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In 2020, we curated this collection of civic tech responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic. We connected our community to virtual events, funding opportunities, and collaborative civic tech projects that tried to help the world respond and recover.
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Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
Let's Talk Vaccines
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAA free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
Local Needs Databank
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The Local Needs Databank (UK) is an open set of needs and Covid-19 data, specifically about those in financial hardship in the UK.
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.
Tech Kontra Wirus
Poland (Polska)Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas
We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.
Berliner Gehwegbreiten
CityLAB BerlinA map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData
Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization
Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings
Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change
a selection of guidelines and discussions produced by First Draft on reporting disinformation around coronavirus and other topics ethically and responsibly, as well as a curated list of other resources to help you navigate potential issues covering what the WHO has called an ‘infodemic’.
Invisible Hands
New York CitySafe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.
Covid-19 Ministerio de Salud Argentina
ArgentinaCoronavirus Covid-19 es la app oficial del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación y tiene como objetivo que los argentinos y las argentinas puedan realizarse una rápida autoevaluación para saber si sus síntomas son compatibles con el COVID-19.
IHELPYOU.app
Poland (Polska)Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.
COVID19CZ je společná aktivita několika českých technologických firem a IT nadšenců zaměřená na pomoc v boji s nákazou COVID-19.
Facebook ads for World Health Organization Coronavirus Information
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAFacebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
Posters and social media resources for Canva users
We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.
covid19italia.help
RomeA crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
Website that shows country-by-country coronavirus social distancing responses
An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
133 Bethnal Green Road Londona crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
Crowdsourced document curated by Newspeak House
Health Sites
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap
The Self-Quarantine Manifesto
A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.
Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.
Apple Maps COVID-19 Testing Locations
Cupertino, CAAs a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.
COVID-19 self-assessment tool
OntarioAnother open source self-assessment tool, by the Ontario government
A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.
A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches
Hack from Home Hackathon
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)A clever response to event cancellations due to the coronavirus
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
Digital Health Lab
San FranciscoAt Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.
This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.
This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.
Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview
Portland, ORA platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints
The App Store should always be a safe and trusted place for users to download apps. Now more than ever that commitment takes on special significance as the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 map
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.
A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.
First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.
Brightest COVID-19 Relief
Brightest, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAConnecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support
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