7000 Women Mostly From India And Us Create A World Record For Hackathon Ahead Of Women S Day

Exactly 7134 women participants, majority of them of India and United States got together for a three-day coding marathon organized by Bengaluru-based coding platform HackerEarth that began on Friday. Out of the 7134 women participants, nearly 80 percent were from India, 12 percent for the United States and the rest from 34 countries around the world including UK, New Zealand, Chile, and Iraq. The code fest which was a online event was so organised as to end on International Women’s Day on March 8th. Participants in the code fest had to build software products under any of three themes — productivity, social and gamification. The women programmers are from companies including Walmart Labs, Altimetrik, ThoughtWorks, Snapdeal, Akamai, SanDisk, Harman, Capillary, HCL, AT&T, Freshdesk, VMware and Practo. Some of these companies, as also IT industry association Nasscom’s 10,000 Startups initiative, are backing the event. And wait it is not over yet, so a fresh record may be created by the time it ends tomorrow.