The third edition of Coopathon – the Cooperative Hackathon started on 11th December (Friday), on a virtual platform, Airmeet will be live until 14th December (Monday). It aims to identify and grapple with problems and challenges in the social and service sectors.
This is the first time a cooperative hackathon is being organized as a fully online event and that too for an international audience. The Coopathon 3.0 also brings a diverse pool of partners and mentors to provide pre, during, and post-event support, mentorship, and industry-connect for the participants to develop successful solutions, claims a press release sent by the organizers.
Balu Iyer, Regional Director, ICA-AP, inaugurated the event with his welcome address. He highlighted the key components that the Coopathon 3.0 focuses on – the youth, technology, and the transition from “I” to “We”.
Balu talked about the challenges that we are facing today due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and how, through Coopathon 3.0 we are trying to address them.
Sundeep Kumar Nayak, Managing Director, NCDC was the keynote speaker. NCDC is championing start-up
The Coopathon 3.0 is being organized with the support of nine partner organisations from six countries, namely IFFCO, ANGKASA, ICCI, IKOPIN, Incubator.coop, KODI, Mondragon Team Academy, Korea, and Travelling University. The event also features 13 mentors from nine countries (Australia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Spain, and the USA) bringing onboard experiences from diverse fields to add value to the prototype-building process. Tarun Bhargava is one of the Judges for the COOPATHON 3.0.