The global pandemic known as the coronavirus (COVID-19) has inspired a global response. This page will be continuously updated with virtual events, funding opportunities, and collaborative civic tech projects that will try to help the world respond and recover.
We’re also working to help connect people working on immediate coronavirus responses with resources to assist and help make them more effective. You can help others or ask your own query of the community here.
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Coronavirus Engagement Projects
How are people engaging the public and private sectors to help contribute to a collective response to the pandemic? How are people helping to contribute informal, mutual aid, to address common needs like social connection and remote work? How is the trend towards digital civic engagement accelerating because of social distancing requirements? We’ll track global responses to these needs here.
Example projects:
Coronavirus Print & Social Media Resources to help #StopTheSpread
Posters and social media resources for Canva users
CovidMeasures.info
- www.covidmeasures.info
- Civic data, Coronavirus Data Projects, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Coronavirus Government Projects, Crowdsourced data collection, Crowdsourcing
Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures
A/D/O, Norman Avenue, Brooklyn...
Hack from Home Hackathon
- g0v.hackmd.io
- Build something, Civic hackathons, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, The People
A clever response to event cancellations due to the coronavirus
Taiwan...CovidMeasures.info
- www.covidmeasures.info
- Civic data, Coronavirus Data Projects, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Coronavirus Government Projects, Crowdsourced data collection, Crowdsourcing
Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures
A/D/O, Norman Avenue, Brooklyn...
Overview of government measures in response to COVID19
Crowdsourced document curated by Newspeak House
Conferencing for Government Meetings
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
CovidMeasures.info
- www.covidmeasures.info
- Civic data, Coronavirus Data Projects, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Coronavirus Government Projects, Crowdsourced data collection, Crowdsourcing
Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures
A/D/O, Norman Avenue, Brooklyn...
COVID-19 map
- raw.githack.com
- Civic data, Civic maps, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Data Projects, Data visualization, Mapping, The Tech
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.
Taiwan...
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.
Resources for organizers, campaigners and digital strategists to respond to coronavirus
A resource hub for responding to coronavirus, compiled from a massive organizers' call
Mutual Aid National Connections
- mutualaidnational.slack.com
- Civic tech forums, listservs, and Slacks, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Organizing Projects, Listservs, Meet the others, Socialize online, The People
Our goal is to bring our diverse networks into more effective coordination, for the duration of this crisis and beyond.
COVID-19 Response Community Slack
- docs.google.com
- Civic tech forums, listservs, and Slacks, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Organizing Projects, Listservs, Meet the others, Socialize online, The People
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.
Facebook ads for World Health Organization Coronavirus Information
Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.
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.
Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies
- www.facebook.com
- Coronavirus, Digital fabrication, Emtech Projects, Hardware, High-tech civic tech, High-tech Coronavirus Interventions
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.
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.
The OpenCovid19 Initiative
Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.
Funding opportunities
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19
- Mobilizing a private sector response to COVID-19
- $1 million+ in Emergent Ventures Prizes for coronavirus work
- Best investigative journalism on coronavirus — 50k
- Best blog or social media tracking/analysis of the virus — 100k
- Best (justified) coronavirus policy writing — 50k
- Best effort to find a good treatment rapidly — 500k, second prize 200k
- Best innovation in social distancing — 100k
- Most important innovation or improvement for India — 100k
- Sam Altman: Funding for COVID-19 Projects
- Gates Foundation: Announcing the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
- UK Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) regarding the Availability of Emergency Competitive Revisions for Research and also
- Forcit Non-Profit Venturing Program: call for the program is extended for an unlimited time and fully open for non-profits and initiatives that need guidance, experts to build impactful solutions that can help in this crisis.
Past:
- The EU: Applications welcome from startups and SMEs with innovative solutions to tackle Coronavirus outbreak
- An existing funding source, the $1M Roddenberry Prize, would like to “strongly encourage applications that address the range of societal, health, and economic repercussions of the pandemic.”
Most civic tech conferences are moving online and are free of charge. Why not join in?
Modernizing Congress: Bringing Government into the 21st Century
July 1, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://codeforamerica.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ujn3gEVYSVG5WSp8g7VvGQ
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Code for All Summit Day 1
July 14, 2020
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-all-summit-2020-tickets-109112378060
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Code for All Summit Day 2
July 20, 2020
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-all-summit-2020-tickets-109112378060
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Code for All Summit Day 3
July 22, 2020
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-all-summit-2020-tickets-109112378060
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RightsCon
July 27, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Online
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