Today ConsenSys Health announced the Stop COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon to start April 13 and run through to May 11. Sponsors of the initiative include Gitcoin, Hyperledger, ConsenSys, One Million Developers and OpenMinded. The first virtual panels by mentors will be available today.
The project brings together three open source communities from Ethereum, Hyperledger and OpenMinded.
“Working together for the first time with a very specific toolset, this interdisciplinary group will rapidly create highly-relevant solutions with the potential to have both immediate- and long-term positive impact,” said Heather Leigh Flannery, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys Health. “The core of our effort is to leverage converging innovations like blockchain, tokenization, zero-knowledge cryptography, and federated machine learning to advance immediate and long-term public health goals while preserving individual privacy.”
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