Civic Tech Field Guide

Do not touch your face dot com

Do Not Touch Your Face is a tool that helps you avoid touching your face using your webcam and machine learning.

Open Source Ventilators Subreddit

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

Hack from Home Hackathon

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A clever response to event cancellations due to the coronavirus

Database of Localized Resources During Corona Outbreak

Covers local mutual aid, self care, mental health, kids, funders, messaging, and relief funds

Google Trends Coronavirus dashboard

A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches

Google

En première ligne

France

Fostered solidarity networks against the COVID-19

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Areyousafe.work

An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace

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Digital Health Lab

San Francisco

At 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.

Mutual Aid National Connections

Our goal is to bring our diverse networks into more effective coordination, for the duration of this crisis and beyond.

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.

F4c-response listserv

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.

Quero Ajudar

Portugal

Uma aplicação portuguesa de entreajuda comunitária

Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview

Portland, OR

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

Open Respirator

This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.

Nuru

Kenya

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

Apple bans coronavirus apps from the App Store

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.

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Lokale Geschäfte in Berlin Karte

Berlin

A map of local restaurants offering pick-up and delivery

Chicago Test Out

Chicago, IL

This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

bldg.app

Brooklyn, NY

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

Das Land Hilft

Germany (Deutschland)

Call to donate unused protective equipment

Coronavirus Resource Kit

A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.

Chilecracia

Chile

¡Sigue los proyectos de ley de tu interés! Encuentra proyectos relacionados a las propuestas hechas en Chilecracia y proyectos de la Agenda social y anti-abuso del Gobierno.

FAQ Coronavirus questions for journalists

by First Draft News

Coronavirus: Information sources

First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.

Project Open Air

We are working on medical devices, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.

Self-fabricated Face Shields

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot

Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

Microsoft

Detect study

Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

Project Carola

Berlin

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

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First Draft News Coronavirus Resources for reporters

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 Berlin

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

Coronavirus Reponse: Ways to Help, Volunteer, and What to Do

Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Campaigning during Corona

Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change

Resources for organizers, campaigners and digital strategists to respond to coronavirus

A resource hub for responding to coronavirus, compiled from a massive organizers' call

Wsparcie dla Szpitala

Poland (Polska)

Coordination of the bottom-up support for the hospitals

Coronavirus: Responsible reporting and ethics

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 City

Safe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.

Ask Nameesa

Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.

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.