Young Kerala techie wins laurels for open-source assistance in COVID-19 management
The Hindu
Tool developed by Mr. Thomas has won him global recognition in the form of an open-source grant from GitHub
Bodhish Thomas, a 25-year-old techie from Pandalam, has long championed the importance of open-source technology as a force for good in the uncertain times.
In 2018, when the State was reeling under one of the worst floods in its history, he teamed up with a few of his friends and came up with afterflood.in, a crowd sourced data hub for post-flood related content focusing on health and well-being. The website, which immediately found a place in keralarescue.in run by the government of Kerala, has assisted people not just in Kerala, but in Tamil Nadu too when the cyclonic storm of Gaja made its landfall, and in Karnataka as well during the Kodagu floods last year.
A couple of years later, when the world confronted one of its toughest problems in the form of COVID-19, this open-source technology once again propelled more contributions from the youngster .
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