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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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This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
A 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.
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.
We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.
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FranceFostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19
A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.
Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A directory of over 900 COVID mutual aid local groups all across the UK, mostly via Facebook groups, and a backgrounder on what they are and how to start one.
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home
A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches
covid19italia.help
RomeA crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.
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.
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.
Brightest COVID-19 Relief
Brightest, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAConnecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support
Berliner Gehwegbreiten
CityLAB BerlinA map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData
Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.
An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace
Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization
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.
Tech Kontra Wirus
PolandCode for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas
The Self-Quarantine Manifesto
Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).
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.
COVID19CZ je společná aktivita několika českých technologických firem a IT nadšenců zaměřená na pomoc v boji s nákazou COVID-19.
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.
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, NYSafe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.
Website that shows country-by-country coronavirus social distancing responses
Rooms Against COVID
PortugalAlojamento para profissionais de saúde
IHELPYOU.app
PolandInspired 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.
Posters and social media resources for Canva users
Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings across the following topics: Data platforms and privacy-preserved tracingNovel testing for both COVID-19 and antibodiesTreatments and vaccine developmentDecentralized supply chains and open-source hardwareVulnerable populations and protecting at-risk groupsStrengthening the safety net to deliver aid and preserve/create jobsHealth system and workforce protections and capacityPublic-private partnership opportunitiesOpen innovation initiatives
a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview
Portland, ORA platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints
First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.
Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change
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.
Crowdsourced document curated by Newspeak House
We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.
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