With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• cities

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects
• Surveys & polling

The COVID Challenge Platform is a no-cost clearinghouse to connect healthcare and government agencies to the resources they urgently need to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The People
• Get funding
• COVID

The COVID Memorial is a place to share remembrances of loved ones lost to the coronavirus pandemic, and to encourage public health measures that can prevent more deaths in the future.

• Narrative tech
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed

• civic features
• mobility

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

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.

• The People
• COVID
• Help out

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

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

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.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

COVID19CZ je společná aktivita několika českých technologických firem a IT nadšenců zaměřená na pomoc v boji s nákazou COVID-19.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

from National Geographic

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Another open source self-assessment tool, by the Ontario government

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Bots

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• COVID

Coronavirus 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.

• apps
• COVID-19

• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

To combat what the World Health Organization has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, BBC News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• COVID Engagement Projects

Another Google Doc: a growing list of mutual aid pandemic disaster care

• The People
• COVID
• Help out

Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

This extension filters through and hides all of the locations on the OK vaccine portal which currently don't have appointments.

• extensions

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Open Google Doc resources

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

As 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.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Alojamento para profissionais de saúde

• housing

• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

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.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• COVID
• Hardware

Crowdsourced document curated by Newspeak House

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID
• Help out

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy
• Reports

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• COVID
• Solutions journalism

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• High-tech COVID Interventions
• Emerging Tech report

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.

Connect and live more safely. Citizen is a personal safety network that empowers you to protect yourself and the people and places you care about. Download for COVID-19 contact tracing, access to real-time 911 alerts, instant help from crisis responders, and safety tracking for friends and families. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-car-private-security https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/business/citizen-app-arson-wildfire-devin-hilton.html

• apps
• crime

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• cities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Radio

Chiediamo dati aperti e machine readable sull’emergenza Covid-19

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Open government data