Mbali Health emerge regional winners in the Call for Code Global Challenge
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Open source software solution, Mbali Health, was selected as regional winners for innovation to help Kenyans in low income areas gain remote access to medical care during the pandemic.
IBM and David Clark Cause today announced the Middle East and Africa regional winner of the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. The challenge brought together developers, start-ups, and enterprise developers to create solutions to address the world’s current COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. In addition to the winning team, the Call for Code Challenge had regional finalists from other African countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria tackling education, health, and climate change.
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IBM and David Clark Cause today announced the Middle East and Africa regional winner of the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge.
This year’s regional winning solution is from a team of developers out of Nairobi, Kenya, who designed the Mbali Health application that connects patients to care providers in a socially distanced way.
With the COVID-19 pandemic actively spreading among citizens and with countries facing increased lockdown procedures, it was increasingly difficult for patients to gain access to medical care in a safe and socially distanced manner. Through the Call for Code Challenge, the developers of Mbali Health created a solution for Kenyans powered and secured by IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Virtual Servers and Hyper Protect DBaas with MongoDB, a simple chat interface that gives the patients easy access to healthcare providers through WhatsApp. With over 90% mobile penetration, the easy to use application is effortlessly accessible to a large