be reduced or at least better estimated?

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
The Effect of the Seasons – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
How can potential influencing factors of seasonality (e.g. seasonal meteorological factors but also social behaviour patterns) on the distribution be controlled or at least taken into account?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Dissemination Prevention

Context

It's highly relevant to evaluate how the dissemination of COVID-19 will continue. New factors, such as seasonal changes, make a prognosis especially difficult.

Challenge

How can potential influencing factors of seasonality (e.g. seasonal meteorological factors but also social behaviour patterns) on the distribution be controlled or at least taken into account?

Potential solutions

This is not only about a quantitative analysis, the challenge also requires a sociological and psychological perspective on the matter. How do we humans behave under different circumstances?

Needed resources
- An interdisciplinary team with a strong data science wing.- Maybe datasets and analyses from abroad.
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
behavioural analysis of buying behaviour after announcements
It is unclear how shopping behaviour will change after the Budesrat publishes new information.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

Until now, people in supermarkets have been instructed to count the shoppers present in order not to have too many people in too small a space.

Challenge

It is unclear how shopping behaviour will change after the Budesrat publishes new information.

Potential solutions

All the data already collected from the people in the supermarket can be grouped and analysed centrally. This allows behavioural patterns to be identified following speeches by the Federal Council

Needed resources

meter data, of the people who track the shoppers in the supermarket
The What-is-Actually-(Needed)-Where-Platform
Cross-company supply-demand transparency (platform model) SMEs suffer from this radical imbalance, even more than the large suppliers that might have more supply-demand-transparency.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

We are seeing supply and demand and the supply channels changing at breathtaking pace. Suppliers are not getting rid of their goods needed elsewhere. Inventive products do not find their market. Hamsterpurchases, usuriousprices and emerging blackmarkets illustrate the problem.

Challenge

Cross-company supply-demand transparency (platform model) SMEs suffer from this radical imbalance, even more than the large suppliers that might have more supply-demand-transparency. The hypothesis is: the transparency helps SMEs to find sales-channels, ensures the security of supplyand dries the black markets.

Potential solutions

A model for a platform that makes information of supply and demand of scarce goods transparent across companies. Conventional market platforms have business cases built on scarcity or hidden information. The Transparency of the What-is-Actually-(Needed)-Where-Platform supports business cases for security of supply.

Needed resources

data sources for supply and demand, knowledge about market platforms, creativity techniques, business models
Support for small businesses and startups & distribute the workforce – UN Secretary-General's Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
How can we help small business survive the shutdown?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Economic Impact

Context

Many startups and small businesses, vulnerable to external shocks, are suffering: many had to shut down or they don't have enough businesss (no cashflow/liquidity), and not all have access to governmental financial support.

Challenge

How can we help small business survive the shutdown?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- Enable business to pre-sell stock online by using innovative fintech to enable pre-payment or issuing vouchers/giftcards e.g. using blockchain. Vouchers can be used in the future. Paying now helps with cashflow and spread the possible default risk while supporters have more flexibility where to use these tokenized vouchers.
- Toolkit to survive the quarentine & Consultation or workshop that helps re-orient
- For the blockchain proposal: team (Marcel Gasser) has the smart contract & smart bond technology based on blockchain. They want to cluster in cities: e.g. participating companies can request an amount of vouchers, and the collective pot can invest in these business. after crisis the collective can spend their tokens in for example all participating restaurants in zurich.
- Create a very simple and beautiful template landing page to offer gift cards (trackable database).
- Potentially also create a business marketplace to centralised all the businesses using the service.
- Introduce a gift scheme on a single platform for all small retail shops
- At Basel we have a start https://www.we-are-basel.ch/ (doyou GmbH)
- Compensate for free (and not credit) the lost of business
- A platform on which businesses can ask for worforce, with specific skillsets and vicinity to the needed workplaces, could help redistribute the workload during the crisis. On such a platform a business can also offer their workforce.
Needed resources
- UN to Provide 2 mentors: one from DFTF and one from gluoNNet
- MAVN Alliance has a funtioning prototype
- FINMA or legal regulation topics
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals
Building resilient and agile organizations – Berner Fachhochschule Wirtschaft, République et canton de Genève
How can we provide them the financial suport as well as access to needed expertise (legal, decision marking, digital marketing, financial management, etc)? What are the mechanisms that drive resilience and how can Start-Ups and SMEs implement them quickly?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Economic Impact

Context

SMEs and startups facing challenges to a) resolve urgent issues to maintain operations, b) adapt the organisation, c) re-position strategically to new market environments d) build resilience capability to cope with future threats d) in all steps: ensure timeliness and optimise resource deployment. It also appears that organizations that have developed agile innovation and management methods have been more resilient in the covid-10 crisis. Unfortunately, most companies and organizations have not learned agile
innovation and management methods before the crisis, and these methods are mostly taught during in-person seminars or hackathons.

Challenge

How can we provide them the financial suport as well as access to needed expertise (legal, decision marking, digital marketing, financial management, etc)? What are the mechanisms that drive resilience and how can Start-Ups and SMEs implement them quickly? How can we redesign business models?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- A "market place" type platform where solidarity companies come to offer free (in pro-bono mode, i.e. for the public good) expert contents, public webinars or software licenses. All targeting subjects that will allow SME's to be correctly informed and get organized to resist the crisis and then get back on their feet better
- Develop e-learning for agile innovation & management so that all businesses and organizationst can profit ASAP of the resilience benefits these methods can offer. Ideally, we would like to have the e-learning process gamified and of course be collective (Open Geneva)
- Facilitate organisational efficacy
Needed resources
- Berner FHS: We asked 300 Start-Ups and SMEs why they think their business is more affected than others. We can provide this data to the participants.
- Sustainance : We can provide expertise to build a "Response, Realignment & Resilience framework”
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Submitted by: Berner Fachhochschule Wirtschaft, Canton of Geneva
Be (a) Local Hero
Many platforms for neighbourhood help and shopping have been created. The vulnerability of society due to a lack of local production and distribution of services and products is clearly visible. We want crisis-proof infrastructures (in contrast to global players like Amazon).

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

The coronavirus poses great challenges for our entire society. Especially local companies and self-employed persons are economically strongly affected. They have lost almost all their customers or even had to close down completely. Many lack the financial means to survive this crisis.

Challenge

Many platforms for neighbourhood help and shopping have been created. The vulnerability of society due to a lack of local production and distribution of services and products is clearly visible. We want crisis-proof infrastructures (in contrast to global players like Amazon). How can local platforms created by the crisis, such as Be Local Hero, be established in order to be able to stand up to international platforms after the crisis?

Potential solutions

"Be Local Hero" is the new free platform on which entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and small businesses can register themselves: A digital shop window, which is supposed to maintain the existence in the Corona crisis. At the same time, the population can stroll online through their neighbourhood. In this way, two local heroes meet - the shop next door and the community, whose support helps to maintain diversity in the neighbourhood.

Needed resources

belocalhero.com is already online with an increasing amount of user. We want to develop it further on conceptional as well technical level. Therefore we are looking for e-commerce specialist, sustainable business development, development
We are open for collaboration with other similar platform. If you are too, please contact us.
New Fundraising-Tools for NGO's
How can we establish new and effective fundraising tools in these difficult times in order to help the NGO's to overcome the decline in their donations?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

According to a new Swissfundraising-report over 80 percent of the NGO's are frightened to receive less donations due to the Corona-Crises.This situation would lead in lower budgets for the projects, and therefor a tightening in project transfers. This again would lead in deep problems for the neglected groups in all area of NGO activities: Education, health, environment, arts & culture & sports, social and human services, social justice, youth, human rights, conflict and peace activities etc. The whole NGO sector would have huge problems in running their activities in order to serve their purpose.

Challenge

How can we establish new and effective fundraising tools in these difficult times in order to help the NGO's to overcome the decline in their donations?
Measuring the Economic Burden – République et canton de Genève
How can the economic consequences be presented in quantitative or qualitative terms on an ongoing basis? How can we build models and scenarios that allow forecasting optimal policies for Swiss cantonal and federal governments?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Economic Impact

Context

In this crisis, one of the key issues for governments is to perform a correct balance between managing public health to maintain mortality as low as possible and avoid overpressure on the healthcare system, while maintain the economic activity as high as possible. The measures implemented by the state cause many unwanted and unexpected consequences on our economy.

Challenge

How can the economic consequences be presented in quantitative or qualitative terms on an ongoing basis? How can we build models and scenarios that allow forecasting optimal policies for Swiss cantonal and federal governments?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- Test new ways of analysing the impact of the COVID-19 measures on our economy (e.g. surveys, crowd-based mapping, "Bürgerforum") and summarises the discovered pros and cons of different measures based on the new insights
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by several parties, including the Canton of Geneva. Also, the Federal Office of Public Health submitted a similar challenge (without a potential solution). Due to the current crisis, the Federal Office of Public Health will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Prediction, planning and fraud detection of financial impacts on companies by real data
With beginning of a future world crisis the companies should provide the "market area relevant performance and crisis relevant index parameters" into a central record data-area of our country.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

The governament actually doesen't have realtime predictions to be able to plan and build up directly financial support for tilted compoanies in realtime and also they ar not able to measure how immediatly this support impacts sustained over months and years to the hole environment.

Challenge

With beginning of a future world crisis the companies should provide the "market area relevant performance and crisis relevant index parameters" into a central record data-area of our country. A prediction engine should determine, which areas would be mostly impacted of a crisis and also the prediction should find out and prevent fraud in a crisis situation. The system should compare faster an financial support to the companies with the immedialty impacts of the financial injections. Derived from this results also a indication of goods, services and needs after a crisies should be determined and shared with the relevant sectors and branches, so that the economy can recover quickly.

Potential solutions

A concept for economic interrelations should be build up and the relevant performing and crisis Indicators schould be defined. A PoC of a digital portal or digital data-collection and data-evaluation with prediction could be implemented

Needed resources

actual and past economic datasets are needed, with an decentral data view detailled
by alle locations and area of switzerland,
economical-, political-, scientistic- and philisophical expertes are needed
Basic Income as an economical accelerator
Finding longterm mesures to prevent the Swiss economy to slide into a long depression.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

he current program from the Swiss Government does only foresee shorterm mesures for entreprises not to fail. Longterm mesures have to be identified.

Challenge

Finding longterm mesures to prevent the Swiss economy to slide into a long depression.

Potential solutions

Use basic Income as an economical accelerator

Needed resources

A economist, a tax expert and an accountant.
How to efficiently clear essential goods at borders in international trade?
To reduce physical contact with customs and government agencies when clearing goods at borders a novel solution is needed, to allow remote clearance or inspections.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

Billions of people are dependent on international trade to have access to essential goods. Those essential goods are stuck at borders and are awaiting clearance. The given hygiene requirements complicate the work of clearing agents and involved parties.

Challenge

To reduce physical contact with customs and government agencies when clearing goods at borders a novel solution is needed, to allow remote clearance or inspections.

Potential solutions

Remote clearance or inspections using risk-management techniques via mobile devices could be a game changer in this context.
Food home delivery panic!
Platforms like LeShop, Farmy, Coop@Home are overloaded and slots are fully booked weeks ahead which creates anxiety of penury among customers.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Economic Impact

Context

How can we help the swiss home food delivery industry deal with unprecedented amount of orders and customers' anxiety?

Challenge

Platforms like LeShop, Farmy, Coop@Home are overloaded and slots are fully booked weeks ahead which creates anxiety of penury among customers.

Potential solutions

The solution is maybe not entirely technical or logistical: maybe we should focus on the customers needs and their emotional state

Needed resources

People experienced with logistics. Ideally an insider from home delivery companies, so we could get a realistic grasp on the context and the constraints (even for simple interviews on Friday or Saturday)
Healthy, Local Food
We have knowledge of food which supports immunity better - how do we communicate this? And how can people get access to that food?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Education

Context

The virus is harming people with compromised immune systems. People dont have knowledge what alimentation is good for them. Also need to avoid public places as much as possible.

Challenge

We have knowledge of food which supports immunity better - how do we communicate this? And how can people get access to that food?

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Organise group deliveries from local farmers. And in second stage- recepies.
- An 8 part practical learning programme
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- I have specialists that can work on products choice. But probably will need additional specialists depending on volume. And developer and designer for the solution. Need local eco/bio farmers list with available products. Also need financing.
- I have 8 presentations which need to be digitized and tested.
AI Exercises
Teachers must teach from home. How can worksheets be corrected (automatically) and teachers keep track of them? Parents, who work, have very limited time for checking correctness of e.g. many math exercises.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Education

Context

Students have to work from home. But for some tasks it is preferable to work on paper. E.g. children from the Primary School learn mathematics at home with help of exercise books. Parents are responsible for checking correctness of the results.

Challenge

Teachers must teach from home. How can worksheets be corrected (automatically) and teachers keep track of them? Parents, who work, have very limited time for checking correctness of e.g. many math exercises.

Potential solutions

One solution has been suggested:
- Interactive AI solution: giving, checking and scoring math exercises.
An initial version is already successfully used by children in the 1st and 2nd class of a Primary School in Thalwil.
Link: https://github.com/jonatan-kazmierczak/maths-practice-for-children
Next step: a Progressive Web App.

Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- The technology already exists, but I need teachers to create the matreal and use it.
- Web Developer(s) who can create an intuitive PWA
"The green student" : academic value of the mobility and cooperation
How can we imagine forms of exchange and mobility in the education/academic field that really take this change into account, that strengthen and intensify international cooperation while considering the green and sustainable dimension?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Mobility, exchange and cooperation in the field education are the cement of a more global and intercultural education system and society. With the current crisis these international activities have temporarily ceased or are relegated to the background. They will start up again, but it will be certainly different, the added value and sustainable development dimension will be more important in the future. It will be a challenge !

Challenge

How can we imagine forms of exchange and mobility in the education/academic field that really take this change into account, that strengthen and intensify international cooperation while considering the green and sustainable dimension? How to motivate and support actors of the education system (schools, teachers, ...) ?

Potential solutions

New and creative ideas, e.g an overview of the digital opportunities, virtual mobility tools, platforms, transportation facilities, good practices, ...
Grade Wars: The Rise Of Skills
Schools currently lack the tools to assess important skills of their learners and report them to students, future employees and colleges.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Because of COVID-19 schools have stopped giving grades. It has become clear that it is not so much knowledge that students need for living in the digital age, but important skills such as teamwork, creativity, entrepreneurship, critical thinking or communication.

Challenge

Schools currently lack the tools to assess important skills of their learners and report them to students, future employees and colleges.

Potential solutions

We have developed a tool for measuring and developing skills. With the help of teachers, professors, entrepreneurs and other experts we now want to implement the world's first indicator-based and empirically validated skill model.

Needed resources

We need know-how in the areas of UX, UI, statistics, data science and NLP (Natural Language Processing) and Devs to create a platform with which the validation of the skill model can be developed. The platform will be built in Flutter and Firestore.
teachers/students without infrastructure
Partly by teachers who are not so fit with computers because they were not trained for it. How can teachers do this from home without a large infrastructure (e.g. copiers)?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

The children who do not have a computer or have to share a computer with siblings and parents without discrimination to continue schooling .

Challenge

Partly by teachers who are not so fit with computers because they were not trained for it. How can teachers do this from home without a large infrastructure (e.g. copiers)?
Scratch programming courses for kids – Digital Impact Network, Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, Universität Bern
Kids need tutors who help them with getting to know Scratch

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Kids are at home and want to learn programming

Challenge

Kids need tutors who help them with getting to know Scratch

Potential solutions

A group of experienced Scratch mentors who know Google CS First videos and methods

Needed resources

People knowing how to program Scratch and willing to prepare courses with Google CS First

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Digital Impact Network and Reasearch Center for Digital Sustainability of University of Bern
Open Education Server
We want to offer schools and educational institutions an alternative, completely built on open source. These are non-profit, supplier-independent and the data remain in Switzerland.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Schools need infrastructure for distance learning. In this need, many fall back on Microsoft, Google and Co., which are supposedly free of charge, but they hold serious dangers.
Google uses the data of students and teachers for their data-driven business models. Microsoft creates in this way a vendor lock-in at an early age, from which the children can hardly escape later on.

Challenge

We want to offer schools and educational institutions an alternative, completely built on open source. These are non-profit, supplier-independent and the data remain in Switzerland.

Potential solutions

The association CH-Open already operates an Open Education Server as a proof of concept www.openeduserver.ch. The idea is to extend this server to a complete offer. This includes professional IT solutions (e-mail, online office, video conferencing, collaboration) on an complete open source basis.The solution should be professionally hosted, maintained by experts and supported by an NGO.

Needed resources

Software developers, users such as teachers, trainers, students, database specialists, open source experts, IT architects etc.
Tutorial for teachers
Provide ready to use video following the teacher own content courses. Following the course prepared by the teacher.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Teacher are not necessary comfortable to act on video / make video and don't have time to create digital content. Because they need to prepare their courses and they work home (sho w their privacy home on video)

Challenge

Provide ready to use video following the teacher own content courses. Following the course prepared by the teacher.

Potential solutions

Create video and contents ready to be used, which followed the course prepared by the teacher. Creation of video with the contents ( figure, slides, integrated)....

Needed resources

Editor for video, website coding to create platform online to share the resource and interact with the teacher.
Food Education for All - Not Only for Crisis Situations
Missing a trustful "umbrella" platform for sharing examples of hospitality contributions placing/coordination of workers (who do not work now) into other areas of need, e.g chefs working in social kitchens, hospitals, farms or supply chains supporting healthcare workers.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

People need more food education to better understand why healthcare, food, hospitality and education are important, how they are linked together and what outcomes these are may have on our health, lifestyle, sustainability and crisis situations. For example, culinary skills at home, food safety, wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, shopping during emergency situations.

Challenge

Missing a trustful "umbrella" platform for sharing examples of hospitality contributions placing/coordination of workers (who do not work now) into other areas of need, e.g chefs working in social kitchens, hospitals, farms or supply chains supporting healthcare workers. Creating solutions for people in need, poor areas, migrant communities and elderly people - people who most likely do not use/read online resources or have no internet access.

Potential solutions

Developing and implementing of more preventive and educational programmes to create public-private collaboration bridges, increase information awareness, train teachers and key professionals and secure a better translation for communities. Our partner has also developed a Mobile Kitchen concept to complement "offline" distribution of education.

Needed resources

We are a group/ a global network of nutritionists, medical doctors, teachers, chefs and initiatives working together towards SDGs 2030 and improving the global implementation of nutrition education
How to create a community of teachers to meet the challenges of distance education?
Teachers do not have the training, tools and resources to teach at a distance. But we know that the community can be a support for any professional body. How can we support teachers in the current teaching situation.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Overnight, we asked students, parents and teachers to adapt to teaching at home. Teachers have never been trained in distance education and many questions arise: what tools? what activities? how to do it? These are the challenges facing teachers.

Challenge

Teachers do not have the training, tools and resources to teach at a distance. But we know that the community can be a support for any professional body. How can we support teachers in the current teaching situation.

Potential solutions

The creation of a federally based community of experts, teachers and researchers with support could be a solution .

Needed resources

Teachers, parents, educational researchers, sociologists, etc., should be involved.
One platform for communication for teachers
One user-friendly platform for communication with peers, students, and parents

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Not able to communicate out of one single platform. Calls, emails, notes, and tasks are disconnected. Different tools for the same problem with the same stakeholder

Challenge

One user-friendly platform for communication with peers, students, and parents

Potential solutions

Platform needs to be very userfriendly (especially for kids). Student should be able to resolve a problem, upload his work and teacher should be able to correct mistake directly on this upload

Needed resources

Webapplication that allows videocall, notes, content sharing, content edit, chat, and email. This needs to be supported introduced by the government as user will not adopt otherwise
Creation of activities, tools and didactic resources in robotics, programming and computational thinking for teachers to do at a distance.
Teachers need to be able to introduce educational robotics in schools even in the context of a pandemic.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Education

Context

The digital society requires the acquisition of computer science skills such as computer thinking or coding skills. Cross-cutting skills such as communication, collaboration and creativity are increasingly important. Educational robotics is seen as a valuable tool to develop these skills and is increasingly present in new school curricula. But how can this be done at a distance?

But How to prepare children for the world of tomorrow at a distance", "How to introduce robotics and computer thinking at a distance", "What activities can I offer to my class #learnathome" or "Am I able to introduce computer thinking and robotics without being a distance expert" are some examples of frequently asked questions directly related to digital education. Digital education is a major concern in the school environment and it can be a real source of difficulties".

Challenge

Teachers need to be able to introduce educational robotics in schools even in the context of a pandemic. For the time being, it is the pioneers/experts who are introducing robotics in schools while the majority of teachers would need more support to feel comfortable in such activities with their classes, especially at a distance. Possible support could be found in a community where experts, pioneers and followers can share their experiences, knowledge, skills and materials in order to provide creative, innovative and accessible activities for students and parents at home.

Potential solutions
1. creation of #learnathome activities and resources by teachers and for teachers ("butom up" effect).
2. Creation of webinars between teachers and experts
3. Creation of MOOCS to train teachers.
4. Giving simple and clear tools to teachers.
Needed resources

"Teachers, parents, education students, computer and programming experts, cameramen, graphic designers, journalists, web marketing specialists, pedagogical managers, communication specialists...
1. For the creation of the activities #learnathome innovative people who know a little bit about the school system and robotics, computer thinking and programming.
2. For the creation of webinars, people who know about video conferencing tools and specialists who want to talk.
3. For moocs: people who know how to film and work with video.
4. to communicate to as many teachers as possible people in communication, in digital marketing.
Motivated, caring and creative people!"
Homeschooling for the opposite end of life
All senior-related institutions/clubs/associations are closed (e.g., Seniors Universities across CH). 65+ who are highly active and who continue to learn and develop via different associations are now stuck at home.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

65+ are accepted as the risk group and must stay at home. However, this population is very heterogeneous and not all of them are sick, frail or weak. Many 65+ are highly active, productive, and are aging in a positive way and contributing to society.

Challenge

All senior-related institutions/clubs/associations are closed (e.g., Seniors Universities across CH). 65+ who are highly active and who continue to learn and develop via different associations are now stuck at home. They have lost their daily routine/goals with a sense of limitation. We do not know how long 65+ will have to restrict their daily lives.

Potential solutions

Similar to homeschooling solutions for children, we should develop a distance learning platform for seniors. For example, Seniors Universities could continue their curriculum via this platform, with additional features, such as online fitness & hobby classes, socialization options (for enhancing human connection and fighting loneliness) and access to "citizen science" projects where they could volunteer. Another important feature: Active seniors could volunteer as mentors and support those seniors who are older, less privileged or unfamiliar with digital tools (e.g., internet) and help them integrate with digitalization.

Needed resources

I am a gerontopsychologist and an aging scientist: I have theoretical knowledge and research & teaching experience in the context of aging, and access to Seniors Universities and other aging-related institutions, as well as universities in general. The project needs developer(s) to design the platform and Swiss-German speaking public relations/marketing person(s) to work with different stakeholders.
How to reconcile working life and children's education?
Enable children to create a setup specific to their world as a child, in contact with their friends, their teachers, who motivate them to continue their program.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Education

Context

Parents work and cannot supervise children properly to stimulate and motivate them to work.

Challenge

Enable children to create a setup specific to their world as a child, in contact with their friends, their teachers, who motivate them to continue their program.

Potential solutions

To train teachers in distance learning, to develop interactive platforms and not only to deposit documents, to consult children to know their needs and desires in such a period.

Needed resources

Survey of the children, their parents, take into account the material to be transmitted but also the expectations of the families.
Memorial For Covid-19
Support to people who have a sick relative without being able to accompany him/her according to the rites of our societies: a platform in memory of the deceased who have not had a traditional funeral could be set up and provide some assistance to families deprived of the usual …

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Families who lose a loved one due to the Covid-19 pandemic cannot attend funerals, which are held indoors.

Challenge

Support to people who have a sick relative without being able to accompany him/her according to the rites of our societies: a platform in memory of the deceased who have not had a traditional funeral could be set up and provide some assistance to families deprived of the usual stages of mourning.

Potential solutions

Data specific to the victims (photos, videos, letters, documents, etc.) would be deposited by the relatives in the form of a "virtual shoe-box" and shared in a restricted circle according to the preferences of the depositories. These data would also be processed for long-term preservation and remain available only to well defined people.

Needed resources

My organization could provide some underlying infrastructure (this is in discussion), but I would need a group of developers who would amend some existing open source SW to customize interfaces, and possibly designers to set up for an optimized UI for the families.
Keep Your Kids' Spirit Up through Upcycling
How can local businesses (artisans, artists, etc.) participate in the effort to educate and entertain children from distance using their own knowledge and expertise?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Overwhelmed parents seeking ways to educate/entertain their kids while waste is piling up due to the increased home deliveries and local artisans and artists are desperate.

Challenge

How can local businesses (artisans, artists, etc.) participate in the effort to educate and entertain children from distance using their own knowledge and expertise?

Potential solutions

Creating series of video tutorials or online workshops where local artisans/artists show children how to create fun objects out of waste (e.g. a new pet home out of old wooden pallet, their own toys, etc.).

Needed resources

Material: Old/discarded items at home, waste generated from all the packaging of home deliveries.
Experts: We already have a list of local artisans and artists who produce upcycled items, we just need to connect them with parent groups, classes, etc.
Distance playgroup
Recreate the possibility for small groups of friends to play together for 1-2 hours per day.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Children are bored at home and miss playing with friends

Challenge

Recreate the possibility for small groups of friends to play together for 1-2 hours per day.

Potential solutions

An online platform where you can register groups of friends, who can choose among various playing activities, which can be done either online or in a combination online/offline (e.g. role games such as playing family with dolls, where kids see each other through the camera and can interact, or creative works with paper, which kids can do all together, following instructions and helping each other). Games should be suitable for specific ages (e.g. 5-6 years, 7-8, years, 9-10 years)

Needed resources

child care people with experience on virtual platforms
Distance Education for Child (3yo to 6 yo)
Give active tools for small children (3 to 6 year old) to help them to develop in normal way using the tablet/computer as distance school and without asking parents to supervised.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Small children ( from 3 yo to 6 yo) cannot go to school but cannot pass 4h/day in front of passive screen and tablet for their development. parents cannot do home school(they work)

Challenge

Give active tools for small children (3 to 6 year old) to help them to develop in normal way using the tablet/computer as distance school and without asking parents to supervised.

Potential solutions

I build a method for to talk science to small child as a language with activities. I will need a to adapt it in order to use it at distance ( computer/tablet ) in a active way.
A bit similar as application to learn language but in a more interacting was because the preschool teacher can watch on video call.
This could be adapted for art project, activities....ect...

Needed resources

Video editing to create tutorial for preschool teacher that i can do to explain the activity.
Coding to create a website and an application to interact in a very easy way for the small child during the video call.
Design, Artist to draw and create story/ animation to present the activities.
Serious Games against Microbes
How can we use a serious-game approach to raise awareness of these hygiene measures in a different way to increase these practices? Education and training will help children to avoid infection and becoming vectors.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Hygiene measures that to be followed to combat the coronavirus are clearly defined and widely communicated. The are key to successful fighting the dissemination of COVID-19.

Challenge

How can we use a serious-game approach to raise awareness of these hygiene measures in a different way to increase these practices? Education and training will help children to avoid infection and becoming vectors.

Potential solutions

Different solutions have been submitted: Electronic and non electronic game to make children develop right habits and skills to avoid contamination for themself and others

Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Serious game concept, prototype, target group and communication strategy.
- I have ideas on what types of games to do, but I need informaticiens, developers, entrepreneur to build it.
Parentslack - Online community for parents and family-experts
Parenting was already difficult before Corona. Now, families have to deal with way more challenges like home-schooling, home-office, feeling of exhaustion and isolation, stressed and bored children. Many of them lack ideas and tools for organsiaton and day-to-day planning.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Parents have to reconcile childcare, household and home-office.

Challenge

Parenting was already difficult before Corona. Now, families have to deal with way more challenges like home-schooling, home-office, feeling of exhaustion and isolation, stressed and bored children. Many of them lack ideas and tools for organsiaton and day-to-day planning.

Potential solutions

An digital-community for parents, created with slack. It will give parents access to a community of other, supporting parents, as well as ideas for games and activities at home and "Ask-me-anything"-chats with family-experts. A special channel will be about "digital babysitting and playdates". First draft of a landingpage: www.parentslack.de

Needed resources

Expertise for security/trust/safety issues, marketing/influencer and PR support, organisation, content and project management for the set up of the slack community, admins who can help encouraging the communication as well as giving answers/advices to parents
Créer une Bande Dessinée Bonne Santé
Les scientifiques n'ont pas toujours les outils pour la sensibilisation du grand public. Comment peut-on aider à raconter une histoire?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

La population attrape moins de virus avec un système immunitaire plus fort.

Challenge

Les scientifiques n'ont pas toujours les outils pour la sensibilisation du grand public. Comment peut-on aider à raconter une histoire?

Potential solutions

Créer une bande dessinée qui raconte différentes options de booster son système immunitaire, pour maximiser les chances de rester en bonne santé.

Needed resources

Graphiste, Maison d'édition, Storytelling, Scientifique, Expert livre électronique
The Generation Bridger
How can we bridge the physical and emotional gap between grandparents and their grandchildren? Some sporadic skype calls don't help. The needs are different: a simple technology for grandparents, fun for the kids, and regular remote support for parents.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Family & Kids

Context

Grandparents can't look after their grandchildren anymore. Parents who still work have to reorganize child care and arrange homeschooling. Old and young generations miss physical contact, kids lack alternative care, and parents have additional time pressure.

Challenge

How can we bridge the physical and emotional gap between grandparents and their grandchildren? Some sporadic skype calls don't help. The needs are different: a simple technology for grandparents, fun for the kids, and regular remote support for parents.

Potential solutions

The Generation Bridger could be a simple, but attractive online game with edutainment-oriented challenges to be solved by the young and old together. If a challenge takes 1 hour (incl. further infos, chatting), parents gain some valuable time.

Needed resources

Specialists in edutainment, coding, app / platform developement, gamification. Interested teachers, parents, grandparents, and generation bridgers.
Structure your (Work or Study) Day in Isolation
Students and employees complain how difficult it is to find some structure while workin in isolation at home.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

Students and employees are forced to work in a productive way from their homes, mostly in isolation.

Challenge

Students and employees complain how difficult it is to find some structure while workin in isolation at home.

Potential solutions

a list of easy-to achieve structuring mechanisms for working at home (formal, informal, explicit, implicit)

Needed resources

ideas, experience of individuals that are used to working in their home office, best practices
HomeOffice for beginners
How can the blurring of the boundaries between work and family life be better mastered by the current situation in the home office? How to get home office workes up to speed and keep them confortable?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

Home Office is not easy. No space, noisy children, no techy, working at home is not working!

Challenge

How can the blurring of the boundaries between work and family life be better mastered by the current situation in the home office? How to get home office workes up to speed and keep them confortable?

Needed resources

There are may trainings like linkedIn learning, but also targeting not the non techy...
Reconfigure the office
How can we easily re-configure office space, especially in open space settings? Are there any low-cost solutions to that?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

Office layouts are not prepared to be easily re-configured to allow work during crisis.

Challenge

How can we easily re-configure office space, especially in open space settings? Are there any low-cost solutions to that?

Potential solutions

Moving walls from cardboard. Inflatable elements. Big Lego blocks.

Needed resources

I have office spaces available that could be reconfigured (nest.empa.ch). I need group of interdisciplinary people to create ideas and concepts.
HR management tool for crisis situations – Genève Lab (République et canton de Genève)
For a team leader during an extended stress period, it is essential to be able to anticipate and maintain the effective management of his or her team while respecting the physical and mental health of individual team members. How can he or she best do that?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

In the context of a crisis such as the one we are going through, the commitment of human resources can be extraordinary over a given period of time.

Challenge

For a team leader during an extended stress period, it is essential to be able to anticipate and maintain the effective management of his or her team while respecting the physical and mental health of individual team members. How can he or she best do that?

Potential solutions

A tool for reporting stress and health conditions (including COVID-19 symptoms) by team members would facilitate the systematic and effective management of teams, as well as the assessment of their state of health (physical and mental) in exceptional situations.

Needed resources

A concept and, if possible, a functioning prototype.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Genève Lab (State of Geneva)
Idependent, secure and free digital tools to work (videoconf, chat)
Security, cost, independence

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

Independent chat solutions are extremely important right now. The cat must work as a federated system like email, landline or mobile phone to be independent. Social contacts must be maintained in digital form - without enriching companies.

Challenge

Security, cost, independence

Potential solutions

Install some jitsi meet video conf System on Swiss Clouds to be independant (One min Per canton)

Needed resources

Swiss Clouds, IT team, People with expertise in AR/VR, also maybe Game Designers
The benefits of homeoffice
The "forced" use of the homeoffice used to continue working in compliance with safety standards and social distance following the health emergency should lead to reflect on the positive aspects of this way of working and not only on what cannot be done working from home.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

The current health emergency has forced many companies to adapt their way of working to home working by necessity.

Challenge

The "forced" use of the homeoffice used to continue working in compliance with safety standards and social distance following the health emergency should lead to reflect on the positive aspects of this way of working and not only on what cannot be done working from home. The positive aspects are also benefits that have an impact on society, the most important of which are the reduction of traffic and lack of parking spaces and the family-work conciliation that if well structured allows you to work efficiently and productively and at the same time to be more present for your family especially if you have children at home. So how to encourage the use of homeoffice wherever possible and in a flexible way even after the crisis?

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Potential solutions

Types of jobs where it is possible to suggest in certain cases and situations to allow the use of this way of working for a certain % of the weekly work and models that can be used already implemented in other cases. Moving from an hourly job to a task-based job

Needed resources

List of jobs and tasks that can be done remotely and sectors in general. General trend especially for new jobs of the millennials (digital nomads) and successful practical cases. Tool for remote work and "control" of tasks by the team.
Deap learning at the service of interpersonal communication
Assessment of congruence thanks to deap learning assistance

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Home Office & Teamwork

Context

We work via teleworking, video conferencing. In this context, through a screen, creating or building trust becomes a challenge.

Challenge

Assessment of congruence thanks to deap learning assistance

Potential solutions

We are developing a deap learning machine that can read and analyze the different signals emitted by humans in order to establish their congruence. It is a tool that allows us to go back over cognitive biases in order to be sure to understand the reality of our interlocutor and in this sense optimize interpersonal communication.

Needed resources

We have the support of Innosuisse. But to go faster and enable our deap learning machine to go from crawling to standing, we are looking for partners and / or experts in engineering and deap learning, financiers, and so on.
Public Resource Telehealth Directory
No single Directory exists which includes ALL existing telehealth services and providers, for public to access, for anything, from anywhere.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

A single resource directory for ALL existing telehealth services and providers for public to access

Challenge

No single Directory exists which includes ALL existing telehealth services and providers, for public to access, for anything, from anywhere.

Potential solutions

A verified, centralized Public Resource Directory with all available telehealth services and providers, for individuals looking to find telemedicine consults, anywhere, anytime.

Needed resources

I have a list of some existing services and providers for the directory, but need help with wider public dissemination of the directory for public access.
Light up the effective treatments
We have enormous data from cases these days. Can we establish the guideline of the treatments depending on the stage of symptoms, age and chronic diseases by analyzing those data?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

It may be still not sure what treatments are actually needed depending on the stage of symptoms, age and chronic diseases.

Challenge

We have enormous data from cases these days. Can we establish the guideline of the treatments depending on the stage of symptoms, age and chronic diseases by analyzing those data?

Potential solutions

Machine learning techniques may be a good solution to find a hint quickly

Needed resources

The cases of COVID-19 from all over the world with some parameters (age, what chronic diseases the person had, death or recovered, how was the symptoms, what treatments were done etc...)
Platform for connecting medical equipment suppliers and consumers – Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG)
Coping with the shortage of protective medical equipment.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Today it is very complicate to find (and buy) some protective equipments and materials like masks, especially for doctors working in medical practices.

Challenge

Coping with the shortage of protective medical equipment.

Potential solutions

Set up a trustable digital plateform where medical staff can find, share, exchange and buy medical stuff.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Global COVID-19 Supply Store – UNAIDS / Health Innovation Exchange
How can we collect and curate reliable information on available supplies (including new and innovative solutions developed for COVID-19) with fair and accurate pricing, open to all who need to procure, including in developing countries?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Healthcare providers and government agencies around the world are trying to identify where to purchase essential supplies for the COVID-19 response, such as masks and test kits. Many sellers are using this opportunity to sell products at unfair prices through different channels.

Challenge

How can we collect and curate reliable information on available supplies (including new and innovative solutions developed for COVID-19) with fair and accurate pricing, open to all who need to procure, including in developing countries? How can we help countries that need small quantities get prices comparable to those that place large orders?

Potential solutions

An updated, openly accessible mapping of essential materials & prices that can be accessed by governments, healthcare providers and other key procurers & a way to connect supply to needs transparently.

Needed resources

We have a list of what are considered essential supplies for COVID-19. We need up-to-date expertise on approving new solutions and verifying fair pricing, plus technology expertise on how to coordinate and disseminate info globally.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

UNAIDS / Health Innovation Exchange
How to get Local & Reusable Masks?
A mask is needed that is reusable and can be produced locally, maybe even at home.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

There is a shortage of protective masks in Switzerland. What is needed is a mask that uses significantly less filter material, is easy to clean, can be reused and provides good protection.

Challenge

A mask is needed that is reusable and can be produced locally, maybe even at home.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Development of a mask which requires filter material only at the air outlet. The rest of the mask can be cleaned and reused. A mask made of solid, easy to clean material is complemented with a soft face connection and a head holder. The filter can be changed easily. Different filter materials can be used.
- LOCAL PRODUCTION of reusable masks with clear plastic faceguard, silicone or other gloves that are in "anti-microbial" material to touch lift button and other thinks - then turn inside out to put it in the bag - and in case of need again turn it - and after wash it to clean it. Develop anti-microbial tissue / rubber / plastic.
- Quickly buy at low price the old kites all over the world. And produce masks.
- Swoxid proposes a reusable, UV-light sterilizable antiviral face mask. It can be reused more than 1000 times.
- An easy way to get off from the protective clothing after the use. Or, an easy way to sanitise the protective clothing before undressing. (saving waste to)
- As an interim solution, self-made masks would be better than no masks for use in public spaces.
- Hold mask manufacturing workshops, which do not require much experience, and the production process is very easy, we just have to provide the right fabric and sewing machines. Then we can work from anywhere, we can even distribute the work to their homes. Only for the cutting process we need a large room that contains a large table and electric scissors. After the cutting process, the supervisor distributes the work to the workers and explains the work mechanism.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- I need people who develop ideas for the soft face connection and head holder. Also competence in injection moulding and 3D printing. Video and marketing specialists for communication. Contacts to the industry.
- I need collection points in major cities to collect old kites, project coordinators as well as material and tailors.
- Entrepreneurs, engineers
- We are experts in the filter manufacturing but we need people to propose : i) mask designs, ii) material to be used, iii) certification requirements, iv) best manufacturing practices
- Instructions and recommended materials/fabrics see Internet
- I have good experience in making patterns and running sewing workshops. I have one friend how is professional in sewing. we need all the instruments: swings machines, electric scissors, big room 85, big table 74, textiles.
Advance directive notification tool – Genève Lab (République et canton de Genève)
As some people do not want such invasive procedures, it would be relevant, out of respect for their intention and given the potentially limited resources available, to be able to be aware of this intention.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

The consequences of a virus contamination can be serious in terms of medical interventions, especially in the Intensive Care Unit where some patients need to be artificially ventilated (intubation).

Challenge

As some people do not want such invasive procedures, it would be relevant, out of respect for their intention and given the potentially limited resources available, to be able to be aware of this intention. To do so one uses so-called advanced directives (Informations: https://www.ch.ch/fr/directives-anticipees/).

Potential solutions

A system (communication strategy, process) and a tool to enable people who so wish to easily express and modify their advance directives would be desirable and useful. The solution should also make it possible to easily inform the health professionals in charge of the patient of the existence of such advance directives.

Needed resources

The solution should ideally include a draft communication strategy addressing relevant target groups. The tool concept and/or prototype must also respect stringent privacy regulations and security standards.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Genève Lab (State of Geneva)
Platform for on-line rehabilitation courses and childbirth preparation
Set up a platform to propose some classroom and/or on-line courses for : - rehabilitation by physiotherapist or speach therapist (inpatients or outpatients) - childbirth preparation (women who can not leave their home)
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

For inpatients and outpatients

Challenge

Set up a platform to propose some classroom and/or on-line courses for :
- rehabilitation by physiotherapist or speach therapist (inpatients or outpatients)
- childbirth preparation (women who can not leave their home)
Data workflows and algorithms to optimize the allocation of key resources in the health care supply chain. – Empa
Good quality data is essential to the decision making process but this is not always guaranteed or available. We need to take a critical look at the available data resources and find new approaches to alleviating the current burden.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Health care supply chains are struggling to meet the huge demand placed upon them and we are facing a crisis where difficult decisions need to be made regarding the allocation and deployment of key resources (PPE, ventilators, medicine, etc.).

Challenge

Good quality data is essential to the decision making process but this is not always guaranteed or available. We need to take a critical look at the available data resources and find new approaches to alleviating the current burden.

Potential solutions

A set of objective functions developed using available data resources. The process will involve four stages: Collection, Processing, Optimization, and Validation. This workflow will be demonstrated for a specific problem and could be adopted by future applications.

Needed resources

Openly available datasets will be the primary resource, but collaboration with data owners and producers is encouraged. This may include geographic information, patient ventilator needs, numbers of critical patients, hospital reserves for protective equipment, or information on critical new cases.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Empa
Capacity Tracker for Hospitals
Since we live in a decentralized health system with most hospitals and care centers being cantonal, communal or even private - we need to make sure that we can allocate the available (ICU) beds, ventilators, etc. as efficient as possible.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Soon, and partially already today, every COVID-19 patient gets the health care needed for a timely response to their illness (see the situation in neighboring countries)

Challenge

Since we live in a decentralized health system with most hospitals and care centers being cantonal, communal or even private - we need to make sure that we can allocate the available (ICU) beds, ventilators, etc. as efficient as possible.

Potential solutions

A system which allocates hospital / care center capacities to people / other regions, based on certain indices

Needed resources

Partners needed: Programmer, AI expert, comms person, federal and/or cantonal representative, anonymized health data
Supporting Medical Staff
Doctors and nurses are exposed to stress and high risk. Since they have to deal with very large number of patients due to the pandemic, any help could make their life easier, respectively more patients could benefit from on-time medical advice and care.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Medical staff is living currently an extremely challenging moment fighting with the nouvel covid-19 virus. They need support.

Challenge

Doctors and nurses are exposed to stress and high risk. Since they have to deal with very large number of patients due to the pandemic, any help could make their life easier, respectively more patients could benefit from on-time medical advice and care. If in one moment there will be no enough medical staff, there is a risk patients to spend time not being attended. And there is the risk that the hospital staff and infrastructure will be highly taxed.

Potential solutions

Different solutions have been suggested:
- Some task and initial help, e.g. administrative, organisational or any other where not medical education is strictly needed, could be performed by non-medical staff. Identify such tasks and activities and create on-line courses to learn how to be in help. These may be useful in case of any other type of crisis that the society can face in future. Better be prepared and share solidarity.
- Our mission is to build a safety net of voluntary supporters for hospitals and other care institutions in crisis.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Doctors, nurses, web-designer, on-line courses content development expert, etc
- https://www.medicalinformatics.ch/contribute
Healthdesk
Setting up a healthcare management system that works in the field within minutes.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Healthcare capacity is overshot and field hospitals have to be set up.

Challenge

Setting up a healthcare management system that works in the field within minutes.

Potential solutions

An application easing up the 4 major steps: triage, admission, bed management, and patient/health tracking.

Needed resources

We already have a very rough idea/prototype; we'd like to talk to more healthcare staff though. Potentially a dataset of symptoms vs actual risk would also help for triage assistance.
Treatment comparison
How can we allow medical professionals an easy exchange to share their medication and their success internationally?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

There is no approved therapy for Covid 19. The goal is to build a platform where medical professionals can share their medication and their success internationally. (Embola drugs, malaria drugs)

Challenge

How can we allow medical professionals an easy exchange to share their medication and their success internationally?

Potential solutions

Build a platform where medical professionals can share their medication and their success internationally. (Embola drugs, malaria drugs)
An ICU syringe pump in 30 min
To provide an "Ikea style" instruction set to build a pump, reliably, quickly, from a single-purchase set of parts (micro-controller, IDE, sensors, motor drivers, stepper motors, structural elements, gears, interface, power supply and backup), and already well spread around the …

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Syringe pumps may become scarce in ICUs during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Challenge

To provide an "Ikea style" instruction set to build a pump, reliably, quickly, from a single-purchase set of parts (micro-controller, IDE, sensors, motor drivers, stepper motors, structural elements, gears, interface, power supply and backup), and already well spread around the globe.

Potential solutions

We propose to use a single LEGO Technic set providing all needed parts (Mindstorms EV3), and code, design, document, and validate a pump. The community: LEGO enthusiasts, mechanical/medtech/quality engineers, developers, web designers, and quarantined ICU MDs/nurses.

Needed resources

Insights and typical specs of ICU syringe pump design and operation (from med and industry experts), people with EV3 Lego sets at home, and many more people (see prior non-exhaustive list).
Real-time monitoring of available beds for intensive care
Es ist nicht klar wann die kritische Grenze der verfügbaren Betten erreicht wurde.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Es gibt nur eine limitierte Anzahl Intensivbetten. Je nach Region unterscheidet sich die freie Anzahl solcher Betten

Challenge

Es ist nicht klar wann die kritische Grenze der verfügbaren Betten erreicht wurde.

Potential solutions

Lokale Infektionsraten sollen den verfügbaren Intensivbetten gegenübergestellt werden, um mögliche Aussagen zum kritischen Punkt zu treffen. So können kritische Patienten vorzeitig in andere Regionen transferiert werden, in denen es mehr Betten gibt

Needed resources

Anzahl Intensivbetten und Infektionsraten in den Regionen
Hospital Resource Planning
Linking epidemic prediction model(s) and thus expected patient flow with resource planing for beds, intensive care beds, personnel, medication, material

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Hospitals have a hard time to adapt their resource planning along the patient predictions. Historical experience is of little value. Calculation tools are missing.

Challenge

Linking epidemic prediction model(s) and thus expected patient flow with resource planing for beds, intensive care beds, personnel, medication, material

Needed resources

I have started to puzzle piece a calculator with different tools and from different sources. Started with an epidemic model in "R" (not done by me), transfered the results to calculate the needs in Excel. I have for many resources the ratios per patient at hand. But not for everything yet. Maybe that is something that the user can also specify him/her-self.
HowMany
Give the authorities a clear status of what is where and how much in order to be able to organize a flat distribution - even between countries! And be ready for the next pandemic or crisis!

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Before and during such a crisis, the authorities do not have a clear view and level of the stock of necessity material like masks, beds, respirators

Challenge

Give the authorities a clear status of what is where and how much in order to be able to organize a flat distribution - even between countries! And be ready for the next pandemic or crisis!

Potential solutions

A simple well done centralized database in the cloud (very easy to do)

Needed resources

Coders, database & open data specialists, testers
Build respirators
The objective is the development of a simplified ventilation device that is built with the help of a 3D printer and a few components so that it can be easily reproduced and assembled by volunteers all over the world.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Very likely we haven’t got enough respirators or other countries may need them or need them already.

Challenge

The objective is the development of a simplified ventilation device that is built with the help of a 3D printer and a few components so that it can be easily reproduced and assembled by volunteers all over the world. It’s already in progress and we habe to go from there and organise production in Switzerland. https://coresponse.github.io/blog/

Potential solutions

Check the situation and the need. Take part in design a respirator that can be printed with a 3-D-printer (if not accomplished by then already). Organise and produce respirators in Switzerland and give them to the hospitals in need.

Needed resources

See above, so far is the project in another country, all the rest is needed.
More outpatient (ambulant), less inpatient (stationär)
How can outpatient (ambulant) treatment be promoted in favour of inpatient (stationär) treatment through digital processes, products or services?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Emergency beds are apparently in short supply. Furthermore, there is a risk of infection for other patients in the hospitals. Caring for more people at home seems a good approach.

Challenge

How can outpatient (ambulant) treatment be promoted in favour of inpatient (stationär) treatment through digital processes, products or services?
Equinox
Immigrants don’t know how to find doctors who speaks their language, nearest to their location and that choose to ask reimbursement directly to the insurance, so they feel encouraged to visit.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Immigrants can’t get to the same language doctors

Challenge

Immigrants don’t know how to find doctors who speaks their language, nearest to their location and that choose to ask reimbursement directly to the insurance, so they feel encouraged to visit.

Potential solutions

Web platform with doctors listings and their location, filtered by language, location, price and way of payments

Needed resources

API with UX, POIS, with a recommendation architecture, online peer to peer payment method.
Le développement du microbiote du nouveau-né de mères covid-19 positives.
L'éloignement mère-enfant est un frein au développement du microbiote du nouveau-né et donc de son immunité (risque d'engendrer plus de pathologies, d'allergies ou d'intolérances par la suite chez ces enfants?).

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Context

Dans certaines maternités, dans le cas où la mère est covid positive ou suspecte, elle doit porter un masque et son enfant doit se tenir à 2 mètres d'elle sauf pendant l'allaitement. Dès le retour à domicile, ces mesures doivent-elles être maintenues? Qu'en est-il dans ce contexte du développement du microbiote du nouveau-né, reconnu comme étant indispensable au développement de son immunité?

Challenge

L'éloignement mère-enfant est un frein au développement du microbiote du nouveau-né et donc de son immunité (risque d'engendrer plus de pathologies, d'allergies ou d'intolérances par la suite chez ces enfants?).

Potential solutions

Maintenir le lien mère-enfant (peau à peau etc) tout en conservant les normes d'hygiènes standards. S'appuyer sur des études sur le microbiote du nouveau-né et sur l'effet du covid-19 sur eux pour soutenir les recommandations en vigueur dans les maternités puis à domicile.

Needed resources

Analyses d'études sur le développement du microbiote du nouveau-né (sujet en plein essor), sur l'impact du covid-19 chez les nouveaux-nés. Experts dans le domaine du microbiote.
Production of Vaccine – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
How can we guarantee that once a vaccine against Coivd-19 is available, production will start globally as soon as possible and will be decentralized and all countries will have access to sufficient doses of vaccine as soon as possible?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Hospital & Medical Care

Challenge

How can we guarantee that once a vaccine against Coivd-19 is available, production will start globally as soon as possible and will be decentralized and all countries will have access to sufficient doses of vaccine as soon as possible?

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Measuring the Social Burden – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
How can the psychological and/or social impact of the measures taken on society be assessed in order to make recommendations for the future?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

The measures implemented by the state cause many unwanted and unexpected consequences on the people's social life and psychology.

Challenge

How can the psychological and/or social impact of the measures taken on society be assessed in order to make recommendations for the future?

Potential solutions

Test new ways of analysing the impact of the COVID-19 measures on our lives (e.g. surveys, crowd-based mapping, "Bürgerforum") and summarises the discovered pros and cons of different measures based on the new insights.

Needed resources

An interdisciplinary and creative team.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge (without a suggested solution) has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Providing psychological support – Genève Lab (République et canton de Genève)
How do we support the population in regards to mental health? How can we make psychological support easy accesible (organized offers, language, quality) for existing patients and all during confinement?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Existing patients and the general population's needs in terms of psychological support may increase. Specially those who are who are psychologically and / or physically weakened, living alone or in institutions (health, prison, etc.) may see their condition worsened due to the lack of stimuli and outside social contact. Ambulatory psychiatric support is hard to access. People and families that already have difficulties dealing with the usual challenges of everyday life experience severe psychological distress (children at home, panic, isolation, economic uncertainty).

Challenge

How do we support the population in regards to mental health? How can we make psychological support easy accesible (organized offers, language, quality) for existing patients and all during confinement?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- A concept for a remote system (telephone or digital) allowing dedicated psychological support for the concerned target groups
- Plattform with praxis that offer online/telephone advice, specially in acute situations
- Link people with support dogs. Dogistics Management: create a smartphone application in order to facilitate synergy between the various actors in the cynological field (training institutions for service dogs, certified trainers, behaviorists, veterinarians, dog handlers and their dog according to the latter's specialization) and beneficiaries (and their referent for people with cognitive impairment affecting the ability to discern) Beneficiaries could be: people in emotional distress seeking contact with a "visiting" dog for a few hours;owners looking for educators / behaviorists; people with reduced mobility who are looking for a "permanent" dog via an institution; etc.
- Une plateforme ciblée, mais pas tous utilisent les moyens technologiques type ordinateur
- Self-help chatbot: A chatbot deals with different issues and proposes coping mechanisms for self-help
Needed resources

psychologists and social workers who know peoples' issues and the respective coping mechanism, Programmers, dog's professionals, UI/UX designers
Think tank,Ethics commission, Specialists in law of emerging technologies

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Genève Lab (State of Geneva)
Corona Pause - Good thoughts!
How can we help reduce feelings of isolation, anxiety, depressions and fear bringing a bit of good news and something positive and beautiful everyday instead of bad news?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Only bad news are available in all channels, and only about coronavirus. In these difficult times a daily beautiful flower can help to foster hope, bring joy and
bliss.

Challenge

How can we help reduce feelings of isolation, anxiety, depressions and fear bringing a bit of good news and something positive and beautiful everyday instead of bad news?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- Online Blogmaganize with inspiring posts, sharing also the diffculties of times
- Screen-Lock App: There is already an free MVP i.e. anti-app existing for iOS and Android: Flamboyant Flowers - it should be further enhanced and optimised with 365 Flowers - one for every day and promoted as carrier for hope - FLOWERS still grow and bloom - so can we all!
Needed resources

Nicolas has over 10000 consistent photographs in high-resolution of different flowers and the world wide copyrights. I have also gathered over 400 botanical names. Some examples here: https://www.flamboyantflowers.com/
Support through games
Can we help ease the isolation through access to games? How can we also help the system of prevention?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

While the biological coronavirus may not put most people's life at
stake, the virus affects us all in our mindset. Some of us may feel depressed, lonely, or just not see what they can do to help themselves and others. Without personal contact, it is difficult to play dice, card or other board games while skyping.

Challenge

Can we help ease the isolation through access to games? How can we also help the system of prevention?

Potential solutions

Several solution:
- Breathing Games Association (Fabio Balli): We built a functional platformer game (Unity C# / Photon) based on previous libre/open-source games and breath-through controller we developed and clinically tested. Now, we need to create attractive game levels, develop the story, characters, etc. A multiplayer online game to foster peer sharing, belonging, and fun in a constructive mindset. The game combines collaborative challenges and health-related contents.
- Swiss Social mGames: A WebApp with 2D graphics, everyone can create rooms using a unique name
- Create a sort of Skype app with the possibility of participants creating games themselves - whether with card or dices or even a custom card set.
- PandeMeet@CoronaEdition (Simona Mazzotta) is an application which turns scientifically proven preventive measures into a fun game! While performing your daily actions you will be awarded/subtracted points. Your score identifies you as “Safe/Unsafe to PandeMeet” among your friends.
Needed resources

Professional and passionate game designers, C# developers, sound and visual artists, data architects, mathematicians, etc. Web Developer (2D Graphics, Canvas), Artits drawing graphics.
- Simona Mazzotta needs only a server to host application
- Kyriakos is looking to join a team: We are 2 entrepreneurs with a PhD in Life Sciences and 1 psychologist. We ask for 1 more psychologist, 1 community manager and 1 graphic designer to help us launch asap..
Provide depression&suicide amoung adolescents – Berner Gesundheit
Wie kann der Handlungsleitfaden "https://www.bernergesundheit.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/praevention_depression_suizid_merkpunkte_handlungsleitfaden_lehrpersonen_d.pdf"; in ein digitales Tool (z.B. App) überführt werden?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Mit social distancing steigt das Risiko von Depression und Suizidalität bei Jugendlichen.

Challenge

Wie kann der Handlungsleitfaden "https://www.bernergesundheit.ch/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/praevention_depression_suizid_merkpunkte_handlungsleitfaden_lehrpersonen_d.pdf" in ein digitales Tool (z.B. App) überführt werden?

Potential solutions

Digitale app-Lösung

Needed resources

Expertise in digitaler Entwicklung

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Berner Gesundheit
Together against Isolation – Stadt Luzern
How can we connect isolated people? What are alternative ways to connect with others?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

People feel very isolated in their homes and miss having connection. Singles or people living alone miss conversations or social interaction. The COVID-19 crisis is besides a physical health problem becoming a social problem as well.

Challenge

How can we connect isolated people? What are alternative ways to connect with others?

Potential solutions

Suggested solution:
- Pandemic Buddies: Create a buddy system, where single people and families call each other daily to check in on each other
- Pool of listeners, tell me your day: A pool of volunteer listeners who will invest 1-2 hours a day in listening to lonely people.
- Online support: one to one sessions, group sessions, whatsapp groups, virtual get togethers. Keeping in contact.
- Provide easy accessible online-offerings for social exchange (like chats, online courses, tipps & tricks, readings, etc.) to stay mentally healthy
- A facilitated platform for specific groups where they can talk, share, encourage, and listen to others.
- Project Omnes (Fabian Wawro): Meditation online We've built an online platform allowing people from around the world to meditate together—regardless of their ethnic, religious, and social affiliations. So far, we've got a working prototype that can be found on www.omnes.live
- In some households, television sets are constantly on: people watching movies and Netflix series, surfing on social media. Could information be disseminated also on those channels.
Needed resources

UX/UI designers, Design Sprint team to initiate, create prototype and test with real users, psychologist, Sociologist, educator (primary, secondary school)

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

City of Lucerne
Developing needed technical skills
How to bring technical skills needed to combat isolation virtually?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Many people from all ages don't have sufficient technical know how to use technologies, set up video calls, use tech tools

Challenge

How to bring technical skills needed to combat isolation virtually?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- Online peer community: A one stop solution which helps organisations and peer groups to set up a mashup of technologies like Zoom, Telegram or Whatsapp
- Video conf4all: Self installing tablets to give access to videoconference to everyone, including the elderly part of the population
- Create an app that after installation allow you with just a few clicks to connect to someone you trust who then can see your screen and help you do what you want through vocal and visual feedback.
Surviving the confinent
How can we handle the associated challenges of personal health, home office/kindergarten, self-isolation, caring for the young and the elderly? Can we have some kind of guidance?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Families must adapt to these new configurations. Children must now learn from home, where home environmental factors can significantly affect their ability to learn effectively. Parents might be also overwhealmed.

Challenge

How can we handle the associated challenges of personal health, home office/kindergarten, self-isolation, caring for the young and the elderly? Can we have some kind of guidance?

Potential solutions

Suggested solutions:
- A mental health resource finder will allow parents to discreetly find resources that match their needs
- Guide of confinement: Propose a digital white paper
- Co-Videos (Russell Jones): short focused tutorials on aspects of handling life during the covid pandemic. For example, on self-care, on showing parents new routines for organizing their kids’ daytime at home, or physicians how to hack ventilators for several patients’ use.
Online Cooking Meetup
- People needs to eat, but together with others - People want to spend their time wisely and learn something new - People want to exchange with others about sustainable and healthy lifestyle
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

What do I eat?
- People have to stay at home and need to organize all their meals by themselves
- People can't share their meal anymore with friends or colleagues
How I use my time wisely?
- People have much time and don't know how to use it for self care (psychologically & physically)
Challenge
- People needs to eat, but together with others
- People want to spend their time wisely and learn something new
- People want to exchange with others about sustainable and healthy lifestyle
Potential solutions

Online Cooking Meetup

We offer people (e.g. organizer, cooking teacher, cooking students and experienced guests) the online platform “Cooking Meetup”. The goal is to cook as a group and to raise awareness about how to self care mind and body with a healthy meal.

Needed resources
- Project Leader
- IT Project Leader
- Programmer
- Researcher
- Social Media
- Growth Hacker
- Business Developer
- Product Owner
- Marketer
Life APP - Mentoring Platform
Connect / Matchmaker caregiver (mentors) to people in need. Reducing mental stress or feeling of loneliness. We can just matchmake person A to person B who wants to talk on a certain topic without cost = winwin for both.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Isolation & Mental Health

Context

Many people need mentoring, it can be any kind for private or business purposes. For example if people have to overcome financial shortages, mental issues or anxiety or physical challenges

Challenge

Connect / Matchmaker caregiver (mentors) to people in need. Reducing mental stress or feeling of loneliness. We can just matchmake person A to person B who wants to talk on a certain topic without cost = winwin for both. We have two AI engines we can use so we have a more "suffisticated" match of possible people.

Potential solutions

we already have around 100 experts in our network and would need the technical platform to connect these with people in need. Regarding payment we already have solutions.

Needed resources

tech people who can build an MVP (we have the description etc). We also have an amazing group of mentors, coaches, therapist etc.
Use the crisis to make the transition to a ressource-light economy
“In the rush to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to” - Dave hollis How to foster companies to use this crisis time to rethink their goals and structure and support them in transitioning their activities to resource-light and viable …

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

After the crisis, companies will be focussing on driving up their production, profits and efficiency rates - like in a post-war scenario. Experience has shown that these times are excessive in terms of emission and environment destruction rates.

Challenge

“In the rush to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to” - Dave hollis
How to foster companies to use this crisis time to rethink their goals and structure and support them in transitioning their activities to resource-light and viable ones on the long run?

Potential solutions

Promoting best practices from companies switching their activities/product designs/supply chains/business models into more resource light ones.

Needed resources

We have expertise in the Circular Economy and regulatory framework - please reach out for specific inputs or resources
Energy Infrastructure
How do we protect ourselves and especially the digital world, including telephony and money transactions, in case of a longer power failure.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Just like the economy, energy supply is also subject to only a few channels. This topic is often forgotten and only smiled at like the possibility of a pandemic.

Challenge

How do we protect ourselves and especially the digital world, including telephony and money transactions, in case of a longer power failure. Is it to be justified that we are only dependent on a few specialists who control our energy supply and can just as easily become the victims of a virus?
Unfreeze Democracy
There is a huge variety of tools for digital participation and online political education. How can we match them with the respective target group?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Democracy is currently on hold. Votations are postponed, collecting signatures became basically impossible, reunions on all federal levels are cancelled and political education ranks poorly in home-schooling priorities.

Challenge

There is a huge variety of tools for digital participation and online political education. How can we match them with the respective target group?

Potential solutions

We propose an interface where target groups and civic tech tools meet and try to find a way to bring those tools out of their current bubble.

Needed resources

There are already good tools and overviews for digital participation and online political education. We need someone to help us to create an efficient interface and the right channels to make the tools known to a larger public.
The Pandemia Parliament
It's a touch context: Parliaments are mostly unprepared for a crisis, and they're very much a paper-based, in-person affair. And it's a tough security and usability challenge. Plus there are very serious legal questions. It's tough. We need you.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Other

Context

Currently, democracy is down. Most parliaments can not meet. This is dangerous.
Some parliaments do meet, in person, but forbid the general population to meet. Dangerous.
Bringing parliaments on line is dangerous as well, but we must and will try.

Challenge

It's a touch context: Parliaments are mostly unprepared for a crisis, and they're very much a paper-based, in-person affair. And it's a tough security and usability challenge. Plus there are very serious legal questions. It's tough. We need you.

Potential solutions

We have clear requirements, compiled with leading experts. We have feasible implementation options, both from a legal and technical point of view - let's pick one -or several- and try to do a proof-of-concept.

https://md.schoolofdata.ch/M4vyv3OPSxeeSA4XjKxB3Q?both

Needed resources
- Developers, ideally with Webrtc experience and knowledge of the key platforms/ frameworks for secure conferencing, messaging and maybe voting
- Security experts
- Legal experts
- Members of any parliament on any level, plus staff, offices, etc.
- User Experience Designers
- Marketing specialists
Digital assemblies
General meetings and relevant votes are currently not possible. Online voting is not trusted.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Online assembly with voting for parliament, companies, associations

Challenge

General meetings and relevant votes are currently not possible. Online voting is not trusted.

Potential solutions

Do the assembly online and the democratic votes correctly so everyone can take part
Product information without paper
I want to provide the instruction information with the same certainty as taking the paper out of a product packaging but without having the paper in the package. In all available languages and without searching (Googleing) for the information.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Products (including medical devices and medicines) come with paper instructions that are not needed in most cases, especially not in the many languages. These paper documents have to be printed, packaged, transported and discarded, creating movements in our economy and society that have little value. How can we change this?

Challenge

I want to provide the instruction information with the same certainty as taking the paper out of a product packaging but without having the paper in the package. In all available languages and without searching (Googleing) for the information.

Potential solutions

A method that will allow a product user to get to the product instruction in the required language without making any selection or decision on her/his own.

Needed resources

Process specialists, legal experts, IT experts
Earth protect
Adapt the covid-19 measures to climate emergency.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

People die from consequences of climate destruction.

Challenge

Adapt the covid-19 measures to climate emergency.

Potential solutions

Implication of politics to force acceptation of climate measures

Needed resources

No idea, hence the challenge...
Overcoming Capitalism
The fear of not getting enough or losing something is still strong. How can it be replaced with the trust to always have enough to live?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Replacing money with real values (solidarity, curiosity, honesty) as driving factor for local and global society and its development.

Challenge

The fear of not getting enough or losing something is still strong. How can it be replaced with the trust to always have enough to live?

Potential solutions

Unbundling the complex networks of driving factors behind selfishness on personal, local and global levels. Things our government is already trying to understand.

Needed resources

A country or a world, to test and implement the idea. ;-) Or some experts from different fields of expertise, to proof the the resulting concepts.
Global Hackathon Collaboration
Breach the current isolation and unite similar entities all over the wolrd to show how a global and open collaboration is more effective than an isolated and selfish approach

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

All over the world, countries are isolating themselves, focusing on local issues above global collaboration. At the same time, many hackathons are being organised worldwide to find innovative solutions to the many problems which arised from this situation.

Challenge

Breach the current isolation and unite similar entities all over the wolrd to show how a global and open collaboration is more effective than an isolated and selfish approach

Potential solutions

Create a database to allow global hackatons to provide an open and free access to all the potentially successful solutions developed during the hackathons

Needed resources

Database managers, web-designers, hackaton experts
Meta-Hackathon less projects, more impact!
The way we collaborate is ineffective. For example, over 50 types of open-source ventilation machine are being built... no one ready to be used, even less in low-resource settings where people do not even know about such projects.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

Before the pandemic, only one human in two had access to essential care. Today, we see unprecedented collaborations. In March, 60 online hackathons were organized, the biggest mobilizing 18000 volunteers who created 1200 projects in four days.

Challenge

The way we collaborate is ineffective. For example, over 50 types of open-source ventilation machine are being built... no one ready to be used, even less in low-resource settings where people do not even know about such projects.

Potential solutions

We will create an open science, not-for-profit methodology to ensure collective performance: selecting projects with impact, prioritizing contributions, attributing resources and ensuring revenue generation and redistribution.

Needed resources

We launched http://coronavirus-openkit.net (editable) to list covid hackathons, and open hardware projects. We now need passionnate, talented people to develop a libre/open-source platform to allow for open calls, agile project management, value accounting, and collective decision-making (commons).
Hamster Purchase Manager
It is possible that many of the hamster purchases will expire, resulting in Foodwaste.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Other

Context

People shop like crazy. They may well lose track of the expiration dates of the products.

Challenge

It is possible that many of the hamster purchases will expire, resulting in Foodwaste.

Potential solutions

App, which scans the receipt and thus knows which products will expire when. This allows users to see a prioritized list of which products are to be used.

Needed resources

Interface to supermarket backend, which output data behind the barcode
Drug users
With the involvement of Ruth Dreyfus, BAG, KODA (Kantonal Heroingestützte Behandlung) and Prävention Sucht Schweiz address the issue of the decreased supply of illegal drugs, following the closure of the borders and its' impact if a very marginalised group, such as drug users.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Protect the health and housing of drug users, which in the current situation may be detrimentally affected by the COVID crisis, both by being part of a risk group as defined by BAG and also by showing increased risk behaviour, due to differnt factors (decreaesd drug supply, limited space for housimg for homeless etc)

Challenge

With the involvement of Ruth Dreyfus, BAG, KODA (Kantonal Heroingestützte Behandlung) and Prävention Sucht Schweiz address the issue of the decreased supply of illegal drugs, following the closure of the borders and its' impact if a very marginalised group, such as drug users.

The situation is such that through the closure of the borders, the drug supply has massively decreased, leading to increased prices, while the demand stayed the same. The situation leads to increased risk behaviour of drug users and may have a detrimental impact on the health situation, including the risk of protracting COVID-19. Furthermore, an increased number of drug users will now want to subscribe for State-sponsored programs (such as KODA), which only have limited capacity and may expose already existing patients of the program to increased risks.

Potential solutions

identify possibilities to decriminalise, develop a program which allows to ensure access to housing, health and social assistance for this type of marginalised groups and their support, including for their mental heath, through sufficient numbers of social workers, doctors, psychologists etc

Needed resources

Ex-Counsillor Ruth Dreyfus (experienced) and her NGO, rurther refer to Bund Artikel "Die Drogenszene gerät in Platznot"
Select least vulnerable for emergency services
Reduce mortality of emergency workers with large factor, estimated 400 times

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

All with diabetes, hypertension, IHD & atrial fibrillation must be put in quarantine

Challenge

Reduce mortality of emergency workers with large factor, estimated 400 times

Potential solutions

See http://honeymooney.com/COVID-19/IntelligentEconomic.htm and references therein

Needed resources

Either doctors access to medical records (if available) or individual examination with suitability certificate issued according to hypertension, IHD, diabetes, atrial fibrillation
Refugee/immigrants especially in hotspots in times of Covid-19
Refugees/immigrants are less informed regarding pandemia and precaution measures, while at higher risk as they are packed in limited services hotspots. How can we support refugees/immigrants in dissemination and prevention of Covid-19, while making them feel not forgotten?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Refugees/immigrants in hotspots live in poor hygiene conditions, isolated, marginalised, often in already in very difficult emotional/psychological and health conditions. They seem more exposed to Covid-19.

Challenge

Refugees/immigrants are less informed regarding pandemia and precaution measures, while at higher risk as they are packed in limited services hotspots. How can we support refugees/immigrants in dissemination and prevention of Covid-19, while making them feel not forgotten?

Potential solutions

A raising awareness campaign for the refugees as well as for the local population that would mobilise various partners and active citizens to concretely take action. From sending solidarity messages to prevention kits, to contributing to reduce their multiple discomfort through smart diffusion of cultural events of their origins.

Needed resources

I can produce videos to raise awareness and encourage solidarity actions. I can design and create an online cross-media platform to maximise the impact and the interactivity between marginalised refugees and the rest of society. I need translators and access to a hotspot preferably in Greece to test and implement the idea. And some funding would be nice :)
Being mobile without your own car – Bundesamt für Verkehr (BAV)
How do I get from A to B in the Corona period without my own car?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

During the corona pandemic it is recommended to keep your distance and avoid crowds. Nevertheless, we want to be mobile, e.g. to go shopping or help others.

Challenge

How do I get from A to B in the Corona period without my own car?

Potential solutions

Show all available means of transport for a location (on foot, bicycle, public transport, car/bike sharing, scooter, etc.)

Needed resources

Locations/availability of mobility services are needed. Some are included here: opentransportdata.swiss, maps.geo.admin.ch.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Bundesamt für Verkehr
Stop Crowds of People
When the weather improves, you take courage and go out for a short walk. Bad idea! Everyone is on the same trails and at the same time, you might think. Is there a "low-activity time"?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

I'm in the risk group. It is important to me to avoid other people as much as possible. How do I know when is the best time to go out into the fresh air without meeting too many people? There are too much people in supermarkets, public transportation, public places

Challenge

When the weather improves, you take courage and go out for a short walk. Bad idea! Everyone is on the same trails and at the same time, you might think. Is there a "low-activity time"?

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- Similar to the traffic jam/traffic report via Google Maps, roads can be displayed red/orange/green so that I can avoid contacts if possible
- Rotation of districts, or first letter of family name, or another way, to select who can go out for purchase etc; not the same timetable / opening and closing time for all the activities, so people doesn't move at the same time, also for school, etc
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Managers, directors, authorities
Let's use decentralisation to shield our people at risk
We need to identify at-risk people (and risky people) while protecting our individual liberties.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

In public, we can't know which strangers are at risk or are living with someone at risk. If we did, we could prioritize them (eg. Migros/coop delivery)

Challenge

We need to identify at-risk people (and risky people) while protecting our individual liberties.

Potential solutions

Let people wear something highly identifiable. No centralisation, no database but simple, local information sharing.

Needed resources

Finding suitable signs to wear and informing people. I have a few ideas, too be refined.
Grocery pickup stations
To have less people in supermarkets and waiting queues, to protect customers and employees.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Most only grocery shops with delivery are currently overwhelmed with demand and have lead times up to 2-3 weeks

Challenge

To have less people in supermarkets and waiting queues, to protect customers and employees.

Potential solutions

Create simple pickup stations so customers can get their prepacked grocery fast and easy - and contact-free.

Needed resources

I need a supermarket to test and implement the idea
Let's make Home Delivery Happen Again
There are not enough delivery companies to deliver food and necessities from supermarkets. Lidl and Aldi do not deliver at all. Coop@home and leshop.ch have 3 weeks waiting queues. Even though stocks are available to fulfill orders, delivery slots are not available.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

At risk people have to go to store in person because online grocery stores (leshop.ch and coopathome) cannot deliver. But people in the risk groups should not visit public places, like supermarkets.

Challenge

There are not enough delivery companies to deliver food and necessities from supermarkets. Lidl and Aldi do not deliver at all. Coop@home and leshop.ch have 3 weeks waiting queues. Even though stocks are available to fulfill orders, delivery slots are not available.

Potential solutions

Different solutions have been suggested:
- Healthy people who are ready to do personal shopping or delivery to door should do the work. Delivery has to be free of charge for the risk group customers. Either supermarkets or government has to pay for deliveries in order to prevent risk of spread of virus.
- Increase Capacity: Government help to provide additional vehicles and drivers. Optimize Capacity: Data mining of existing customer data and demographic data from canton to pool deliveries by building at set delivery times and to identify at persons at risk.
- Why not have Swiss Army providing (with payment) soldiers/trucks to backup delivery chain? Agreement with Swiss Army, agreement with distributors.
- 2 barcodes for each supermarket: Supermarket_ID_IN and Supermarket_ID_OUT. One user APP which scans the barcodes.. One Supermarket APP which can provide the real-time count of people inside, stats, blocking acceptance of new people if threshold-limit has been reached, signaling when allowance is available again. Registration/deregistration is totally anonymous (HASH of MAC addr).
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Mentors, network, resources are needed. Have a small team of 4 that have started development and business model definition.
- Migros and Coop management. Migros and Coop web developers to modify the code on their ecommerce sites. Government officials to approve resources and address required changed in data privacy and usage.
Accounting for Risk Factors – Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG)
What influence do different risk factors such as age, hypertension, cardiovascular disease or diabetes have on the course and mortality of COVID-19 cases (keyword: attributable risk, multivariate analyses, confounding)?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Challenge

What influence do different risk factors such as age, hypertension, cardiovascular disease or diabetes have on the course and mortality of COVID-19 cases (keyword: attributable risk, multivariate analyses, confounding)?

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

This challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Chilometrozero Km0
Development of a free online service to facilitate those who need: - Shopping from home - Receive groceries/goods at home
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Several vulnerable population groups are not allowed to go shopping (e.g.: major 65; people in quarantine, etc.). At the same time, small local producers do not have an eCommerce system (lack of skills and resources).

Challenge

Development of a free online service to facilitate those who need:
- Shopping from home
- Receive groceries/goods at home
Potential solutions

Currently the website https://www.chilometrozero.ch/ has been created to connect local producers (sellers) and consumers with a particular attention to the local products (focus: City of Lugano).
However, the website can be integrated/redesigned with new ideas, features, contents, together with a review of the user experience.

Needed resources

We have already a list of local producers (focus: City of Lugano).
A website: https://www.chilometrozero.ch/
Best practice: https://belocalhero.com/de/intro
Alternatives to large online suppliers
If the freedom of movement is further restricted and this help is no longer available, there are no alternatives. The large online retailers are completely overwhelmed, cannot be reached for days and, in addition, have no delivery dates open for more than 2 weeks.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

The supply of food for risk groups only works thanks to volunteers. Every person affected has to organise himself and decide where to find help and whether it is serious or not.

Challenge

If the freedom of movement is further restricted and this help is no longer available, there are no alternatives. The large online retailers are completely overwhelmed, cannot be reached for days and, in addition, have no delivery dates open for more than 2 weeks.
First line of support for the health infrastructure
How can we build a „first line of support“ for those concerned individuals in order to help unburden physicians and health care infrastructures?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Many concerned citizens seem to be seeking medical attention without necessarily being at risk and by doing so they’re diverting scarce ressources (capacity, time, energy) from where it‘s urgently needed.

Challenge

How can we build a „first line of support“ for those concerned individuals in order to help unburden physicians and health care infrastructures?

Potential solutions

Automated Questionnaires? Hotlines? Dedicated support groups?

Needed resources

Medical experts, trained personnel (i.e. Telmed), communications experts
Touchless Supermarkets
Users shall check-in when entering a supermarket and check-out when exiting, without touching any physical card in order to limit the amount of concurrent persons in shops.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

In supermarkets many people have to touch cards. If you go in a supermarket e.g. in Basel today, you are requested to take a physical card with a number on it. This card is given back when you leave the store. The next customer takes another free card, the cards are shared. This process was recently improved that at least the security cleans the cards - but still no cards, less risk

Challenge

Users shall check-in when entering a supermarket and check-out when exiting, without touching any physical card in order to limit the amount of concurrent persons in shops. Not having to touch physical number cards to control the flow of people in a supermarket when you have a smartphone.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- "2 barcodes for each supermarket: Supermarket_ID_IN and Supermarket_ID_OUT.
- One user APP which scans the barcodes. One Supermarket APP which can provide the real-time count of people inside, stats, blocking acceptance of new people if threshold-limit has been reached, signaling when allowance is available again. Registration/deregistration is totally. anonymous (HASH of MAC addr)." Online Queueing System with QR-Code integration + 2 displays at the entry, that's it
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- Need for 1-2 APP coders for iOS and Android platform + 1 BackEnd programmer. I can offer project architecture, mgmt and DB design.
- Angular-Developer and Web-Developer, Cookie-Expert
Flatten the Grocery Peak
Manage number of visitors over time. Avoid peeks and queues.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

People are visiting shops at unpredictable times. Peeks should be avoided. Only a limited amount of people are allowed inside supermarkets, leading to queus resulting in inconvenience and further infection risk.

Challenge

Manage number of visitors over time. Avoid peeks and queues.

Potential solutions

Different solutions have been suggested:
- Similar approach as the traffic jam function with google maps: Give people the means to decide in advance to which supermarket (with immediate capacity) to go to.
- To each store (visible in e.g. google) a queuing mechanism can be "added" by the store itself. Visitors can plan their visit via an App. Input factors: Max visitors at same time, type of visitor (working, retired..), est. slot needed, favorite time of visit. A slot is proposed by App.
- Development of a mobile app capable of displaying the capacity of each location in real time and showing relevant news.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- App coding ability would be needed
Shopping coridoor for Risk Groups
Avoid mixing up people from the Risk Group with all other people.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

The majority of the people are going directly to the supermarket to buy food rather than ordering on-line, which lately is almost impossible. Among these people, there are many belonging to the Risk Group (65+ or with some chronic illness). They are exposed to a higher risk of catching the virus by sharing the same space with all other people. The same situation is valid when they have to go to the pharmacy.

Challenge

Avoid mixing up people from the Risk Group with all other people.

Potential solutions

Reserve a time slot in the supermarkets and in the pharmacies, e.g. from 9 to 11 from Monday to Friday, only for people from the Risk Group to go shopping. All other people can go shopping outside this time slot.

Needed resources

No technology is needed, but a social tolerance and agreement with the supermarket chains like Coop, Migros, Manor and the pharmacies. Once agreed, it should be communicated on TV, Radio, Social Media and put into practice.
What is needed are contacts in these organisations to discuss the feasibility in implementing of such preventive measure.
Anticip'action
We will help high-risk population to think about their advance directives before it is too late. This requires to reflect on one’s end of life, clarify values and priorities, choose a legal representative and decide to what medical interventions we consent

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

With the coronavirus unnecessary and unwanted treatment should be avoided. A therapeutic withdrawal is a difficult decision to make but can be facilitated by knowing patient's priorities and by knowing who to contact. This is why advanced directives are crucial

Challenge

We will help high-risk population to think about their advance directives before it is too late. This requires to reflect on one’s end of life, clarify values and priorities, choose a legal representative and decide to what medical interventions we consent

Potential solutions

Anticip'action: a smartphone game to play with a loved one or caregiver. It will consist of two parts 1) anticipating, setting priorities and objectives of care 2) planning actions in line with these objectives (ask someone to become a legal representative)

Needed resources

We need computer developers, graphic designers and translators (from french to german and from french to italian)
Corona Reduit - Voluntary risk group isolation in hotels of the beautiful Swiss Alps
Helping risk persons to voluntarily isolate in dignity and supporting the suffering hotel and tourism industry of the Alps while doing it. Also enabling low risks persons to be less constrained.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Protection of Risk Groups

Context

Risk groups need special protection. It is very difficult to isolate high risk persons in major agglomerations with high population density. There are about 40000 empty hotel beds in the remote Alpine villages due to the shutdown.

Challenge

Helping risk persons to voluntarily isolate in dignity and supporting the suffering hotel and tourism industry of the Alps while doing it. Also enabling low risks persons to be less constrained.

Potential solutions

There are about 40000 empty hotel beds in the remote villages of the alps. Let's turn them into "corona reduits", ie voluntary refuges for high risk people. Risk of infection is much lower in rural areas and isolation/hygiene may be controlled more efficiently.

Needed resources

Publicity, health care and hygiene advice, IT based coordination, support from local governments (isolation control), the hotel and tourism industry, test kits to make sure no infected person participates. transport of risk people, financing from the federal government.
Promoting collaboration between expats and locals in the Basel region
Through various established communication channels such as their website and social media, BaselConnect regularly engages the expat community by sharing activities and information that promotes collaboration in the region. This is even more important during this time of crisis.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

There are 50,000+ expats living and working in the region. Many have stayed because this is their home and they are continuing to work to support the economy. Founded as a Verein in 2011, BaselConnect specializes in supporting this community.

Challenge

Through various established communication channels such as their website and social media, BaselConnect regularly engages the expat community by sharing activities and information that promotes collaboration in the region. This is even more important during this time of crisis.

Potential solutions

Leveraging our available communication channels and resources, we can extend the reach of support to the expat community during this pandemic. By providing accurate and engaging content that will help the community better understand and cope with current events.

Needed resources

We have the channels of communication available and the experience to reach out to the expat community. We are looking for content creators, web publishers, communication professionals, translators (German to English) and locals interested in collaboration with expats.
Help for the homeless
A lot of homeless people cannot find a place for the night. There is a run on free spaces. Normally they given out daily, now in longer periods eg. 1 week to prevent corona from spreading. Loads of people have to find solutions on their own and remain outside.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

Shelters for homeless people radically reduced capacity due to social distancing. Already normally too few spaces, now >50% less.

Challenge

A lot of homeless people cannot find a place for the night. There is a run on free spaces. Normally they given out daily, now in longer periods eg. 1 week to prevent corona from spreading. Loads of people have to find solutions on their own and remain outside. How can we help this?

Potential solutions

People can provide garden huts, camping vans, containers, pensions ... ? But tricky to avoid that the homeless might get too comfortable and stay.

Needed resources

Lists of alternatives (should also be available offline. But most homeless people do not have smartphones with internet access)
Deployment of volunteers
Most of trained volunteers are themselves part of the Risk Group ( > 65 years old) and can therefore not be deployed for many of the "front" activities (eg Autofahrdienste, shopping, visiting lonely people…). How can we increase the number of younger volunteers ?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

There is a huge demand for additional social volunteer services in the present Coronavirus Crisis, particularöy for aged and vulnerable people

Challenge

Most of trained volunteers are themselves part of the Risk Group ( > 65 years old) and can therefore not be deployed for many of the "front" activities (eg Autofahrdienste, shopping, visiting lonely people…). How can we increase the number of younger volunteers ?
Solidarity with refugees
We should improve the conditions of the refugees in these emergency facilities especially during the corona crisis. Many people think about the risk groups who live among us in our society and are not seperated from us. That is needed, but we also need to think of the refugees!
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

Refugees live in so called emergency accommodations (Notunterkünfte) with many people in the same room and terrible hygienic conditions here in switzerland. They have a high risk to get infected with corona. Besides that their mental health condtions during these times are even more at stake because german courses (e.g. at ASZ Zurich) and sport activities outside the possibilities are not visitable.

Challenge

We should improve the conditions of the refugees in these emergency facilities especially during the corona crisis. Many people think about the risk groups who live among us in our society and are not seperated from us. That is needed, but we also need to think of the refugees!

Potential solutions

1.To try to improve their actual living situation. There are a lot of free hotel rooms during this crisis. And I think possibly some hotel owners would offer the refugees their rooms. This might be difficult due to the law situation. Twice a day the refugees have to subscribe themselves on a list in their accommodation to get their daily money (8.50 CHF). But may be there is a way of negotiating with the firm who is in charge of the accommodations (in canton Zurich: ORS Service AG) or even the state secretary for migration (SEM).
I contacted a lawyer known in migration law about the possibilities one might have.
1. Setting up a platform where refugees can share their concerns with the general public and by that making more people aware of their situation during this crisis. I think many more people would be interested in their situation during these times. This could raise the pressure for government officials to provide them better accommodations.
About the general situation of the refugees in the emergency accommodations: https://wo-unrecht-zu-recht-wird.ch/de/Hintergrund/Nothilfe---Hintergrund
https://www.woz.ch/-784c

Thesituation of the hotels: https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/schweizer-hotels-in-der-corona-krise-die-zimmer-sind-zu-im-tourismusland-137174953

Needed resources

Someone who can fastly setup a website where refugees could post commentaries about their situation; Anyone who is interested to help them and has some ideas what else to do to improve their situations
Platform for Solidarity – Stadt Luzern, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG)
How can we connect volunteers with people who need help (elders, disadvantaged, businesses, farmers, etc.)? How can we merge the already existing platforms or make them better?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

We should have a simple way to connect with each other to request and offer our own skills, goods and services locally. Businesses or people, we all need help and we all can provide it through a local exchange. Seniors and other at-risk populations living at home need help, especially now that they are often alone and confined to their homes. But there are already too many services offering help/volunteering.

Challenge

How can we connect volunteers with people who need help (elders, disadvantaged, businesses, farmers, etc.)? How can we merge the already existing platforms or make them better?

Potential solutions

Several potential solutions have been suggested:
- Map adresses of volunteers and people in need on a map in order to solve the trust and communication gap between the risk groups and the people who could potentially support them. Our operations should be automated and an online passport validation solution integrated to remediate trust issues.
- One GoTo point could help get an overview so that everybody who wants to help can help and who need help get help. Participation / community platform with voting features to display and prioritize people's needs and provide solutions as well as tips and tricks and ideas
- Collect people's needs (e.g. physiological, mental, social, information, economical, etc.) to provide customer oriented solutions and offerings.
- Merge existing platforms.
- Develop a new tool to allocate competencies / resources within a dynamic group of agents and beyond. The Beta version is live already (https://helpwithcovid.opendata.ch). The mother site helpwithcovid.com is live and successfully solves the problem for the US. Let's build upon what we have and launch the project in Switzerland!
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- We have a programmer and a list of service providers already, but we need a graphic designer and help with communication.
- Software engineering (Ruby) to build out features.
- Community Managers to moderate and curate the community
- Marketers/PR specialists to help the project grow
- webdevelopper, appdevelopper, project mananager, graphics designers and front end developers (ReactJs), backend developers (AWS, NodeJs), communication guru, social media devil
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Repeated submission by: City of Lucerne, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG)
Solidarity even after the crisis
After the corona crisis, how does society manage to continue to behave in solidarity and in a friendly manner with each other via bottom-up approaches and not just on command or top-down?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

The company receives many instructions during the crisis (top-down).

Challenge

After the corona crisis, how does society manage to continue to behave in solidarity and in a friendly manner with each other via bottom-up approaches and not just on command or top-down?

Potential solutions

It would be desirable for society not only to identify itself through materialistic values and surrender to a superficial world, but to reflect on its values and cohesion - as in the current times of crisis.
Solidarity action for Swiss SME's and highly stressed workers due to the corona crisis.
Highly stressed groups of people (people at the front) with little time // Local shops with slump in sales.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

The corona crisis has resulted in the majority of businesses being on forced vacation since Tuesday. Despite the measures taken by the Confederation and the cantons, the existence of many small and micro-enterprises as well as individual businesses is acutely threatened. While the shops are desperately looking for work, other groups of people are in constant employment (e.g. people working in sales or logistics, or in the health sector). In times of coronavirus, these professional groups should be able to count on the solidarity and support of the Swiss population.

Challenge

Highly stressed groups of people (people at the front) with little time // Local shops with slump in sales.

Potential solutions

Objective: To professionalize support for particularly stressed groups of people during the period of Corona and at the same time to offer added value to companies that have been shaken by the crisis On one platform, Swiss citizens can select and pay for goods and services. These goods are then donated to particularly stressed groups of people and their relatives. The goods and services are supplied directly by local businesses.

landing page: (first idea) can be found on www.powerpandas.ch.

Needed resources

Developers / contacts / ideas further refined
The Selfish Hamster
This spiral and hype is neither sustainable, nor fair and we produce too much waste in the next months. How can we address this?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

People (called 'selfish hamster') are stockpiling toilet paper, food, base nutrition for a "lock-down" for a few weeks.

Challenge

This spiral and hype is neither sustainable, nor fair and we produce too much waste in the next months. How can we address this?

Potential solutions

Let the user enter his "emergency stock" and show excessive behavior in a funny way🚽. And propose locations, non-profit organizations to donate your stockpiling to.

Needed resources

But we need non-profits, organizations, couriers who can transport (e.g. Swiss Post, SBB) or deliver nutrition. Farmer who are not able to distribute their goods should be able to onboard.
Teach - Skills complete
CoVid-DeMystifier: digital legal advice
Common legal questions should be answered quickly and easily.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is currently a great deal of uncertainty in the company regarding legal issues relating to short-time work, extraordinary terminations, childcare and daycare centres, cancellations and reimbursement of travel, holiday and overtime payments forced by the employer, issues relating to tenancy law, and much more.

Challenge

Common legal questions should be answered quickly and easily.

Potential solutions

Several solutions have been suggested:
- The aim of this hack is to create a chat bot that can answer legal questions in the aforementioned context or refer to corresponding further information so that the company can be helped easily, quickly and around the clock.
- On JUSTUS, lawyers, solicitors and legal experts can upload their FAQs to the database using a simple form. The database is accessible to everyone and thus offers free and easy legal advice (in context to the COVID-19) to the entire population.JUSTUS is being developed as a chatbot that will guide those seeking advice to their specific answer.
Needed resources

Different resources have been requested:
- data for answers to legal questions exist. Other public sources for legal questions and answers and other useful information would be interesting.
Additional developers for Data Engineering, Frontend and Bot are welcome to contact us.
- I have already a team to develop the ChatBot and finish the plattform. BUT we need Content (= FAQs)! Therefore, every media appearance helps us to draw the attention of legal experts, lawyers and attorneys to read in content! The more content we have, the more central the database becomes for those seeking advice! (JUSTUS.covid-19 edition)
Citizen to Citizen Purchasing Platform
Too difficult (or impossible) to go grocery for elders, slow service (or big waiting) on actual deliverys from big grocery supermarkets

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

Risk people must stay at home but needs some help to live in good conditions. Elders, but not only them, need to receive faster the ordered food at home

Challenge

Too difficult (or impossible) to go grocery for elders, slow service (or big waiting) on actual deliverys from big grocery supermarkets

Potential solutions

We need to have a platform to connect drivers and risk people, and organize the logistics between them. Create a selection line of max 200 item (food & drink) where user can select via internet/phone/e-mail + a preparation line which can fasten so the deliveries
Meeting the needs of the most vulnerable countries – Ständige Mission der Schweiz bei der UNO in Genf
connecting the needs/demand from the most vulnerable countries, NGOs, international organizations in the form of challenges and the capacities of the private sector to provide solutions

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

The population of low-income countries will suffer disproportionately from the current crisis, not only in terms of health but also socially and economically. Needs will explode. Many actors, particularly in the private sector, want to help but are unaware of the challenges, and development aid organisations are too busy responding to needs to enter into dialogue with each of the actors.
International and humanitarian organizations have defined and are in the process of revising a prevention and response plan in support of the affected populations.
It would therefore be useful to have a platform that would allow affected populations, as well as humanitarian and development aid organisations to post their specific requests for assistance, the challenges they are facing so that they can be taken up by actors ready to propose solutions to meet them. Such a platform could thus facilitate a 'match-making' of supply and demand, resulting in a festival of innovations.
Framework prevention and response plan in support of the plan and inter-agency humanitarian appeal.

Challenge

connecting the needs/demand from the most vulnerable countries, NGOs, international organizations in the form of challenges and the capacities of the private sector to provide solutions

Potential solutions

offer a platform that facilitates matchmaking

Needed resources

digital skills, knowledge of the context of poor countries and NGOs, platform competence

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Swiss Mission to the United Nations in Geneva
FLAG21@Home
The challenge is to create 15-minute sports training videos in the most common languages of asylum seekers. These will be broadcast on a YouTube channel newly created by our association.
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Support & Solidarity

Context

FLAG21 has been forced to temporarily suppress the weekly Saturday morning running trainings given by our migrant coaches due to the confinement. We believe that it is necessary for the physical and mental health of everyone, especially the asylum seekers, to continue to practice physical activity. The supports currently offered by public and private channels (Leman Bleu, Different sports clubs) are often not very accessible for people who do not do sport or do not do much sport and who do not speak French well

Challenge

The challenge is to create 15-minute sports training videos in the most common languages of asylum seekers. These will be broadcast on a YouTube channel newly created by our association. The challenge is on two levels: 1) technical in order to produce quality videos in a context of confinement, therefore with limited equipment (natel) 2) broadcasting to target populations, some of them not yet aware of our association.

Potential solutions
1. technical: we rely on the skills of our volunteers to give advice and a helping hand. 2) for dissemination, social networks, the personal networks of our members, in particular the very committed applicants of the association, the more official channels such as the BIE for the canton of Geneva.
Needed resources

technical expertise in audio-visual and optimal use of youtube, networks outside the canton of geneva to broadcast the videos in other parts of switzerland. financing if the project grows. We have also started to develop a partnership with Tade Abraham who knows FLAG21 and Generali Suisse who is currently presenting a live program on Zoom with Fit@Home.
Detailed map of cases by region
How to give a local view on the problem?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

To follow the evolution of Covid-19 cases by Swiss region, and even district or commune.For this it is proposed this: establish a website allowing primary care physicians to register confirmed covid-19 cases daily. And recommend the primary care physicians to register on the site the number of cases of Covid observed daily. Include FMH in the project would be a good option.We can also do approximations

Challenge

How to give a local view on the problem?

Potential solutions

Potential solutions submitted: Establish a tool for a Survey: "Evolution of Covid cases by Swiss régions" liased to website allowing primary care physicians to register confirmed covid-19 cases (daily)

Needed resources

Personally I don't have time resources to work out the solution. So this proposal is sent only as suggestion. Perhaps a team may wish to consider and implement this proposal.
Hard facts & Herd inmunity
How can we have date reporting, aggregating and analysis of data on hospitalized Covid-19-patients as well of patients in ICUs? How can we make qualitative predictions about an end of the COVID Crisis in relation to the known data on herd inmunity?

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

We need to know how heavy the burden on the hospitals accross Switzerland with Covid-19-cases is. We need reliable epidemiological dat and a clear overview of the evolution of COVID-19 Crisis

Challenge

How can we have date reporting, aggregating and analysis of data on hospitalized Covid-19-patients as well of patients in ICUs? How can we make qualitative predictions about an end of the COVID Crisis in relation to the known data on herd inmunity?
und dadurch qualitative Aussagen über ein Ende der COVID Krise treffen.

Needed resources

Daily update on the number of SARS-Cov2 positive patients in Swiss hospitals per canton or district. Herdenimmunität = 1- (1/R0) -> R0= Ansteckungsfaktor. Wenn eine
Person im Schnitt drei weitere Personen ansteckt -> R0 = 3. Daten
über Infektionsraten
CrowdVsCOVID - Sharing publications for medical experts – Citizen Cyberlab, Universität Genf, Institute of Global Health, Citizen Science Center Zürich (ETH Zürich und Universität Zürich)
While machine learning algorithms can handle large volumes of data quickly, the reliability of AI results, when dealing with highly context-specific information, can limit their usefulness.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

During this global pandemic, unprecedented amounts of information are being generated on social media and in academic research publications. Some of this is useful, a lot is not. The extreme rates at which data is being produced, and the need for professional health experts and epidemiologists to parse this data and extract useful information and results rapidly, is proving to be a major challenge. Our doctors should have quick access to research and news regarding virus treatments

Challenge

While machine learning algorithms can handle large volumes of data quickly, the reliability of AI results, when dealing with highly context-specific information, can limit their usefulness. Humans need to be in the loop, to deal with the cases that machines simply don’t get right. And this has to be done in a way that ensures human bias is kept to a minimum. - Develop a virtual assistant to query and search research papers

Potential solutions

In CrowdVsCovid, we invite participants to test and improve a brand new open-source Swiss crowdsourcing platform, called Citizen Science Project Builder. This is a project developed by ETH Zurich, University of Zurich and University of Geneva, and being made available to researchers everywhere, free. Whether you’re a coder, a scientist or a concerned citizen, you can help improve this platform. By the end of the hackathon, with your help, we’ll have learned a lot more about how to extract reliable, actionable and time-sensitive information out of a large set of Covid-19-related data, by combining machine learning and crowdsourcing. - Open data sets https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge

Needed resources

Data needed: Social Media streaming data / open access science publications
Expertise: software developers and interaction designers (for tweaking the platform); epidemiologists & medical researchers (to validate results); concerned citizens who want to contribute their time and effort.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

Submitted by: University of Geneva -Citizen Cyberlab, Institute of Global Health ETH Zurich and University of Zurich - Citizen Science Centre Zurich. - individual
Health data mapping
Which governance tools do we need in Switzerland and globally to collect and manage trustworthy health data in the context of pandemics? How can we create a level playing field which enables health data sharing initiatives to reach decision-makers?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

We need to have a better live view of the population health, citizen’s health conditions and related personal data, which is collected by non-governmental actors and initiatives could be
leveraged for more informed decision-making and help international coordination bodies to respond more rapidly to pandemics.

Challenge

Which governance tools do we need in Switzerland and globally to collect and manage trustworthy health data in the context of pandemics? How can we create a level playing field which enables health data sharing initiatives to reach decision-makers?

Potential solutions

Evaluate the number (extrapolation) of people affected on a map based on anonymous data entered with the agreement of each voluntary person on an mobile app. Self evaluation of symptomes for each user: 1) Agreement of data / explaination message to confirm (IMEI/GPS/other data)
1. The application will ask for values or on a scale--> [fever, body aches (muscle pain), not hungry (sudden loss of smell and loss of taste), cough (dry or oily), difficulty breathing (feeling of tightness or shortness of breath), headache, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, tiredness] 3) The app will ask for [Age, size, sex, weight] 4) Send (or resend if any update to do) to the datacenter for analysis for graph and maps --> data include Mobile [IMEI and GPS data] to have a unique Identifier and for the localisation. For the IMEI, only the Hash (ie SHA-2) should be send not the full number of IMEI. Another solution could be the set up of a data trust platform defining common standards and guidelines for data processing and sharing. Switzerland could be a pilot for global cooperation to follow.
Needed resources

Cloud Eng. and app develloper - Developers (Midata Switzerland); Health data standardisation experts
(WHO; Health Level 7- Switzerland; ITU/WHO Focus Group on AI for health
(FG-AI4H); Healthcare authorities (Fed. Office of Public Health).
Web-based tool for outbreak developemement prediction.
Simulate as precisely as possible how the outbreak will evolve in Switzerland or in other countries. This could potentially be used by authorities, privates or companies to choose which measures to adopt.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Predictions for the future weeks of how the COVID-19 outbreak will develop in different countries is highly diverse and imprecise, mainly because of the high number of parameters and the scarcity of data.

Challenge

Simulate as precisely as possible how the outbreak will evolve in Switzerland or in other countries. This could potentially be used by authorities, privates or companies to choose which measures to adopt.

Potential solutions

The possible approaches are: partial differential equations of pandemic diffusion, machine learning, recursive estimation, etc.

Needed resources

Large amounts of reliable data (for training/testing) are needed for this project. For this project, the following fields of expertise are welcome: web development, general programming, knowledge of model simulation and analysis, mathematical knowledge about virus diffusion.
Speak the truth
Providers of authoritative COVID-19 information cannot reach a particularly vulnerable part of their target audience

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Speakers of other languages than DE, FR, IT and EN, and the functionally illiterate (15% of Swiss adults) are cut from official COVID-19 information and therefore particularly vulnerable to the “infodemic” spreading on social media (eg. Whatsapp audio messages)

Challenge

Providers of authoritative COVID-19 information cannot reach a particularly vulnerable part of their target audience

Potential solutions

A simple system where speakers of a language can translate and/or record the information and then directly share it on social media. The message will maintain a "backlink" so that it can be verified, and that misuse can be flagged.

Needed resources

We would very much benefit from the support of a provider of authoritative information (eg. FOPH/BAG/OFSP). We also would benefit from coders who could implement the verification/certification mechanism. Also a designer for the overall solution. We _do_ have technical expertise in web-based translation and audio recording solutions, and we do have access to a very large community of volunteer translators (Translators without Borders). ngolimi (https://ngolimi.org) -- we're a brandnew nonprofit association in language technology
Mail- und Websiteverifizierung
gesucht sind einfache Massnahmen zur Verifizierung offizieller Mails und Websiten: es sollte auf möglichst einfache Weise für jedermann - auch ohne IT Kenntnis - möglich sein, ein Mail/Website als echt zu identifizieren.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Es sind immer mehr Fakemails in Umlauf, welche auf Fakewebsites verlinken

Challenge

gesucht sind einfache Massnahmen zur Verifizierung offizieller Mails und Websiten: es sollte auf möglichst einfache Weise für jedermann - auch ohne IT Kenntnis - möglich sein, ein Mail/Website als echt zu identifizieren.

Potential solutions

PGP basierte Signifizierung und Identifikation? Viel einfachere Tools als heute, for dummies (Button „echt?“ klicken)
Recovery for people and planet throughout the pandemic and its impacts
Especially developing countries and the poor in rich countries do not have much capacity to deal with both the health and the economic impact of the pandemic.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

The most vulnerable people in all countries are set to be most impacted by the pandemic. Also, the pandemic might have positive impacts in the short term for the environment, but is is far from sure that the recovery lasts, for example through green stimulus and a focus on human needs and well-being.

Challenge

Especially developing countries and the poor in rich countries do not have much capacity to deal with both the health and the economic impact of the pandemic. How can we craft policy advice or at least a list of principles that can guide policy makers in making the tough decisions that are ahead? A singular economic or health perspective would not be sufficient as we need a systems perspective to demonstrate how all policy areas are connected. This could build on work that has been done on linking different SDGs.

Potential solutions

A short but comprehensive list of principles with a clear explanation could be useful

Needed resources

A group of experts from a wide variety of fields would be useful to craft a list of principles with an explanatory document that reflects a systems perspective.
ConnectForGood
Interoperability, timely information sharing and precise data exchange between most important actors in the COVID-19 epidemiological situation.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Seamlessly connect key actors in the COVID-19 response chain. Transmit the information from the individual person and population to the hospitals and researchers, analyze and disseminate accurate details back to the community.

Challenge

Interoperability, timely information sharing and precise data exchange between most important actors in the COVID-19 epidemiological situation.

Potential solutions

Data exchange may be done with our InfoMaster information management framework.

Needed resources

Anyone who wants to collect data, make triage app, maintain connectivity with other actors and simulate the real-world environments where information is transferred to healthcare facility (or authorities) and vice versa.
Federal and cantonal digital pandemic plan
The pandemic plans are to be structured in as common a manner as possible and hierarchically represented in a database in several layers (Confederation - cantons - optionally others).

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

The Confederation and cantons have drawn up their pandemic plans technically independently of each other. They are available from the Confederation, for example, as PDF files, but not as raw data. Similarities and differences between the individual pandemic plans can therefore only be evaluated by reading through them. This makes intercantonal cooperation more difficult.

Challenge

The pandemic plans are to be structured in as common a manner as possible and hierarchically represented in a database in several layers (Confederation - cantons - optionally others). This should avoid duplication, so that a super ordinate layer (canton) includes a part of the plan of the layer below (Confederation) if it is identical. On the one hand, this should be covered in a (password-protected) data entry area. On the other hand, there should be a public area in which, on the one hand, the entire pandemic plan can be studied and, on the other hand, differences between a canton and the Confederation or between individual cantons can be shown.

Potential solutions

A web platform is to be created based on an open source software solution. The software will be designed in such a way that other similar federal needs can also be covered, such as data protection regulations for example.

Needed resources

On the one hand, it needs developers who write the software together. On the other hand, it needs one or more cantonal managers who are willing to enter their pandemic plan on the platform. In addition, the 128-page federal pandemic plan must be entered as a basis.
FAST2GOV - Notification Portal - Design a BAG-Datawarehouse
Different values are published by different authorities, people, economy, media feel unsure about what to believe. Fast change to current systems is impossible with 26 cantons. This leads to a daily backlog and outdated figures.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

At present, the doctors pass on the number of newly infected corona patients to the cantonal authorities by phone/fax every evening. From there they are forwarded to the federal government. This creates daily time delay, substantial effort, outdated figures and is error-prone. Government needs correct real-time data to make good decisions to fight the spread of the virus, the people need to see the correct data to understand and support the sanctions taken by the government. Different values are published by different authorities, people, economy, media feel unsure about what to believe. Fast change to current systems is impossible with 26 cantons.

Challenge

Different values are published by different authorities, people, economy, media feel unsure about what to believe. Fast change to current systems is impossible with 26 cantons. This leads to a daily backlog and outdated figures. How can we create a high quality Swiss-wide Covid-DB?

Potential solutions

Potential solutions: - A cloud-based solution is needed that allows doctors to enter their data electronically and then make it immediately available to the cantons and the Confederation. - Provide a web portal for initial reporting of infections by doctors and
hospitals. Anonymous data is persisted for making accurate real-time statistics about the current situation. The portal provides the filled in declaration form for further processing according to the current workflow. - (Next solution is from Bram Stieltjes, please contact for more info): A Data catalogue was created and can be expanded, central DB and interaction protocols can be designed

Needed resources

Database architect, Java developer, ux designer, PO, SM - Fed. Office of Public Health as center of coordination for all healthcare organizations (doctors, hospital, labs, Kantonsärzte) + Companies like Swiss Post to provide authentication and authorization infrastructure + A DevOps team. Bram has test data-sets, we could anonymize them for test purposes
Covidfact
Swiss population have too many information sources, complex dashboard and do not easily access a quick checkup to pre.screen if they have or not the Covid-19.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Covifact.ch is a chatbot enbaling the swiss population to recieve latest information, news and data on the coronvirus. During the hackathon we will test our first version which include a quick checkup pre-screen allowing swiss poulation to know if they have or not the Covid -19 and what are the recommended steps.

Challenge

Swiss population have too many information sources, complex dashboard and do not easily access a quick checkup to pre.screen if they have or not the Covid-19.

Potential solutions

We would like to provide them a all in one trustable chatbot where they will receive Covid-19 information, news, trends and any other how to work form home tips

Needed resources

Our team of 5 people would need a UI & UX person
Science and Facts for the Future
Science already warned us of several different things in the past but was ignored by the general population and political movements. Often there is also a political interpretation of scientific data, which should be avoided.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

The current challenge shows that we're not giving science a big enough platform in our society.

Challenge

Science already warned us of several different things in the past but was ignored by the general population and political movements. Often there is also a political interpretation of scientific data, which should be avoided.

Potential solutions

Now there should be used the drive to promote the outcome of research and make it more accessible for everyone to prevent future crisis. It could be a platform or just create a different social structure (Scientists instead of Politics?)

Needed resources

Scientists and Politicians, Journalists and Marketing Geniuses to package hard to understand and interpretable science into "everyday" language.
Trust your medications
Provide a Swiss online updated platform (or app') with trusted information on drugs efficacy and safety in COVID-19, patients Q/A and evidence from current clinical studies for healthcare professionals.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Chloroquine? Ibuprofen? News and fake news regarding drugs used in COVID-19 currently make the media headlines. Healthcare professionals, patients and citizens need to get access to trusted information on drugs efficacy and safety, as well as up-to-date treatment guidelines and information on current clinical studies conducted worldwide.

Challenge

Provide a Swiss online updated platform (or app') with trusted information on drugs efficacy and safety in COVID-19, patients Q/A and evidence from current clinical studies for healthcare professionals.
Granular Maps predicting COVID-19 risk
Communities need an explainable, granular and dynamic view of risk to navigate these times of extreme uncertainty.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Most of the times, we are lagging behind regarding our response to the pandemic. Among others, because the outbreaks and hotspots are still too unpredictable.

Challenge

Communities need an explainable, granular and dynamic view of risk to navigate these
times of extreme uncertainty.

Potential solutions

The company SparkBeyond’s first solution dedicated to COVID-19 is a dynamic heat map predicting places where a COVID-19 carrier is likely to pass, at the resolution of individual buildings. They would be willing to bring this concept to Switzerland too.

Needed resources

Federal Administration, Politicians, "Doer" (the concept is there, we just need to make it happen), Allrounder
Dealing with fake information – HES-SO (HEG Arc und HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
How to track fake news on medical issues, their flows and their source? Block them, banning from social network fake news content and track their their authors and spreaders. Explain and debug fake news on social, web, tv, etc. Possibly legally prosecute the guilty.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

In the Coronavirus emergency, or in other similar pandemics, it's necessary to block fake news and their flows with are spreading as fast as the virus. Fake news provoke enormous damages in economy, social and individual security and health, etc. Even more in social media channels like Whatsapp and Telegram. Wishful thinking, beliefs and the human need to find someone to blame for any crisis are some of the various reasons many people
tend to believe fake news. The problem: in this situation, fake news can kill. (ex: warm tea kills the virus, god will protect us, it's just like the flu, X or Y medicine is the cure, etc.). Communications from public health experts, scientists and some governments are not trusted by a significant part of the population who choses to believe other sources of (dis)information. Trust is key in public policies depending on (long-term) behavioral responses from the public. How can we restore trust in facts? How can we destroy the credibility of fake news? - The people don't know well about the properties of virus (SARS-CoV-2) and how to behave, what to do. A lot of people afraid of this virus since they think that is 'something unknown' and some people are too optimistic since they don't understand how it is serious. There are numerous psychological studies which show that constant (bad) news exposure is harmful to mental health. The goal would be to lessen this burden by injecting uplifting messages via browser plugins or similar.

Challenge

How to track fake news on medical issues, their flows and their source? Block them, banning from social network fake news content and track their their authors and spreaders. Explain and debug fake news on social, web, tv, etc. Possibly legally prosecute the guilty. How can we make it easier to find "trusted COVID-19 media sources".

Potential solutions

Potential solutions: i)Use text-mining techniques coupled with graph-based visualization. Use qualitative analysis to provide guidelines. ii) algorithm which can detect commonly used terms and sources for the dissemination of fakes news. (a) Identifying the indicators for fake news articles / sources, (b)program detection software, (c) Partner with major media outlets and get them to "certify" their media coverage. iii) A multidisciplinary approach is needed to define what to communicate, how to communicate it and who should communicate it, before implementing. Involve Social Networks, politicians and stakeholders Develop App and website and involve citizens and students in this fight. An application to receive news directly on smartphone or by other ways (mail, specific paper journal), written by WHO or sanitary authorities or reference centers for COVID-19, with updates every week or more if necessary, on protection material (facial mask, hand disinfection, etc), if it is possible to make it by yourself and if not why, if there are news on how the infection disseminate, the new treatment options, the new tests options (and to whom it is usefull, explaining also the logistic questions because we are not in an ideal world where everything possible / useful can be done), etc. A chatbot? Fork an open source ad blocker or NewsFeedEradicator (Facebook)

Needed resources

Relations with Social Network Companies, politicians and other Stakeholders. Involve it App and web developer and designers, data scientists, doctors, epidemiologists and virologists, lawyers and other
specialists. Involve teachers, students and citizens for engagement and usability. Sandra discusses everyday with my patients. Psychologists, sociologists, communication and marketing specialists, web devs, graphic designers, out of the box thinkers, etc. - The HES-SO team is a team of researchers and developers. They need volunteers to help create datasets (fake and trustworthy news) and evaluate the application.

Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

HES-SO (HEG Arc and HEVS)
Publication of company data in extraordinary times
1) How often and for what purpose are previously unpublished data from companies used for government policy decision-making in the current situation? E.g. geo location data, Focus on Switzerland with comparison to other countries. 2) Which ethical questions have to be addressed?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Data from the private sector (e.g. geo location data of mobile phones) are used in times of an extraordinary situation to support the state in planning measures.

Challenge

1) How often and for what purpose are previously unpublished data from companies used for government policy decision-making in the current situation? E.g. geo location data, Focus on Switzerland with comparison to other countries.
1. Which ethical questions have to be addressed?
1. What responsibilities for companies are derived from this?
Potential solutions
1. Option a) Graphical representation / frequency chart and correlation matrix (e.g. by industry / type of company / size)
1. Option b) Graphical representation on usage of geo location data in Switzerland and compare with rest of world
1. 3) Criteria catalogue and examples
Needed resources

(public) secondary data, e.g. press releases from companies, general press releases

Journalist (investigative area),
data scientist
PowerPoint artists
COVID-19 and air pollution
Help researcher to study air pollution data and COVID-19 infection data at local & regional levels

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Recent reports have highlighted a potential relationship between air pollution, and propagation and severity of COVID-19 http://www.simaonlus.it/wpsima/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID19_Position-Paper_Relazione-circa-l%E2%80%99effetto-dell%E2%80%99inquinamento-da-particolato-atmosferico-e-la-diffusione-di-virus-nella-popolazione.pdf

Challenge

Help researcher to study air pollution data and COVID-19 infection data at local & regional levels

Potential solutions

Automated agents crawling through online air pollution database to collect current and past values. Script to match COVID-19 infection progression with pollution data.

Needed resources

Data scientists specialized in data extraction from web sources
Learning from Abroad
In comparison with other countries, how can one illustrate how effective the measures taken during the crisis are or how effective possible future measures will be after the current measures have been relaxed and derive recommendations for Switzerland?
Challenge-Beschrieb
Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Countries across the world are facing the same challenges and implementing diverse measures to improve the situation.

Challenge

In comparison with other countries, how can one illustrate how effective the measures taken during the crisis are or how effective possible future measures will be after the current measures have been relaxed and derive recommendations for Switzerland?

Potential solutions
1. Create an overview of which measures were taken in which countries, when they started, when they were suspended, etc. 2) Track other relevant metrics, like dissemination, business closures, mental health statistics, CO2 levels, etc. 3) Visualise your new understanding of the effectiveness and (unwanted) consequences of different measures.
Needed resources
- Datasets on measures and consequences from different countries
- Data scientists, journalists, designers, software engineers, researchers, etc!
- Volunteers from all over the world to submit and verify data.
Submitted by public bodies, universities and hospitals

A similar challenge has been submitted by the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to the current crisis, they will not be able to provide additional support to the teams throughout the Hackathon. Nevertheless, they are looking forward to seeing the results after the weekend!
Platform for sharing best practices
Organisations do not know where to find reliable information on how to mitigate the risks of extreme events. A platform where organisations could document best practices would be of great benefit to all involved.

Challenge-Beschrieb

Topic: Trustable Data vs Fake News

Context

Some organisations were prepared than others for the pandemic. They had a pandemic preparation plan and introduced measures to mitigate the risk of such an event. A platform for companies to share best practices would help others to prepare in the future.

Challenge

Organisations do not know where to find reliable information on how to mitigate the risks of extreme events. A platform where organisations could document best practices would be of great benefit to all involved.

Potential solutions

To create a collaborative tool to federate all the best practices used by organisations during the pandemic. These practices could then be leveraged by other other organisations in the future, thereby making them more anti-fragile.

Needed resources

This challenge requires data on risk typologies, root causes, responses & mitigating actions. The proposed platform would enable organisations (private and public) to crowd source this information.

Programm

Freitag, 3. April

09:00–11:00
Technischer Zugang und Onboarding
11:00–13:30
Teambildung und virtuelles Networking
14:00–14:30
Kick-off

Begrüssung und Einführung; um 14 Uhr müssen alle Teams bereit und online sein.
15:00–15:30
How to get started – Tech-Intro

Tiziano LuccarelliImpact Hub Switzerland
17:00
Mentorinnen und Mentoren auf Slack erreichbar
17:00–17:30
How to boost your creativity

Hulya KurtPräsidentin OWIT Lake GenevaKaren BhavnaniInnovation Manager, mci
18:15
Überraschung: Bundesrat Alain Berset

Bundesrat Alain Berset ermutigt die 4500 Hackerinnen und Hacker live.

Alain BersetBundesrat, Vorsteher EDINicola Forsterforaus / staatslabor, Moderation
19:00
Frist für die Wahl der Challenge
19:00–19:30
Inspirational Panel: Collaboration in Times of Crisis

Diana Engetschwiler Head of Digital Day, digitalswitzerlandPatrick GrissZühlke VenturesBjörn MüllerStride Learning AssociationRob HolubReto Gurtner
20:00–20:30
How to frame a problem

Peter HorvathBerater für digitale Strategie und Service Design, Genf
20:00–21:00
#funversusvirus: Konzert von Disco Pizco
21:00
#funversusvirus: Online-Disco mit Rosanna Grüter und Purple Drain, bis Mitternacht

Samstag, 4. April

08:00–08:40
Wake-up-Yoga mit Ruet
08:45–10:00
Müesli-Konzerte mit Artemi und Seth G
10:00
VersusVirus Update #1
10:30–11:00
Inspirational Panel: Kommunikation in der Krise

Vanina Farber Professorin, IMDArijana WalcottMitgründerin DART Labs VenturesJörg Mäder NationalratMarcel Gasser#VersusVirus
11:00–11:30
How to create a concept

Nadja MüllerMitgründerin co-co-co
12:00–13:00
Networking: Zoom-Chatroulette
13:00–13:30
How to create a prototype

Nora GailerMitgründerin co-co-co
13:45
Inspirational Surprise
14:00–14:30
#funversusvirus: Energizer mit Pat Burgener

Pat BurgenerSnowboarder und Musiker
15:00–15:30
How to pitch your idea

Jo Filshie BrowningGründerin, Filshie Browning Associates
16:30–17:00
Inspirational Panel: Mentoring Insights

Mentorinnen, Mentoren und Parlamentsmitglieder über das, was sie bei den Teams erlebt haben – und über die Covid-Hackathons in Deutschland, Estland und Polen.

Neil BeecroftHead of Sustainability Lausanne 2020; CEO PuraWorkaFritz SeidelDAY8 – Innovation AdvisoryAntje KrügerChange2BCsilla DaltonPsychologische BeraterinGerhard Andrey Nationalrat; Liip
17:00–17:30
How to visualise your idea

Noora BuserStartup & Innovation, Impact Hub Bern
18:00–18:30
How to create a simple video

Susanna PakMultimedia Communications Officer, International Trade Centre
19:45
VersusVirus Update #2
20:00–21:00
#funversusvirus: Konzert von Bisco
21:00
#funversusvirus: Covid Club mit DJ Matija, bis Mitternacht

Sonntag, 5. April

08:00–08:40
Wake-up-Yoga mit Ruet
08:45–10:00
Müesli-Konzerte mit Chasing Tales und Musketeer
10:00
VersusVirus Update #3
10:45–11:15
#kidsversusvirus
12:00–12:30
How to upload your solutions on the app

Karolos Potamianos #VersusVirus-TeamPavlina Pavlova#VersusVirus-Team
13:30–14:00
#kidsversusvirus
14:00–14:45
The Human Jukebox – Nachmittagskonzert für Familien
18:00
Abgabeschluss

Pitch-Video, Präsentation und Begleitmaterial auf Devpost.
18:00–18:30
End of Hack
18:30–19:30
#funversusvirus: Konzert von More Eats, Disco mit Mojo Tonic, Hip-Hop mit YPB
18:30–22:00
#funversusvirus: Zoom-Dancefloor

Montag, 6. April

19:00–20:30
Expert Panel und Closing Ceremony mit Bekanntgabe der Highlights

Die Jury hat aus rund 270 Einreichungen 42 Highlights ausgewählt, nach fünf Kriterien: Relevanz für die Schweiz, Bezug zur Challenge, langfristige Wirkung, Fortschritt in 48 Stunden, Mehrwert und Teamgeist.

Ursprüngliche Ankündigung lesen

Inspiriert vom #WirVsVirus Hackathon (15’000 Teilnehmende in Deutschland) und von HackCrisis (Polen) haben mehrere Schweizer Organisationen die Schweiz vom 3. bis 5. April zum schweizweiten virtuellen Hackathon #VersusVirus zusammengebracht, um neue Ideen und Lösungen im Umgang mit dem und gegen das Coronavirus zu entwickeln.

Während des 48-stündigen Hackathons bildeten 4’500 registrierte Hackerinnen und Hacker aus der ganzen Welt mit unterschiedlichstem Hintergrund 600 Teams und arbeiteten gemeinsam an Lösungen für die 190 ausgewählten Hackathon-Challenges in den Themenbereichen

Schutz von Risikogruppen
Eindämmung der Verbreitung
Daten gegen Fake News
Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen
Quarantäne & psychische Gesundheit
Spital & Pflege
Familie & Kinder
Bildung
Homeoffice & Teamarbeit
Nach der Krise
Unterstützung & Solidarität
Kunst & Kultur
Verbrechensbekämpfung

Unterstützt wurden sie von 500 Mentorinnen und Mentoren sowie von regelmässigen «How-to»-Sessions, die live über Zoom und YouTube gestreamt wurden.

Nach dem Einsendeschluss für die Projekte am Sonntag, 5. April, um 18 Uhr wurden ~270 Ergebnisse eingereicht. Eine Jury bewertete die eingereichten Lösungen nach fünf Kriterien: 1. Relevanz für das Schweizer Ökosystem, 2. Relevanz der Lösung für die jeweilige Challenge, 3. Potenzial für eine langfristige Wirkung, 4. Fortschritt in den letzten 48 Stunden, 5. Mehrwert und Teamgeist.

Neben dem eigentlichen Hackathon sorgte ein breites Angebot an inspirierenden Podiumsdiskussionen, Livekonzerten und Yoga-Sessions – alle gestreamt auf Youtube – dafür, dass die Teilnehmenden neue Energie und Inspiration tanken konnten. Einer der Höhepunkte von #VersusVirus war ein Live-Interview mit Bundesrat Alain Berset, der die Bedeutung von Innovation und Zusammenarbeit in der aktuellen Zeit hervorhob und die Teilnehmenden in ihren Hackathon-Aktivitäten bestärkte.

Der Hackathon stand unter dem Patronat des Eidgenössischen Departements des Innern (EDI) und des Eidgenössischen Departements für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung (WBF). Zu den Organisatoren von #VersusVirus gehören Opendata.ch, Impact Hub Switzerland, Panter, Powercoders, Gebert Rüf Stiftung, digitalswitzerland, Staatslabor, GEN Switzerland, Swisscom, ETH Entrepreneur Club, foraus und viele weitere.

Organisationsteam

André GolliezZetamind; Opendata.ch
Carlotta ZarattiniImpact Hub Switzerland
Christoph BirkholzImpact Hub Switzerland
Daniel Dobos gluoNNet
Daniela Christendigitalswitzerland
Diana Engetschwiler digitalswitzerland
Fabio Balli Breathing Games Association
Georgios KontoleonImpact Hub Switzerland
Janine FuchsGRAFIK2
Karolos Potamianos gluoNNet / THE Port
Katka LetzingKickstart Innovation
Laura OlgiatiImpact Hub Switzerland
Marcel GasserGEN Switzerland
Nicola Forsterforaus / staatslabor
Nikki BöhlerOpendata.ch
Oleg Lavrovsky Opendata.ch
Pavlina PavlovaImpact Hub Switzerland
Tiziano LuccarelliImpact Hub Switzerland

VersusVirus Hackathon