The team from Vanguard, has won #HackAgainstEbola, organised by the Global Editors Network, Pan-Atlantic University and
OSIWA (Open Society Initiative for West Africa) in partnership with ICFJ (International
Center for Journalists) and sponsored by Google.
Each team was composed of a journalist,
a designer and a developer, and they had two days to build a prototype on a
specific theme:
‘How to better cover and prevent Ebola’. It is part of a global programme
called Editors Lab;
a series of international hackdays.
The
competition was won by the team from Vanguard, with a prototype called Ebola Go, information apps which gives
the users all relevant information need on Ebola. Such information as news, write
ups, photos, videos, data among others, which is web, mobile and SMS based.
There is also a short code for Phone users where there is no internet.
It also
connects the users to doctors and doctors to users as well as hospitals. The
apps 'draws information from all relevant site that have things to do with
Ebola and other health issues.’
As
one of the jury Evangeline de Bourgeoning explains ‘It is an extremely
simple and efficient
system
: without any internet connection and in just a few clicks the users have
access to the
most
important info about Ebola. This quick and cheap platform has the potential to
become a
broadly
used tool in West-African countries.’
The
2nd prize was given to Voice of Nigeria, with Hack Against Ebola and the 3rd
prize to Unilag with Ebola Shield.
The
audience choice went to Ebola Yarn, by TVC. The
other teams participating were: The Nation Newspaper, News Agency of Nigeria,
Channels Television,
Yes International! Magazine, TELL Magazine, DigitalSENSE BusinessNews, Nigerian
NewsDirect.
You
can see all the projects on the GEN Community. Pictures of the event are
available on our
Flickr
account.
The
winning team will be invited to participate in the Editors Lab Final, held in
Barcelona during
the
GEN Summit 2015, next June. They will compete against the other winners from
the Editors
Lab.
The
Jury was composed of Babatunde Akpeji, Knight
International Journalism Fellow, ICFJ; Mikang Longjan, Program
Coordinator, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); and Evangéline de Bourgoing,
Programme Manager, Global Editors Network.
The next #HackAgainstEbola will be held in Dakar, mid-January.
+Remmy Nweke #HackAgainstEbola +VanguardNews
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