At present, the focus is on solutions towards the health system and communities, and aim to foster social entrepreneurship in healthcare. As the first step, we invite innovative proposals on the following range of issues related to the Coronavirus pandemic in India:

1 - Public Health Measures and Risk Mitigation related to COVID-19 (State/ district level implementation)

• Active, exhaustive case detection and immediate testing and isolation.

• Intense contact tracing and rigorous quarantine of close contacts

2 - Health System Preparedness & Response to COVID-19

• Ensuring safety & protection of healthcare providers & people providing essential services, from COVID-19 infection (e.g. Personal Protective Equipment(PPE), triage systems, patient flow, etc.)

• Preparedness of hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients - adequate healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, paramedics etc), isolation beds, ICU beds, essential ICU medicines & equipment e.g. oxygen concentrators, laryngoscopes, ventilators, etc.

• Supply chain innovations to improve the delivery of vaccine, medicines, PPE, diagnostics, medical equipment, etc

3 - Data Modeling & Analytics

• Modeling estimates of COVID-19 disease burden, progression & impact of various interventions (e.g. lockdown, social distancing, etc).

• Data analytics & forecasting tools for planning.

4 - Mental Health & Social Behavior Communication and Change

• Improve well being by developing solutions to meet mental, emotional, and social health needs in the face of #covid19 (against those quarantined, positive cases, healthcare workers and others).

• Application of art therapy, music therapy, mindfulness etc to reduce stress & anxiety

• Behavior change and increasing compliance to social distancing

• Innovative approaches to reduce stigma & discrimination in the face of #covid19 (against those quarantined, positive cases, healthcare workers and others).

• Communication platforms, advocacy and information dissemination

• Ideas to maintain privacy & confidentiality of patients & contacts while ensuring adequate public health measures.

• Interactive and innovative approaches to disseminate information on vaccination; tackling fake news, misinformation and stigma around the same

5 - Community engagement

• Systems for #Covid19 screening in community settings e.g. grocery stores, etc; social/physical distancing in community settings.

• Engaging communities to develop local/ indigenous solutions to support the COVID-19 response e.g. cloth masks, soap & water/ sanitizers for hand hygiene, etc. /p>

6 - Innovative Health Technologies

• Development of Innovative Technologies like digital health platforms, rapid point of care diagnostics, geographical information systems, population-level data tools etc. to support the COVID-19 response.

7 - Vulnerable populations

• Solutions for #covid19 efforts in slums, relief camps, prisons, elderly care or other challenging settings.

• Solutions to support unintended consequences of #covid19 response e.g. increase in domestic violence, alcohol withdrawal etc.

8 - Maintaining delivery of ongoing health services/ programs

• Maintaining services for other communicable (e.g. TB, HIV etc) and non-communicable diseases (cancer, diabetes etc), immunisation, maternal & child health and ongoing health programs.

• Ensuring safety of health workers & communities delivering ongoing health programs.

9 - Diversity in leadership

• Efforts to engage less represented groups in healthcare & public health decision-making & planning (medical students, nursing staff, community members and others).

• Efforts to engage community members in developing solutions & implementing COVID-19 response.

10 - Others - Any innovative proposal that can aid in the #COVID19 response but does not clearly meet any of the above categories, can be submitted in this category.

We recommend submissions of all types including those at an early stage, service innovations and platform or product innovations. However, solutions that have a readiness for rapid implementation and scale are the need of the hour.

Anyone team - for profit, non-profit, startup, social entrepreneur, academicians, group of experts - is eligible provided the team has the ability to work in India towards implementation of the solution that is submitted. Be mindful of the 7R’s of innovative idea

• Relevance – is the idea going to attend to the core needs/aspirations of the key stakeholders?
• Revolutionary – is the idea a game-changer to brave this time of crisis?
• Rapid – can it be done rapidly or fast?
• Rough – can it be done on a small scale, locally, low budget?
• Right – is the idea focusing on the right issues that underpin the challenge?
• Relationally effective – can it make optimum use of resources so that 2+2=5?
• Replicable – if it works, does the idea have the potential to scale up?

Starting April 26, the PI India Action group will discuss on the selected solutions that can be implemented in the present situation. The teams whose solutions are recommended by participants of the action group will be connected with the Member of Parliament and/or the investment firm who expresses interest in taking up the solution. Only a team whose solution is taken up for discussion at the Action Group will hear from us. The timeline of internal review of any submission will depend on the number of proposals received in a week but will not exceed more than four weeks.

Form- Part III- Details about the team (If applicable)

This field must be filled if you have more members other than you in the team. You can mention up to 3 additional members by simply mentioning their LinkedIn profile. (if you are a single person team, keep this page blank and proceed to submit)

By submitting the form we assume you are abiding by the terms and conditions (read here)

Once you submit your solution, our team will:

• Screen:

  Your solution will be reviewed by PIIndia.org partners along with other submissions and a short-list of innovations will be selected for discussion in an upcoming Action Group meeting. You will hear from us if your solution has been selected!

• Present:

  Members of the Action Group will discuss ten proposals every week. Proposals that are recommended by the Action Group will be enabled to the next stage of implementation support by a direct connect with the Member of Parliament who expresses interest in the solution.

• Implement:

  Any team that reaches the implementation stage will be connected to work directly with the office of the Member of Parliament for support towards implementation. The team may also get support from the investment partners who are part of the Action Group on a case to case basis.

PIIndia.org respects every solution and team that joins this collective mission and submits a solution on the website.

Submission of solution to PIIndia.org is entirely free of charge.

PIIndia.org does not seek to take any stake in any team or company submitting a solution and/or progressing through the process.

Submitting a solution on the website is NOT a promise of support from PIIndia.org

PIIndia.org is a platform with wide-set of stakeholders and public visibility. Where it matters, the innovator must take due measures to communicate in a way that the intellectual property of the solution remains duly secured.

Any team or organization submitting a solution on PIIndia.org must not consider the submission as a validation of sole ownership of the solution. Such a validation must ideally be part of independent measures to protect the intellectual property.

PIIndia.org does not take responsibility of any dispute resolution between submissions of solutions that match partially or fully.

PIIndia.org is a platform to rapidly mobilise professionals across the country to create solutions for problems emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic. The spirit of this process involves narrating impactful solutions in a mode of high public visibility. So, this is not the ideal space for teams and organizations that are not comfortable in letting the public eye on their solutions.

There is no alternate process available outside the present format of submission.

Solutions that are not selected to be taken to the next stages of the process will still remain a part of the public communication on the proposals that were submitted to PIIndia.org.