Cyber Peace Foundation in collaboration with Global youth voice, Just Intern, World Foundation for Education and Peace organized Hackathon De Corps (HDC), — a two day event at Software Technology Park in Ranchi to impart technical education amongst common public. The event was held on the June 16 and 17.
A series of workshop and talks were organized in this two day event where participants were given hands-on technological training. The trained individuals developed a working prototype of their solution regarding various society based issues within 48 hours. Some interesting solutions that were developed during this event were Social Media Security (solution to fake news and emergency response mechanism to rumors being spread online and WhatsApp groups), App to solve human trafficking and exploitation of tribal and female workers from Jharkhand, Creating awareness on Cyber Hygiene, E-lodging of complains about crime and its authentication.
Apart from providing platform to common public, HDC is also helping local entrepreneurs to find the right kind of team members with required skill sets. “Such hands on approach is the best approach for people to convert their business ideas into tangible prototype of their products” Sarabpreet Singh , founder of www.JustIntern.com.
During the event, Vineet Kumar, Founder, Cyber Peace Foundation talked about cybercrimes and security and how the modern technology is both a threat and an opportunity whereas Ms Malavika Sharma founder of Avika Online Social Enterpreneur spoke about gender issues in society and asked the young participants to solve them using technology. The two workshops which were organized in HDC included Abhishek Sagar’s workshop on “Best practices in product designing” and Sarabpreet Singh’s workshop on “Building Cross Platform Apps from Scratch”.