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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Projects

View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Engagement Tech projects

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.

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View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Govtech projects

Coronavirus Govtech Projects

Resources for governments to better engage the public, and vice versa. We will better understand our reliance on effective governance more than we have in recent years.

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View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Civic Data projects

Coronavirus Data Projects

Open datasets, civic data, government data, data visualizations, and other key sources for coronavirus response work.

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View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Advocacy Tech projects

Coronavirus Advocacy Projects

How do we engage in politics in a new era of social distancing? What role does watchdogging and transparency serve? Which campaigns will we support to build the world we need?

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View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Media Tech projects

Coronavirus Media Projects

State and non-state actors are taking advantage of the panic and uncertainty surrounding the pandemic to destabilize democracies. How do we counter this misinformation? Resources for journalists and informed citizens alike.

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View the Civic Tech Field Guide’s full collection of Emerging tech projects

Emerging Tech and Hardware

How can emerging technologies like AI support us in these times? Can they? Medical supplies are in very short supply – are there safe, effective public responses to help fill the need?

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Funding opportunities

Resistance Labs is offering $10,000 in-kind grants to make use of its SMS platform for community COVID relief organizing (rolling basis)
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?

Democracy Tech vs. Disinfo: A Global Review feat. @mstem @CodeforAll @NDI @civictechguide
December 13, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdV31HPOv_-LfDbNAYYRx-a8vPZTOLaW3Gbtfm2Ur0QGCAZWQ/viewform
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Scaling Civic Technology: Transitioning to Civic Technology by @USDResponse
December 13, 2022 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scaling-civic-technology-transitioning-to-civic-technology-tickets-474193504537
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Effectively and Safely Sharing Government Data With the Public @CenDemTech
December 15, 2022 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/effectively-and-safely-sharing-government-data-with-the-public-tickets-476466773947
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The State of Data for the Public Good in Europe @databarometer
December 16, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuceqqqTssH9Un1dmOtqENVhHT404WYeD6
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