The Development NGO (DNGO) Anesvad is organizing the first edition of Apps4Health, a social hackathon that will gather 60 mHealth applications developers on September 28th.
The objective of Apps4Health is to design five applications focused on mHealth issues with open source coding so that they can be implemented and reused.
The areas selected by the DNGO are: Infant Survival and Safe Motherhood in Ghana; the Elimination of Leprosy in India; Combatting Dengue Fever in Peru; and the Fight Against People Trafficking in Thailand.
There is also a fifth, free category that will place an emphasis on solving issues related to the Right to Healthcare.
Each subject will feature a maximum of three teams made up of between two and four people. The volunteer developers will work for twelve hours using minimal resources to create the mobile applications.
Alfonso Alzugaray, the social marketing executive at Anesvad explained: In the case of Peru we have a clear idea, we want the app to be focused on geo-location issues. But in the others the field is very open.
Source: RTVE
