HBN Covid-19 Challenge

Call to all Indian and other talent to come together for open source solutions to Covid-19 challenges

• Competition to create or identify the materials to fight the COVID situation
• most affordable and efficient design of Domestic Oxygen Concentrator
• Low cost masks with pore size lower than Covid Virus diameter
• Low cost hand sanitizer
• Software and gadgets along with tablet / smartphone to track those with fever in a crowded place

Organized by Overseas Volunteers for Better India (OVBI) & Honey Bee Network (HBN)

• Anybody can submit entries.
• Criteria for entries: 
• Functional design 
• Bill of Materials 
• With hardware vendor list (if possible)

Quality parameters will be specified along with compliance with regulatory norms.

• Selection Criteria and Prize Money: 
• Best Functional Design: 5000 USD: 
• A letter of appreciation to three more designs 
• Bill of Materials 
• A letter of appreciation to three more designs)

All the designs will be open for anybody to use, modify & implement. Last date of submission June 13, 2021

Anybody can submit any number of designs, to be eligible for award, the design should have been tested through a functional prototype; video, bill of materials & vendors for different standard and fabricated components may be listed if possible. All designs will be shared in open so if somebody has a patent, then it will have to be licensed to gian.org, a HBN institution for open dissemination.