Health hack day

Day two continues at the Novotel until lunchtime, when the Hack day will move across to the Rewired Conference and Exhibition at Olympia London, concluding with presentations from the teams and a community vote for the winning project.

The Rewired Hack Day is free to register and inclusive to anyone working in digital health. Places are limited. To secure your place make sure to register early. If you have any questions please contact fabiana digitalhealth. In September, in the run up to Cop26, colleagues from across the product and engineering department, as well as other parts of the organisation, came together for another exciting remote hack day focused on the climate crisis.

For this virtual hack day of , we had a dedicated focus: Cop26 and the environment. The recent IPCC report makes for grim reading which is why we decided to focus our attention on developing new interactive tools for our readers to stay informed. We produced and presented 19 amazing hacks over the two-day event, including a tool to read product ingredients and determine if they are vegan or not, a visualisation of the world showing data about temperature changes over the last century, an app for extending the life of all your belongings and keeping them out of landfill and an app that uses data from waqi.

Below is a selection of the best concepts and designs from the event. Recycling in the UK can be confusing; we noticed recycling rules change depending on which borough, town and region UK readers live in. This hack aims to tap into the emotions of readers of environmental stories, triggering hope and inspiring change by offering a lighthearted quiz that educates and tests their knowledge of the recycling rules in their local area.

A full width editorial module with a postcode finder would be displayed in the environment and climate crisis sections for the UK audience. It would trigger an overlay of recycling statistics about an area and start a quiz using public data that contains all the regional recycling rules and national stats.

We could make the Guardian much lighter, by removing the javascript, trackers, ads and webfonts. This hack day this idea was taken to its extreme with lower-fi Guardian: an edition of the Guardian for Telnet, a networking protocol that came before the world wide web, all the way back in