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CoWIN Helper

Share,help and care. Our web app aims to help people ask for help and get information about covid resources in a systematic manner and to increase accessibility of information and resources available.

Created on 26th June 2021

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CoWIN Helper

Share,help and care. Our web app aims to help people ask for help and get information about covid resources in a systematic manner and to increase accessibility of information and resources available.

The problem CoWIN Helper solves

Since the past two years, the world has been facing the global pandemic Covid-19. In India, when the situation was just beginning to stabilize we were hit harder with the 2nd wave. This time the distress was intensified with serious lack of oxygen, plazma, hospital beds, food, vaccination.
This made us realise the importance of a strong network which can be used to help each other out. People were spreading information regarding availablity of Oxygen cylinders, beds, medicines etc through word of mouth, various social media platforms and what not. But all this information was shared in a very haphazardly manner failing to reach many and sometimes reaching too late and the end result being people suffering, so we felt that need for a platform specifically dedicated to cater to such situations.
On our website, people can create pages regarding the resources available for COVID to help people around them and share the links to these pages, rather than relying on word of mouth or information on social media platforms, repeatedly forwarding the same messages or posting them with a time/word limit and with information unclear, improper and unreliable. The information is is played on our website in a systematic manner & its reliability is also checked. To deal with reliability of the information, we have a reliability factor displayed on the page which takes votes from its readers about its reliability and an indicator that clearly shows how old or new the information is. Our platform is for users to share whatever they find useful about the current COVID pandemic in a proper, organised and systematic manner & asking for help, for example in the form of donations where they provide information to the readers about how & where to donate. We also encourage our user to share their experiences, home remedies & other things that help them get through these tough times.
The goal of this website to become an ultimate source of all COVID aid & to help people help eachother.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest issue with a website where users are the ones giving out the information, is the relaibility of the information. The way we have deicided to solve it as of now, is to give relaibility points to sources of information by taking upvotes from the readers who believe and find the information to be relaible, and also we have to ensure that no user has to face issue because some information is outdated, so we also clearly mention and highlight when the information was last updated.

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