“cohack” hackathon is organized by Executive Yuan and American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), implemented by Board of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan, co-organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Welfare, National Development Council, and National Center for High-performance Computing, and executed by Institute for Informational Industry. The “cohack” hackathon themes include six different categories: Managing community resources, Making smooth transition to the new world after the pandemic, Protecting the vulnerable groups, Predicting future pandemic outbreaks by the lessons this time, Supporting front-line staff and essential workers, and Establishing proper data-driven risk communication. In the short 8-day registration period, 53 teams of 215 people from Taiwan, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, and Japan submitted their proposals. These experts from different fields around the world joined “cohack” and came up with brilliant solutions.

1. Autonomy

Team “Autonomy” designed the neighborhood public health forecasting tool that works by merging local, institutional, and governmental data with information provided by individuals to create graphical forecasts of local health in a privacy-respecting manner. By enabling mass participation in public health, it can be an early warning system that helps citizens to recognize potential risks at specific locales; it can be a danger assessor that gives government leaders data-driven advice on public health decisions; and it can be an analytic research tool that collects and analyzes local data from around the world.

2. Gemini Data

Team “Gemini Data” designed the interactive data visualization tool, Gemini Explore, can be used to process epidemic information collected by the public health department and generate interactive graph data to help the public health department and epidemic investigation staff effectively control the relationship between the patients and their surroundings. With Gemini Explore, you can quickly communicate with the local health centers, police stations, social workers, and neighborhood units to formulate action strategies and reduce infection effectively.

3. LogBoard Front-line support

Team “LogBoard Front-line support” proposed the system that records the health information of patients before they arrive at hospitals, focuses on solving the dilemma that most patients cannot clearly remember or describe their symptoms. By using the one-time link and the dashboard, you can visualize patients’ life history to improve the efficiency and accuracy of their diagnosis and treatment.

4. Interdisciplinary laboratory

Team “Interdisciplinary laboratory” designed the integrated platform of rescue package. The applicants can search application process, competent authority, and contact person of rescue package from our platform. Meanwhile, we except to produce the digital guidance of social welfares as an advanced service. Citizens affected by the epidemic can check the relief plan, medical service, temporary shelter etc., in our digital guidance.

5. Digital Epidemic Prevention System (TeamsEP), WiAdvance

Team “WiAdvance” designed the system aims to help the frontline medical workers stay on top of the condition of the quarantined people, including body temperature, physiological symptoms, and immediate alerts of the quarantined people violate any rules. In order to follow The Personal Data Protection Act and keep the accuracy of tracing system ,we detect the quarantined people whether there is any irregularity and record the movement track of indoor and outdoor via mobile Wi-Fi signals.

Each team member will receive a “cohack” limited edition TATUNG steam rice cooker, which is awarded by the Taiwanese and U.S. governments jointly and sponsored by Tatung Company. Furthermore, National Center for High-Performance Computing will also present the winning teams with domestic high-quality rice, in order to encourage participants to develop innovative solutions. Also, these digital anti-epidemic solutions will be extensively reported by the multiple ways. In the future, Taiwan will keep sharing our achievements in the field of anti-epidemic technology, and let the global village know the saying, “Stay together, cohack can help!”.

The cohack themes include six different categories:

Themes	Details	Project Title
(I) Managing community resources	Established a managing platform to assist the government or related institutions in coordinating medical resources （medical equipment, beds in the community hospitals, medical staff deployment, social worker, personal protective equipment, quarantine zone, etc.） in order to avoid shortage of resources.	1. A negative pressure isolation bed managing system or a real-time ICU bed managing system complies with international data exchange standards. 2. A matching platform that matches available medical supplies with local needs. 3. A precise donation information platform that presents the urgent needs of medical resources. 4. An integrated platform of local PPE and related materials.
(II) Making smooth transition to the new world after the pandemic	As everybody around the world is facing the impact of COVID-19 spread, we can use scientific data to suggest transitional measures that balance the economy with the protection of public health, in order to help policy makers making more informed decisions. Especially when it comes to lift coronavirus restrictions for the public, such as back-to-school day, proper social distances, as well as reopen public facilities and business.	1. A supply and demand platform of community epidemic prevention and community recovery services to integrate dispersed resources and human resources.
(III) Protecting the vulnerable groups	Consider how to protect and assist specific vulnerable groups that affected by the epidemic. Such as the elderly, victims of domestic violence and children who do not have access to online education due to digital divide.	1. People who live at home alone, trapped at home, or isolated seniors can make demands (via internet or non-internet channel) on a platform to get assistance or supplies from volunteers. 2. A Platform for victims of domestic violence should be developed during the epidemic. Victims can get help from epidemic prevention net and social safety net. 3. Building professional knowledge sharing platforms or digital tools to help disadvantaged companies transform to e-commerce. 4. An open source platform is needed to share experiences of digital education, to make sure disadvantaged school children will receive good education. 5. Support disadvantaged school children to receive resources of digital education (including hardware, software, safe learning space, mentors, etc.).
(IV) Predicting future pandemic outbreaks by the lessons this time	Creating a disease forecasting system by using big data to better track the speed and scale of pandemic's spread （prediction system for disease outbreaks, assessment for the spread of infections, etc.）, in order to support decision making for future outbreaks.	1. Resources, such as community care workers and beds of nursing homes, should be systematically arranged via a platform to cope with unexpected situations.
(V) Supporting front-line staff and essential workers	Fully support frontline medical staff and epidemic prevention workers （doctors, nurses, pharmacists, public servants, delivery drivers, grocery clerks, etc.） and their families to meet the needs of their daily life during the outbreak.	1. An epidemic prevention telecommuting system (including Self-Management of Health, medical consultation, and Telemedicine) complies with information security and personal information protection. 2. Health information reporting system (patients can report their basic information and health conditions via the system before they come to the hospitals) to improve medical treatment efficiency and accuracy. 3. A database of regional infection control information, and an efficient communication platform for health professionals.
(VI) Establishing proper data-driven risk communication	Using the results of data analysis to provide the correct concept of epidemic prevention to the community is important, especially with risk assessments based on the available scientific evidence. It will help to ease the anxiety and panic of the general public.	1. To establish a global database, including local infection control policies, economic data (regional time series data), suggestions of public health, and scientific knowledge.

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