With this project my team and I placed top 5 out of ~40 projects in the Pathcheck Hackathon in increasing the adoption of a COVID tracing application in Minnesota (Goal of 50% adoption). The recommendation we developed was sent to PathCheck for consideration.

In this project, my team and I participated in a PathCheck hackathon with the theme of reaching a 50% adoption rate of a COVID tracker application in the state of Minnesota.

We did a root cause analysis on the reasons of why COVID tracker applications were not reaching high adoption rates, and figured that it was a problem of incentives. The people who are asked to adopt these COVID tracker applications do not see direct or immediate benefits of their actions, thus decreasing their probability of accepting the applicaiton. Our reccomendation relied on providing financial incentives for someone to join the applicaiton to hit a growth curve and thus achieve a network effect.