In April 2020, Dubai Future Foundation launched the One Million Arab Coders COVID-19 Hackathon to engage Arab coders from around the world to develop innovative solutions to challenges specially in the areas of health and education, that have emerged due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The hackathon provides participants with an opportunity to highlight their skills, ideas and knowledge in employing the programming languages to find solutions for challenges case by COVID-19. Arab coders from all around the world can participate and present their innovative solutions through the OMAC COVID-19 Hackathon.

Once the phase of preparing for the project concludes, the jury will select 15 best teams based on prototype work, economic feasibility, user experience and cost of implementation. These teams will present their projects and solutions to a committee from Dubai Future Foundation which will select 5 projects worth USD 50,000.

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