Chennai startup bags award for its easy vax booking system | Chennai News

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GoFloaters, a Chennai-based startup, has won the Best Innovation Award at the Open Innovation Challenge organised by Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission (Tansim) of Tamil Nadu government for providing innovative solutions to the problems faced by the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation to improve the pace of Covid-19 vaccine distribution.
Minister for rural industries T M Anbarasan handed over a certificate of merit and cash award to founder-cum-CEO Shyam Sundar Nagarajan at an event in Chennai on Friday.
The competition was conducted to address issues in vaccination booking by providing innovative technology-driven solutions. While 20 startups were identified for the competition after vetting, GoFloaters was adjudged the winner. The ideas are, however, yet to be put in use by the Coimbatore corporation, which follows a conventional booking system, where people have to visit vaccination camps an hour before the camp starts.
GoFloaters, founded in 2018, is an on-demand workplace booking platform that connects professionals who do not have a permanent office and people offering office on rent on daily and monthly basis. “The Chennai corporation required a platform to enable vaccination booking programmes to meet the demand in April. With the experience of running the booking website, we played a significant role in designing an exclusive portal for Chennai corporation, which has been used by more than 2.5 lakh people,” Shyam said. “We learned about the competition to provide innovative solutions for Coimbatore corporation and decided to take part. We provided the template created for Chennai with additional features like booking through missed call, scanning QR code and booking through WhatsApp.”