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Kenya’s Mbali Health named the regional winner of IBM’s 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge

Milcah Lukhanyu by Milcah Lukhanyu
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Kenya’s Mbali Health, an application that connects patients to care providers in a socially distanced way has been named by IBM and David Clark Cause as the Middle East and Africa regional winner of the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge.

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. 

The easy to use application is effortlessly accessible to a large population of Kenyans allowing for them to interact and receive diagnosis from physicians from the comfort of their homes.

As the winner for the Middle East and Africa region, Mbali Health joins Call for Code’s ecosystem, which unites the world’s millions of developers and data scientists to unleash the power of cloud, AI, blockchain, and IoT technologies to solve pressing global problems with sustainable and scalable open source-powered technologies

Mbali Health will be awarded a total of $5000 which will go towards future development and deployment of the application. The team aims to include the transmission of voice and images. They will also receive support from IBM’s technical experts.

Speaking on behalf of Mbali Health, Sam Wilks said “We are honoured to have been part of the Call for Code challenge. During this pandemic we saw the struggle that the patients and clinics were facing and sought to develop a solution. To emerge as the winners in this region is not only humbling, but also pushes us to continue creating innovative solutions for the health sector; an area we are very passionate about.”

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The 2020 Call for Code challenge brought together developers, start-ups, and enterprise developers to create solutions to address the world’s current COVID-19 pandemic in addition to climate change; two pressing issues that have the power to compromise our health, our planet, and our survival. 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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Now in its third year, the Call for Code global competition has generated more than fifteen thousand solutions built using a combination of open source-powered products and technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, IBM Blockchain, data from The Weather Company, and APIs from ecosystem partners like HERE Technologies and IntelePeer.

Call for Code movement has grown to more than 400,000 developers and problem solvers across 179 nations, reflecting the reality that challenges like climate change and COVID-19 demand solutions that work on the local level, but also have the ability to scale and help any community, anywhere.

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