The German tech scene has had a sleepless weekend. 43,000 participants took part in the federal government’s #WIRVSVIRUS hackathon and worked for 48 hours to develop technical solutions to the challenges of the corona crisis.
Hans Elstner, CEO of Jena-based rooom
AG, and three of his employees were also there. The result: the virus tracking app PANDOA.
The open-source app can also be supplemented with information from other systems, such as self-diagnosis tools or
models for calculating the probability of the virus spreading.
In order for the app to be available to all German citizens ig database on their Android and iOS devices as quickly as
possible, the YouTube video PANDOA Virus Tracker – #WirVsVirusHack must now receive enough likes. Voting is open
until Thursday, March 26, 2020.
An opportunity for containment
The first days of the Corona crisis in Germany are over and the success of your business unprofessional social life has
changed noticeably. At the beginning of last weekend, a team of 40 enthusiasts, including Hans Elstner, asked
themselves how citizens can move as freely as possible despite all the restrictions and at the same time avoid risky
contacts. Just 48 hours later, the solution to this answer was PANDOA.
“I believe this has a chance of helping to contain the virus significantly,” concludes Hans Elstner. “We hope that as
many citizens as possible will like our YouTube presentation and vote for our app. This way it will be available to the
public quickly.”
What does the app do?
PANDOA enables every user to find out their own risk of estonia leads infection and at the same time inform the health system as quickly as possible about new sources of infection. To do this, the app records where the user moves locally on the respective smartphone . Only when a person marks that they have tested positive will the app ask them to share this information anonymously.
The app then compares the historical routes of all users from the last 7 to 10 days with the locations of infected people and can thus calculate the risk of infection. It also takes into account how long the contact lasted, i.e. whether it was a long conversation or just the same street was used.
The open-source app can also be supplemented with information from other systems, such as self-diagnosis tools or models for calculating the probability of the virus spreading.
In order for the app to be available to all German citizens on their Android and iOS devices as quickly as possible, the YouTube video PANDOA Virus Tracker – #WirVsVirusHack must now receive enough likes. Voting is open until Thursday, March 26, 2020.