Help the COVID-19 situation in your community

Inspiration

The Canadian government, and almost every country and corporation in the world, encourages us to pull through this pandemic together but they don't give any real way how. In addition, the government only catches on to cases after they check-in into a hospital; meaning it is usually too late and many more are infected.

What it does

This application encourages people to help each other, and try to contain the spread of COVID-19

How I built it

I built an example application with Tkinter in Python.

Challenges I ran into

The main challenge I ran into was what exactly what to put that people can actually use to help each other.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am pretty proud of the ideas I had as I think it is really creative and would really make a difference in how COVID-19 spreads.

What I learned

I learned that now in SK, many teens and people my age are starting to brush off the risk of COVID-19 and going about almost as if nothing was wrong.

What's next for Help the COVID-19 situation in your community

What probably is next is a sort of system that strengthens the protection for people against COVID-19.

Submission Form

My Idea:

My hack is a sort of application that aims at helping the community as a whole get over COVID-19 through self vigilance and community watch. There are 4 parts too this application. Each one tied with the other in helping us get through these hard times The themes of this hack are Social Good and COVID-19. When people feel the need to report any sort of sighting or warnings, they can press a button and fill a form with as many details as possible. This is the first tab. Once the form has been submitted, 2 tabs in the application are updated. In one is a map where circles are placed around the place where the potential hazards have been. the second is a sort of billboard where warnings and suspected cases are reported.

Potential Impact:

While this application isn't a magical bullet it will definitely have a positive impact by bringing the community together and strengthen the ties and try to limit the spread of COVID-19

Implementation:

This hack will simply be implementated like any other application, it will be available on most application stores. To make the hack more relevent, the government of the user's city/province/state/country should have a presence on the application to provide faster and more accurate.

The 4 parts of my hack:

There is a second tab where official and confirmed cases are recorded. This tab tries to display as much pertinant information as possible so people who may have been in close proximity know that they are at risk and should take immediate action.

On the third tab the user will have access to a map. When on the Map tab, you can have the option to view the history of that specific place, where you will have access to old confirmed and suspected cases so the consumer can make a decision if the area is unsafe.

The application will also generate a risk rating based on recent confirmed/suspected cases along with its history of cases. Other factors are distance to other high risk area's, average risk of area and type of place and what kind of service they offer

On ther billboard tab, users can see a list of suspected case reportings, confirmed cases and important information concerning the case. Here the user can toggle certain settings that only show cases in frequently visited places, nearby nieghborhoods, only confirmed and enable pop-up ads.

The fourth and final tab is a sort of global chatroom as mentioned before, here people can talk with others about almost anything. The point of this chatroom along with its accompanying video and voice chat is to try and relieve a bit of cabin fever for some and voice their concerns during these times and support eachother.

Built With

• python