InnovatioCuris Foundation of Healthcare & Excellence (ICFHE), under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development Innovation Cell, All India Council for Technical Education and FORGE Accelerator, hosted a national level 48 hour virtual/online ideation hackathon to discover ideas from thousands of innovators, researchers, scientists, and educators from across India joined hands as a true community during these uncertain and challenging times to discover solutions that can help the nation rise as one in the fight against COVID-19.

Various Indian state governments and like minded people from across the globe reached out to us to join hands in #indiahackscorona .

Mentors are the soul of any such program. People genuinely wanted to help, and if you can map their expertise efficiently they can be utilised better by the participating teams. Also, for mentors to stay online without being utilised is not good.

Many of the teams we observed wanted to stay with the same mentors as they moved along with the various phases. Most of the mentors were available throughout nights to help the teams.

Cyber is a great equalizer, for our startup track we had jury members from 4 different time zones. India, Singapore, Netherlands and USA (East Coast). You can make your event international without any extra effort.

Especially COVID-19 is a global crisis, it is an opportunity to build bridges for innovative solutions by bringing international perspective to your work. Maybe, the startup / team you helped through the event might get global assignments.

In the world full of fake news. How do you do outreach for a cause? As you need to recruit more supporters and make the outcomes more visible. Putting together the community content into a meaningful shape (like short videos) is a method that can take you a long way.

The following is a selfie collage post of the filtered participants who burnt the midnight oil to try and find solutions to fight COVID-19

Also, see examples of two videos below created by our team.

A council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development

Ministry of Human Resource Development Innovation cell setup by the Government of India.

To promote e-Governance for empowering citizens, promoting the inclusive and sustainable growth of the Electronics, IT and ITeS industries, enhancing India’s role in Internet Governance, enhancing efficiency through digital services.

The Department of Science and Technology is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India.

Forge empowers Government, Industry, and Academia to exploit strategic opportunities through Innovation powered by Digital, AI, and Robotics.

MeitY Startup Hub acts as a national coordination, facilitation and monitoring centre that integrates all the incubation centres, start-ups and innovation related activities of MeitY.

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments.

National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations is an umbrella programme conceived and developed by the Innovation & Entrepreneurship division, DST, Government of India, for nurturing ideas and innovations into successful startups.

Guaana is a technology platform built to engage the brightest minds by running online hackathons & innovation challenges.

The UN Technology Innovation Labs (UNTIL) are designed to move humanity forward, faster by focusing on the use of innovative technology to solve some of humanity’s most pressing needs.

Gujarat Student Startup and Innovation Hub

A global entrepreneurship platform supporting impact-driven startups and intrapreneurs from idea to scale-up.

An initiative conceived to unlock the national treasure created by the top scientific research institutions in Telangana State.

An Innovation Continuum which spreads incubation, acceleration, seed & growth funding, and research. A part of IIM Ahmedabad.

A custom automation AI organisation to gather, read and understand text from anywhere.

TiE Chennai seeks to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship both within the city as well as the larger state of Tamil Nadu.

Aims at supporting entrepreneurs in Coimbatore region to become global leaders and nurturing an innovative entrepreneurial eco-system in the region.

A common platform facilitating communication amongst the accredited HCOs, share best practices, and provide benchmarking, while promoting and continuously improving the quality and safety of healthcare services provided by the HCOs across India, in collaboration with all stakeholders.

A Think Tank with the ideology of Ventures through Experiments

Maker of tools for Information and Intelligence.