COVID-19 Global Hackathon Project List

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1	Category	Partner Organization	Problem/Need (the tl;dr)	Proposed Solution	More Info	Comments from Partner Org	Dev Team POCs (could be multiple)

2	Businesses	Local govts; orgs; local councils	Match people to local businesses in their neighborhoods so they can find out what businesses are doing & how they can support through COVID-19	Build a local community finder tool for people to find local businesses / how they can provide local support to their local communities	More Info
3	Community	Partner with non-tech staffing firms - Avitek Recruiting to help source positions, candidate pool and expansion	Jobs matching - non-technical positions and candidates.	With many people out of work, automate the matching of open jobs and candidates	More Info
4	Community	CARE	Companies like Doordash, Uber, Postmates, etc are seeing a 10x increase in demand. Many people are currently out of work. Can we bring those people looking for jobs to these gig roles to close the gap?	CARE has been working on a matchmaking solution pilot for the Bay Area but needs tech help to scale
5	Community	Sandbox	Bring the community closer together in difficult times	Connect vulnerable people in the community with volunteers or carers via an automated check-in service	More Info
6	Community	Multiple	Support lonely/vulnerable people who are in self-isolation	Open up mentorship tool for inter-generational coffee chats	More Info
7	Community	Islam Sherif	"Nomads" is a global community of members who want to support each other in the countries where they are currently based/have found themselves locked. How can we match and connect them?	Deliver support (eg. grocery/medication) for people who can't access basic needs easily	More Info
8	Community	Good Gym	Delivery for people who can't access basic needs easily	Activate own membership basel. Need engineering support to build a matching system	More Info
9	Community	Several partners	A high-adoption platform connects people requiring support with people able to offer support - eg. an exchange board	Create a board feature that can be easily accessible by local groups (somehow feed in into covid info centre?)
10	Education	ACTE	Education has moved to online delivery of instruction. Unfortunately for many career and technical education programs, going online with instruction is not fully possible due to the strong emphasis on hands-on and work-based learning experiences.	Can we turn our Blueprint content into more hands-on learning experience? Can we leverage our tools to allow for more practical/learn-by-doing online learning experiences?	More Info
11	Education	Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institute	Novel education systems present a unique opportunity for researchers to learn about various education techniques	To develop a platform where schools and school systems may fill out a survey with detailed information on how they are continuing to provide education in the face of school closures.	More Info
12	Education	Techbridge Girls	Now that non-profits who host workshops have to go online it will be critical to make it more accessible across many languages. Also, social emotional health is critial right now so providing that access is needed.	- Quality and Rapid translation support or platform (google translate does not cut it). - An SEL hub for parents to be able to deploy STEM at home with youth development in mind	More Info
13	Education	Be The Chance Consulting Techbridge Girls, Ready Learner One	Zoom and Hangouts Meet are not enough for synchronous learning experiences.	A meaningful synchronous learning tool that allows learners to watch content, "raise their hand" , breakout into groups, individual user call-outs i.e. a educator could call on a student to respond.	More Info
14	Entertainment		Music artists and booking agents make a lot, if not most, of their income through live touring and without the ability to sell tickets and perform live, they are losing the ability to ensure their livelihood.	Pay-Per-View technology for a high-quality live experience online, plus easy tools for artists to be able to live stream themselves in high quality video.	More Info
15	Entertainment	Turner Sports	Media partners do not have access to a proper control room so cannot go Live with multiple talent and incorporate broll into a single Facebook Live feed	Potential to integrate some sort of single stream. multiple camera usecase in Creator Studio	More Info
16	Entertainment	Broadway Producer	Because of the ban on gatherings of 50+ people in New York City, Broadway shows are unable to fill their theaters with paying audiences. This lack of ticket sales (both advance that needed to be refunded/exchanged and projected day-of sales) means that no money is coming in to the producers of these shows. They are unable to pay the following segments of the Broadway ecosystem, thus putting them out of work: Actors, Musicians, People working behind the scenes, People working in the theaters, Advertising, marketing and press teamsThe lack of revenue in the Broadway space has also affected other segments of the Broadway ecosystem: Ticketing Professionals (TodayTix, TKTS, TDF, etc.), Nonprofits that gather donations at shows (BCEFA, etc.)Some shows have completely ended their run and will not open again because of the financial hardships. Others have delayed their opening date.	PPV; In-app ticket sales; Tip jars	More Info
17	Health	Last Mile Health	With PPE shortage, are there more localized, decentralized hacks that allow high quality PPE (especially masks) to be produced especially in low-income countries like Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, and other parts of Africa where we're working to support thousands of community health workers?	Connect hospitals to people and organizations with 3D printers to print out PPE	More Info
18	Health	City of Portland, Fire and Rescue	Need a system to match individual hospital and other critical need with personal/business excess supplies.	Free postage to certain addresses such as hospitals or local distribution clearing houses. Could be modeled like free mail service that is provided for troops overseas.	More Info
19	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	It's difficult to find ways to tangibly help	Create a clearinghouse of potential ways to help including places to donate money and time	More Info
20	Health	WHO, UNICEF, CDC, others	Many organizations don't have the capacity to manage inbound donations are are unable to fully take advantage of the offerings	Create a tool for these organizations to track and manage inbound offerings and enable corporations to collaborate with each other to enhance offerings, ensure no duplication of services are provided, and remove administrative and coordination work from the health organizations	More Info
21	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	There might be a mismatch between hotspots of COVID19 and available medical facilities. Can hospitals across a region coordinate to decrease overburdening certain facilities while under-utilizing others?	As opposed to just going to the nearest facility, can we direct people to the "optimal" hospital for them, balancing various personal factors (i.e. their location, their mobility, their symptoms) with various factors of facilities (i.e. urgent care for testing, ER at specific hospital for fevers over 102)	More Info
22	Health	UCSF	Decrease transmission of COVID19 by enabling intensive contact tracing throughout the world as seen in South Korea and Singapore.	1) Alert people if they have been around somone who has a confirmed case 2) Allow people to track their own course post-exposure and link with health services/testing if they develop symptoms	More Info
23	Health	UCSF	Vulnerable populations are at much higher risk of having serious cases. How do we decrease their liklihood of contracting COVD19, especially in later stages of the crisis	Is there a way to keep vulnerable populations away from infected people, especially right after shelter-in-place mandates are lifted and people are less diligent?	More Info
24	Health	UCSF	Once shelter-in-place ends, social distancing is still going to be important but people won't take it as seriously	Can we build analytic solutions to assess the potential impact of specific social interventions (like varying school opening times, classes sizes or bus and BART schedules) on transmission, etc or can provide hyper-local information on risk that might inform behavior in real time	More Info
25	Health	Seed Global Health	There is a current need to support the rapid, distributed training of the health workforce in low-resource contexts on COVID-19 response.	Connect global health professionals virtually in a unified platform for COVID-19 response that include connectivity (for rural centers), video conferencing, updated clinical and triage protocols, as well as, teleconsulting to augment the scarce human resources available in many low-resources settings.	More Info
26	Health	WHO	Increase access to accurate prevention information around the world, in languages/formats that resonate locally	Translations + localization of the Coronavirus Information Center to 50+ countries, with prioritization informed by WHO	More Info
27	Health	WHO	Organizations don't have an easy way to broadcast their needs so that potential donors can provide money, supplies, knowledge, etc	WHO is building a “Partner Platform” that is attempting to create a marketplace for donors and countries/organizations in need.	More Info
28	Health	Harvard Innovation Labs	Decrease transmission of COVID19 by enabling intensive contact tracing throughout the world as seen in South Korea and Singapore.	1) Facebook should make it possible to self report covid symptoms 2) Users should be allowed to tag people they’ve seen and places they have been in the last 14 days.	More Info
29	Health	The Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthesia Care	Internet connectivity is a major blocker for low-and-middle-income countries. As more physical engagements move to virtual, how do we keep these people represented	1) truly and adequately address very low/slow internet connectivity on video conferencing 2) improve the interactivity of these platforms, so that those without video can still experience a high level of involvement in the meeting/event.	More Info
30	Health	Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria	What if we used technology to share how different countries and communities made big progress on the most deadly diseases.	Visuals of epi curves with interventions notedto encourage people to share ideas, tools, etc	More Info
31	Health	Public Health Institute	We need a better way to identify in real time the specific PPE and testing needs	Create a platform that is easily updated with data that can be input directly via digital tools as well as scanned paper versions from less sophisticated sites.	More Info
32	Health	Last Mile Health	Online and mobile training for community health workers: Training content that can be delivered to community health workers digitally is vital in this epidemic because (1) you can't bring everyone to a central location to train in places with widespread transmission due to social distancing and (2) the science, medicine, protocols etc is evolving quickly in this novel disease is evolving rapidly -- which means training content will need to be updated rapidly. Last Mile Health, through its online and mobile training platform, the Community Health Academy (seed funded by TED Prize and Audacious Project), is working with a host of partners to stand up a global training platform for any community health program and community health worker in in any country to use. What could the hackathon do to help us think of the best design for this platform?	Crowdsource existing content into one place	More Info
33	Health	It4life	Many countries have much more limited health care resources than places like the U.S. and will have a harder time combatting COVID19	Build a prediction model for COVID19 response (I.e. current hospital bed occupations, level of supplies, where cases are spreading, etc)	More Info
34	Health	WHO, UNICEF, CDC, governments	Health authorities are using various channels to disemminate important public health messaging about COVID-19 but They have little knowledge of the effectiveness of these campaigns	Develop a study/analysis/program for evaluating the health impact of various channels and public health messages	More Info
35	Health	mDoc	Majority of healthcare systems in Africa are weak and are mixed where both private and public sectors provide healthcare services. There is limited information available to citizens on where (public and private) testing sites or isolation centers (or self-isolation hotels) exist so they can plan for their care.	Need a comprehensive, real time center of truth that we can layer with additional assets like real-time ICU bed availability, equipment, ventilators etc. This will provide a means for patients, caregivers and communities to access information that will help empower them and enable them play a key role in their care.	More Info
36	Health	Ideo.org	What happens when shelter-in-place mandates are removed and people start lowering the barriers of social distancing? China saw an uptick in cases when people left their homes. There is a concern of a resurggence in COVID19 if we don't social distance long enough	Find ways to keep people social distancing for near futture	More Info
37	Health	mDoc	The role of COVID-19 in pregnancy is still largely unclear as there are limited case reports and studies on it. In our work, funded by MSD for Mothers, our virtual coaches who provide self-care guidance to pregnant women with chronic conditions, found that women were increasingly asking about their risk with COVID-19.	We decided to open up a free telegram group for women across Africa to ask questions of our virtual coaches on pregnancy and COVID and we use the latest, evolving, data to guide tem. We aren't sure it is the right platform or whether having it in a group format is the right way (given cultural beliefs etc around pregnancy across Africa) and we also need to have it in different languages so would appreciate help thinking about the expansion of this platform.	More Info
38	Health	PATH	Lack of readily available data on health facilities to use for the Covid-19 response causes delays in initial implementation and huge problems when trying syntehsize data across multiple tools.	Pull available health facility data sources into a central repository using the OpenHIE approved standard for health facility data	More Info
39	Health	The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	The economic downturn has also brought to life the huge number of holes in safety nets around the world. Documenting and quantifying these holes in the social safety net to inform future social protection policies would be a huge service.	Crowdsource public awareness of gaps in social safety net	More Info
40	Health	NHS, CDC	Many countries are making an active push to shift more appointments to telemedicine to reduce load on hospitals/ERs and reduce risk of transmission	Create a solution to make this seamless for providers and patients	More Info
41	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	People don't understand how COVD19 applies to their individual lives. Being able to apply broad public health advice to local and individual contexts would increase its resonance with people and thereby drive their compliance.	We imagine an app that can, given a location, tell the user something like the following: (1) should I social distance based on my area's risk (2) should I get a test based on my area's supplies and my personal symptoms (3) where can I find resources in my area for whatever my needs might be?	More Info
42	Health	PATH	National and regional data repostiory for case reports and contact tracing	Setup infrastructure for national and regional data repositories for case management and contact tracing using a HL7 FHIR compliant server This repository and visualizations should be deployed in multiple jursidicitons and should augment the infrastructure in Emergency Operation Centers.	More Info
43	Health	U.S. Digital Response	Problem: Hospitals need more healthcare providers.	Solution: A marketplace for soliciting and matching healthy nurses and doctors to facilities that need them.
44	Health	U.S. Digital Response	Problem: Hospitals need to understand future bed, staff, and PPE needs based on demand due to infections.	Solution: A tool that uses public data to forecast these needs. Example data sets: https://gabgoh.github.io/COVID/index.html, https://covidactnow.org/, https://coronadatascraper.com/
45	Vulnerable Populations	DoorDash	Getting food and groceries to vulnerable populations	Free deliveries to people > 50 years old	More Info
46	Vulnerable Populations	Local communities	Seniors are less able to order supplies online	Here is an example a friend posted of one way to help gain support from others in the community:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebfu_V97FBN23wX3jFU93iZOVzGJEo9Uk4KkY22tH-xFLnQg/viewform	More Info
47	Vulnerable Populations	SMB	People are out of work, especially in the gig economy	"Employment Center" with quick access to various unemployment resources and potential jobs	More Info
48	Vulnerable Populations	No Kid Hungry / Feeding America / United Way / Second Harvest	Food insecurity is skyrocketing	Enable solutions for targetted audiences by school district, get them partner messaging about their local path to food for their children.	More Info
49	Vulnerable Populations	International Rescue Committee Stop Soldier Suicide	Identify at-risk veterans in times of social isolation and get targeted assistance in front of them for resources for help/support	Identify ways that health messaging from partners can get to highly targeted audiences via trusted partners	More Info
50	Vulnerable Populations	International Rescue Committee WHO + Internal Civic team	Current case tracking of COVID is underreported and may vary widely by country	Create a Flu Map for COVID19 and use predictive modeling/mapping for gepgraphic areas	More Info
51	Vulnerable Populations	charity: water Center for Disaster Philanthropy	Half the schools in the world lack access to clean water/hygiene solutions and there is limited knowledge of hygiene practices making risk of infection higher with vulnerable populations in US and in countries with less developed hygiene infrastructure	Partner with organizations to uncover regional/country specific handwashing educational content and broadly distribute it to targeted audiences	More Info
52	Vulnerable Populations	Center for Disaster Philanthropy, US county depts of aging	Matching people and organizations with needs to people/orgs that can help provide them.	Adapt/enhance Community Help Matching Hub for various purposes related to COVID	More Info
53	Vulnerable Populations	TechChange	NGOs and govt agencies don't always have the necessary data science skill sets to leverage out Data for Good maps & tools	Tools for government agencies or NGOs with limited data skills to take advantage of datasets like the pop density mapping or disease prevention maps	More Info
54	Vulnerable Populations	University of Utah Center for Global Surgery	The elderly within communities are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality and most "tech" solutions that the mainstream population are using to navigate/cope with "remain in place" isolation orders are designed for user-experience way beyond their levels of digital literacy.	Create lo-fi tech solutions and features for the elderly to stay informed and connected	More Info
55	Vulnerable Populations	Nigeria Health Watch	Nigeria's informal sector has the largest workforce who usually earn daily incomes. As the country has introduced social distancing, they may lose their only sources of income.	Simulation that shows the impact of social distancing on both decreasing rate of infection but also the impact social distancing has on the economy and a way to relate that to individual countries, etc so that policymakers are able to conceptualize the pain and potentially help with relief packages, etc up front	More Info
56	Vulnerable Populations	UN Women	Understand gendered affects of the crisis	Deliver on-platform survey to collect data on issues like job losses, domestic violence, anxiety levels, issues related to confinement Or use existing data	More Info
57	Vulnerable Populations	U.S. Digital Response	Problem: Homebound seniors and other vulnerable populations need wellness checks.	Solution: A digital and/or in-person solution to facilitate check-ins while observing best practices in social distancing.
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1	Category	Partner Organization (Required)	Problem/Need (the tl;dr)	Proposed Solution	Tools/Tips/Resources e.g. link to more information (Strongly Recommended)	Help /Expertise Needed	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S

2	Businesses	Local govts; orgs; local councils	Match people to local businesses in their neighborhoods so they can find out what businesses are doing & how they can support through Covid	Build a local community finder tool (akin to the Covid hub) for people to find local businesses / how they can provide local support to their local communities
3	Community	Partner with non-tech staffing firms - Avitek Recruiting to help source positions, candidate pool and expansion	Jobs matching - non-technical positions and candidates.	With many people out of work, helping to automate the matching of open jobs and candidates to streamline the relevant pool for both candidate and hiring organization. Also, there is a population of non-technical / medical / etc workforce that is out of work, industries that can not work from home and in desperate need to find a job - how can our platform help?
4	Community	Sandbox	Bring the community closer together in difficult times	Automatte receiving a daily checkin call/text from someone in the commuinty - currenttly automated
5	Community	Multiple	Support lonely/vulnerable people who are in self-isolation	Open up mentorship tool for intergenerational coffee chats
6	Community	Good Gym	Deliver support (gorecy/medication) to people who can't reach it easily	Use their own members, need engineer support to build that new matching system	https://medium.com/digitalfund/leadership-from-digital-fund-grantees-in-unprecedented-change-e16f1490b6a9	engineer support
7	Community	Islam Sherif	"Nomads" is Global community of members who wants to support each other in the countries where they are currently based/have found themselves locked. How we match them?	Would love a tool where members can register how they can support (host/"moral support"/in kind donations/home schooling etc) and others can selected what they need and then members could be automatically matched for support.
8	Education	Techbridge Girls	Now that non-profits who host workshops have to go online it will be critical to make it more accessible across many languages. Also, social emotional health is critial right now so providing that access is needed.	- Quality and Rapid translation support or platform (google translate does not cut it). - An SEL hub for parents to be able to deploy STEM at home with youth development in mind		Eng support, UX design
9	Education	ACTE	Education has moved to online delivery of instruction. Unfortunately for many career and technical education programs, going online with instruction is not fully possible due to the strong emphasis on hands-on and work-based learning experiences.	We are so unprepared for this dramatic shift in teaching and document these skill proficiencies we have not been able to fully research or suggest specific solutions.' Can we turn our Blueprint content into more hands-on learning experience? Can we leverage our tools to allow for more practical/learn-by-doing online learning experiences?		There are a number of resources that describe what constitutes high-quality CTE and instructional strategies that need to be replicated online. Some of these can be found on ACTE’s web site at https://www.acteonline.org/professional-development/high-quality-cte-tools/engaging-instruction/.
10	Education	Be The Chance Consulting Techbridge Girls, Ready Learner One	Zoom and Hangouts Meet are not enough for synchronous learning experiences.	A meaningful synchronous learning tool that allows learners to watch content, "raise their hand" , breakout into groups, individual user call-outs i.e. a educator could call on a student to respond. Ready Learner One open to Messenger Kids build but this could be great adult professional development outside of MK		Front end engineer, data scientist, digital marketing, designer, etc.	Note: FERPA and COPPA concerns
11	Education	Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institute	Novel education systems present a unique opportunity for researchers to learn about various education techniques	To develop a platform where schools and school systems may fill out a survey with detailed information on how they are continuing to provide education in the face of school closures.		Research/survey design tools and eng support for building out the platform
12	Entertainment	Turner Sports	Media partners do not have access to a proper control room so cannot go Live with multiple talent and incorporate broll into a single Facebook Live feed	Potential to integrate some sort of single stream. multiple camera usecase in Creator Studio	Tried Kiswe and Zoom to solve for this but quality and experience isn't great - EXAMPLE with Shaq, Candace Parker, and D. Wade	All Resources – front-end engineer, UX designer, back-end engineer, QA analyst, data engineer
13	Entertainment	Broadway Producer	Because of the ban on gatherings of 50+ people in New York City, Broadway shows are unable to fill their theaters with paying audiences. This lack of ticket sales (both advance that needed to be refunded/exchanged and projected day-of sales) means that no money is coming in to the producers of these shows. They are unable to pay the following segments of the Broadway ecosystem, thus putting them out of work: Actors, Musicians, People working behind the scenes, People working in the theaters, Advertising, marketing and press teamsThe lack of revenue in the Broadway space has also affected other segments of the Broadway ecosystem: Ticketing Professionals (TodayTix, TKTS, TDF, etc.), Nonprofits that gather donations at shows (BCEFA, etc.)Some shows have completely ended their run and will not open again because of the financial hardships. Others have delayed their opening date.	PPV; In-app ticket sales; Tip jars	Broadway union payment deal information (article)Broadway businesses who have been affected (article)Here is an archive of the articles that have come out related to the shutdown if you’d like more specific information. Many Broadway shows have national and global fanbases who love the show from afar (listening to cast albums, following on social media, etc.) but are unable to get to New York City to see it. Reaching them digitally is a potential revenue stream that Broadway wasn’t able to utilize, except through touring shows.However, there are lots of rules about what theater professionals can/can’t do due to Actors' Equity Association’s protection of them. Of course, during these unprecedented times, things are up for discussion.
14	Entertainment	Red Light Management Paradigm	Music artists and booking agents make a lot, if not most, of their income through live touring and without the ability to sell tickets and perform live, they are losing the ability to ensure their livelihood.	Pay-Per-View technology for a high-quality live experience online, plus easy tools for artists to be able to live stream themselves in high quality video.	https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/paradigm-set-to-lay-off-over-100-staff-more-than-a-seventh-of-its-workforce-as-coronavirus-effect-on-live-music-hurts-agencies/
15	Health	WHO	Increase access to accurate prevention information around the world, in languages/formats that resonate locally	Translations + localization of the Coronavirus Information Center to 50+ countries, with prioritization informed by WHO		People who can help translate and/or validate translations are correct for specific locales
16	Health	WHO	Organizations don't have an easy way to broadcast their needs so that potential donors can provide money, supplies, knowledge, etc	WHO is building a “Partner Platform” that is attempting to create a marketplace for donors and countries/organizations in need.		Engineers
17	Health	NHS, CDC	Many countries are making an active push to shift more appointments to telemedicine to reduce load on hospitals/ERs and reduce risk of transmission
18	Health	Harvard Innovation Labs	Decrease transmission of COVID19 by enabling intensive contact tracing throughout the world as seen in South Korea and Singapore.	"A product akin to Safety-Check enabling people to self-report (mark themselves) as being symptomatic which allows people to quickly get the word out to those they contacted. Enabling people to mark themselves as being symptomatic and tag those they saw in the last 14 days would allow contact-tracing at scale." This type of self reported contact tracing would be effective for a number of reasons: 1) It allows two-sided contact tracing--usually unheard of. 2) It allows our society to gauge how many people in NY or Boston have covid beyond those being tested. (Of the lab members, not one of them were allowed to be tested, despite asking, because they did not meet criteria for health conditions or travel). 3) This allows people to suddenly see their close calls, and know how close the virus has come. 4) And perhaps most importantly, it allows people to know their actual exposures,	Link to full proposal by partner - Harvard Innovation Lab and Zik Emanuel https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7srbZUJ4KqfaQjmhrvotOZfyG0DZJTAV2-FuPCTzDY/edit?usp=sharing Additional info on contact tracing possibilities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4BQ97GSJS8ki5FfNvi_PQpuaLuNoUvinD0sGvupOSQ/edit?usp=sharing	Engineers who can build a product to enable people to mark themselves as having symptoms A product designer Data scientist
19	Health	PATH	Lack of readily available data on health facilities to use for the Covid-19 response causes delays in initial implementation and huge problems when trying syntehsize data across multiple tools.	Several sources of health facility data exist (e.g. Kenya Master Facility List, Tanzania Health Facility Registry) but they are all using proprietary APIs or CSV files to share the data out. Additionally, these lists are not available in a single repository to facilitate access. This solution would address these challenges by pulling avaiable health facility data sources into a central repository using the OpenHIE approved standard for health facility data which is based on HL7 FHIR and uses existing open-source tools (e.g. HAPI FHIR, GOFR).		* software developers to write ETL scripts to transform existing data into the HL7 FHIR format * devops engineers to setup central repository * technical writer/business analyst to document data transformation rules and workflows
20	Health	PATH	National and regional data repostiory for case reports and contact tracing	Setup infrastructure for national and regional data repositories for case management and contact tracing using a HL7 FHIR compliant server (e.g. HL7 FHIR). Incoming case management and contact tracing data can be assumed to compliant with HL7 FHIR (e.g. US Initial Case Report, emergent standards from OpenHIE Covid-19 Task Force) and should include dashboards and visualization tools to understand the virus. Eventually this repository would be fed by various front-line tools in case management and contact tracing (e.g. SORMAS, CommCare, DHIS2 Tracker, CHT). These source tools currently have proprietary data formats and would need to be supported by ETL process to express data using HL7 FHIR. This repository would likely be deployed in multiple jursidicitons and should augment the infrastructure in Emergency Operation Centers.		* devops engineers to ensure it is readily and repeatable deployable * software devs for creating dashboards and visualizations and support ETL process from source systems to FHIR standards
21	Health	PATH	Providing resilient digital health infrastructure	After this initial surge of the Covid-19 outbreak, already fragile health systems will be severly overburdened. The deployment and maintaince of the digitial health infrastructure in many LMICs has a high cost and many countries do not have the human capacity to effecitively manage these systems and ensure that consistent data is used across the digital health tools. With the available human and fiscal resources being directed to the short term outbreak response, we need to also support the reduction of this deployment and maintainace burden. Many countries have adopted the OpenHIE architecture as a basis for their national infrastrucutre and the newly launched Instant OpenHIE project is intended to help address this burden by leveraging kubernettes and providing a change management path towards cloud hosted environments following proper DevOps best practices. Unfortunately, the current plan for Instant OpenHIE was looking over a two-three year time frame before production ready assets would be available. We need to accelerate this work and ensure that all global good tools are wrapped in this intrastructure.		* devops engineers * unit and integration test devs
22	Health	Seed Global Health	There is a current need to support the rapid, distributed training of the health workforce in low-resource contexts on COVID-19 response.	Connect global health professionals virtually in a unified platform for COVID-19 response that include connectivity (for rural centers), video conferencing, updated clinical and triage protocols, as well as, teleconsulting to augment the scarce human resources available in many low-resources settings.	Seed Global Health Position paper on ICU/HDU preparedness in low-resource settings: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zr4frfyw6khtgh/Position%20Paper%20-%20Preparedness%20of%20Emergency%20and%20Intensive%20Care%20in%20COVID-19%20%20%28FINAL%29.pdf?dl=0 WHO COVID-19 Preparedness Guide: https://www.who.int/publications-detail/critical-preparedness-readiness-and-response-actions-for-covid-19 Rapidly expanding healthcare teams... in the fight against COVID-19: bit.ly/3a2Y5DP	Support in launching open education and training platforms (open edX, ECHO, Moodle, or similar). Increased connectivity for rural health centers to increase their connections to the referral network and better access online/remote support resources. Health professionals to participate in the network who have experience in emergency and critical care in low-resource settings. Editorial and design resources with experience in health communications for both public and professionals audiences. Resources to accelerate the convening and recruitment of global clinicians and experts to participate as mentors, peers, trainers.
23	Health	WHO, UNICEF, CDC, others	Many organizations don't have the capacity to manage inbound donations are are unable to fully take advantage of the offerings	Create a simple collaborative tool for these organizations to track and manage inbound offerings, and enable the corporations to collaborate with each other to enhance offerings, ensure no duplication of services are provided, and remove administrative and coordination work from the health organizations		If building new interface, need all resources (eng, UX, design, etc.) If building new process with existing product, need program managers, program designers
24	Health	WHO, UNICEF, CDC, governments	Health authorities are using various channels to disemminate important public health messaging about COVID-19 but They have little knowledge of the effectiveness of these campaigns	Develop a study/analysis/program for evaluating the health impact of various channels and public health messages		Marketing Science, Health Research, Data Science, Data Eng, Product Marketing, Content Strategy
25	Health	The Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthesia Care	Internet connectivity is a major blocker for low-and-middle-income countries. As more physical engagements move to virtual, how do we keep these people represented	I would love to see a tech solution that can 1) truly and adequately address very low/slow internet connectivity on video conferencing, and 2) improve the interactivity of these platforms, so that those who cannot connect via video (because of internet issues) or who are calling in by phone can still experience a high level of involvement in the meeting/event. The solution should focus on ease of use (features should be intuitive for someone who doesn't regularly use conferencing) and promoting collaboration and interaction, but especially functionality under low-bandwidth scenarios.
26	Health	Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria	What if we used technology to share how different countries and communities made big progress on the most deadly diseases.	Visuals of epi curves with interventions noted. Then people could react, share ideas, use these as organizing tools. FB could also show how the epi curves compare – where there is success and lack thereof and get a dialogue going about advocacy to achieve the better outcome. Not just for hiv but all the big killers, including COVID	We did this for six successful locations in the HIV response - https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/updates/other-updates/2020-03-23-global-fund-supports-countries-in-response-to-covid-19/
27	Health	Nigeria Health Watch	Nigeria's informal sector has the largest workforce who usually earn daily incomes. As the country has introduced social distancing, they may lose their only sources of income.	A solution that would help Nigerian policymakers contextualise social distancing without adversely disrupting livelihoods of low income earners.	How we know ending social distancing will lead to more deaths, in one chart, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/24/21192528/coronavirus-social-distancing-economy-deaths
28	Health	It4life	Many countries have much more limited health care resources than places like the U.S. and will have a harder time combatting COVID19	The predictive tool should allow to feed previous case data. The model could support adding current bed occupation and level of supplies. It should take geographical data into consideration (i.e. where cases are spreading are where hospitals are).		Designers would be needed to create an interface, engineers and data scientists.
29	Health	Ideo.org	With the COVID-19 crises, we are in and will be entering a new world. IDEO.org is thinking about the following: SPECULATIVE FUTURES How Might We (HMW) design for what would happen if everyone was allowed out of their houses tomorrow, amid the crisis? How Might We (HMW) monitor for COVID in a humane and safe way when social distancing decrees are lifted? How Might We (HMW) imagine a new future of work / a new future of family life / a new way to establish human connections, building on what we have practiced during self-isolation? HMW create a rapid sense of relatability to those countries that have not yet been hit hard? How Might We (HMW) support grassroots level efforts to prevent and combat COVID, where leadership cannot fill in?			Human-centered Designers (Design researchers, systems, experience, Business, etc.), Community workers, local residents, government workers.
30	Health	City of Portland, Fire and Rescue	Need a system to match individual hospital and other critical need with personal/business excess supplies.	Free postage to certain addresses such as hospitals or local distribution clearing houses. Postal worker, Amazon or Uber/Lyft could pickup limited size or special marked items at mail box or curbside. Could be modeled like free mail service that is provided for troops overseas. Individuals could now send even 1 excess box of gloves or masks sitting at home or business.	Military APO free mail system already in effect.	US postal reps, Uber/Lyft reps , So designers
31	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	People don't understand how COVD19 applies to their individual lives. Being able to apply broad public health advice to local and individual contexts would increase its resonance with people and thereby drive their compliance.	We imagine an app that can, given a location, tell the user something like the following: (1) should I social distance based on my area's risk (2) should I get a test based on my area's supplies and my personal symptoms (3) where can I find resources in my area for whatever my needs might be?		Anticipated skills: designer, marketer, engineer
32	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	There might be a mismatch between hotspots of COVID19 and available medical facilities. Can hospitals across a region coordinate to decrease overburdening certain facilities while under-utilizing others?	A website/app could direct people with symptoms to the "optimal" hospital for them -- one that balances their location and mobility and their symptoms with the capacity of hospitals around them. For instance, people with serious symptoms could go to the nearest hospital; people who have been in contact with a confirmed case could go to a hospital with tests available; people with a car could drive to a suburban hospital to free up capacity in urban areas for those who rely on public transit. Otherwise, we expect most people would simply go to the closest hospital (that takes their insurance), which might not make the most of our limited resources.		Anticipated skills: data scientist, front end engineer, back end engineer
33	Health	UCSF	Decrease transmission of COVID19 by enabling intensive contact tracing throughout the world as seen in South Korea and Singapore.
34	Health	UCSF	Vulnerable populations are at much higher risk of having serious cases. How do we decrease their liklihood of contracting COVD19, especially in later stages of the crisis		[Singapore government used an app like ‘TILE’ that alerted people if they had been close to confirmed cases, using Bluetooth data].
35	Health	UCSF	Once shelter-in-place ends, social distancing is still going to be important but people won't take it as seriously
36	Health	Center for RISC, University of Chicago	It's difficult to find ways to tangibly help	Several potential solutions to address pieces of this problem: 1) A national or international clearinghouse for financial mutual aid requests. Users could list their request and any other information, and the app could link to Venmo, Paypal, Cashapp, etc. for another user to send a payment. The app would then keep track of how much money each request has received, and automatically take it down when it has been completely filled. 2) A clearinghouse for funding nonprofit COVID19 response campaigns. There are lots of petitions and fundraisers going around right now for organizations supporting vulnerable people (service workers, incarcerated folks, immigrants, elderly care, and many more), and no one place for a person looking to give money (or time) to go and choose some to support. 3) An app that connects users with small businesses in their area that need support through COVID19 to stay afloat and continue paying employees. For instance, the app could show users a list or map of small businesses near them, and link directly to food delivery services, gift card purchases, and/or direct donations. 4) "Uber for grocery delivery"/"nonprofit Instacart": an app that matches volunteers with delivery requests from elderly, immunocompromised, or other people who are not able to leave their homes. The app would need to be accessible to disabled and elderly folks, and should also include safety instructions for the delivery person (e.g. wash your hands!).	As an example of how people are trying to solve this problem right now, here is a document where people are sharing and requesting aid in the Bay Area https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vl5jnGjzzFuV7Our-fI1MwyK25TqM6VzkoOZr-ECqng/edit#	We at RISC are in the beginning stages of thinking through ideas 1 & 2, and would certainly be interested in supporting any work to come out of this hackathon. However, we have not developed any specifics and certainly have no stake in owning the idea -- please take any/all of these and run with it, and we would be overjoyed to see these become reality.
37	Health	The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	The economic downturn has also brought to life the huge number of holes in safety nets around the world. Documenting and quantifying these holes in the social safety net to inform future social protection policies would be a huge service.
38	Health	Last Mile Health	With PPE shortage, are there more localized, decentralized hacks that allow high quality PPE (especially masks) to be produced especially in low-income countries like Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, and other parts of Africa where we're working to support thousands of community health workers?	We would propose exploring utilizing local materials to create PPE materials quickly- this includes gowns, gloves, masks that can be designed, deployed quickly. Are there markets that exist regionally (West Africa, Southern/East Africa, Central Africa) to help design, test and deploy these materials quickly?	A few links on the importance of Community Health Workers and the COVID-19 outbreak, authored by our team at Last Mile Health: - https://time.com/5806459/five-key-lessons-from-ebola-that-can-help-us-win-against-coronavirus-everywhere/ - https://lastmilehealth.org/prevent-detect-respond-against-covid-19/ - https://elemental.medium.com/op-ed-what-if-americans-unemployed-by-coronavirus-could-be-hired-to-fight-it-8066ac4434e0 Priorities for the Global COVID-19 Response (a piece we co authored with our coalition, the Community Health Impact Coalition: - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quxz5up90vWcbxb6HNHJ_vpsdhKP70pfjxrROTla6Pc/edit Community Health Workers in India are not equipped with hand sanitizer/masks but are still providing services- we need to equip them: - buzzfeednews.com/article/nishitajha/india-coronavirus-cases-ashas	Engineers who could help think through the design of PPE; Logisticians- who can explore markets in these regional hubs in Africa; Clinicians- to provide guidance on clinical viability and ensure safe use/design.
39	Health	Last Mile Health	Online and mobile training for community health workers: Training content that can be delivered to community health workers digitally is vital in this epidemic because (1) you can't bring everyone to a central location to train in places with widespread transmission due to social distancing and (2) the science, medicine, protocols etc is evolving quickly in this novel disease is evolving rapidly -- which means training content will need to be updated rapidly. Last Mile Health, through its online and mobile training platform, the Community Health Academy (seed funded by TED Prize and Audacious Project), is working with a host of partners to stand up a global training platform for any community health program and community health worker in in any country to use. What could the hackathon do to help us think of the best design for this platform?		https://blog.ted.com/register-for-the-first-course-of-the-community-health-academy/ https://www.chwcentral.org/blog/delivering-digital-educational-content-chws-global-scale
40	Health	Public Health Institute	We need a better way to identify in real time the specific PPE and testing needs	Creating a platform that is easily updated with data that can be input directly via digital tools as well as scanned paper versions from less sophisticated sites. This has to be done multiple times during the day and linked to a secure platform where sources of products can be identified and vetted to offer certified quality products available with prices and transport time. The purchaser can determine the best vendor for them and make purchase orders directly on the site. This latter may not work for government agencies but they can identify sources
41	Health	mDoc	Majority of healthcare systems in Africa are weak and are mixed where both private and public sectors provide healthcare services.	We have layered on some of this information onto our existing directory of healthcare services (www.navihealth.ai) but we need help to ensure that it is comprehensive, update in real time and also so we can layer it with additional assets like real-time ICU bed availability, equipment, ventilators etc. This will provide a means for patients, caregivers and communities to access information that will help empower them and enable them play a key role in their care.	www.navihealth.ai is the current site	Front-end designer, back-end developers (our stacks are node JS and react JS)
42	Health	mDoc	The role of COVID-19 in pregnancy is still largely unclear as there are limited case reports and studies on it. In our work, funded by MSD for Mothers, our virtual coaches who provide self-care guidance to pregnant women with chronic conditions, found that women were increasingly asking about their risk with COVID-19.	We decided to open up a free telegram group for women across Africa to ask questions of our virtual coaches on pregnancy and COVID and we use the latest, evolving, data to guide tem. We aren't sure it is the right platform or whether having it in a group format is the right way (given cultural beliefs etc around pregnancy across Africa) and we also need to have it in different languages so would appreciate help thinking about the expansion of this platform.	https://bit.ly/covid19inpregnancy	front end and back end dev
43	Vulnerable Populations	DoorDash	Getting food and groceries to vulnerable populations	Free deliveries to people > 50 years old		Engineers
44	Vulnerable Populations	International Rescue Committee Stop Soldier Suicide	Identify at-risk veterans in times of social isolation and get targeted assistance in front of them for resources for help/support	Identify ways that health messaging from partners can get to highly targeted audiences via trusted partnesr (for example, IRC info getting to large refugee camps) Scale up targeted ads towards potentially at risk veterans (use an email list of veterans who have committed suicide and target a look alike audience to those emails with support resources)	IRC's response plan doc outlines 'risk communication and community engagement' as a need for global vulnerable populations: https://www.dropbox.com/s/56tcwjmd3oluoib/2020.03_IRC%20COVID-19%20Concept%20Note%20Response%20Plan%5B1%5D.pdf?dl=0	Health team input, partners such as IRC/UNICEF to identify communities and messaging, help from product/eng resources with expertise in targeting via QPs, ads and other units on platform
45	Vulnerable Populations	International Rescue Committee WHO + Internal Civic team	Current case tracking of COVID is underreported and may vary widely by country	Perhaps a unit that allows people in a specific community to flag any systems to a medical board, allow for strong contact tracing? a la Flu Map from CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm Predictive modeling/mapping to improve estimates of COVID tracking data: 1) probably underreporting by country 2) predicted future size of outbreak/spread trajectory by country, per day/week/month	IRC's response plan doc outlines 'community level surveillance activities' as a need for global vulnerable populations: https://www.dropbox.com/s/56tcwjmd3oluoib/2020.03_IRC%20COVID-19%20Concept%20Note%20Response%20Plan%5B1%5D.pdf?dl=0	Health/policy input to identify key issues and approach around a Facebook powered/amplified globaly 'flu map' for COVID-19. Lots of privacy specialist input early. Then product + eng resources to build.
46	Vulnerable Populations	charity: water Center for Disaster Philanthropy	Half the schools in the world lack access to clean water/hygiene solutions and there is limited knowledge of hygiene practices making risk of infection higher with vulnerable populations in US and in countries with less developed hygiene infrastructure	Partner with WASH organizations to uncover regional/country specific handwashing educational content and help broadly distribute it to targeted audiences Platform solution or QP/messaging tool to inform users of proper WASH practices and where they find their closest available WASH station	From CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/global-handwashing-day.html UNICEF paper explaining their program around educating on WASH programs in schools in the developing world: https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/CFS_WASH_E_web.pdf	Health team input, partners such as charity: water, UNICEF, World Vision etc to identify communities and messaging, help from product/eng resources with expertise in targeting via QPs, ads and other units on platform
47	Vulnerable Populations	University of Utah Center for Global Surgery	The elderly within communities are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality and most "tech" solutions that the mainstream population are using to navigate/cope with "remain in place" isolation orders are designed for user-experience way beyond their levels of digital literacy.	Tech solutions that are adaptive to lo-fi solutions already in use by the elderly to connect in the context or intergenerational community, to be informed safely (clear of fake news), and participate in survival strategies (shopping, banking, working?). The key here is tech that does not have a learning curve OR learning cost.
48	Vulnerable Populations	No Kid Hungry / Feeding America / United Way / Second Harvest	Food insecurity is skyrocketing	Enable solutions for targetted audiences by school district, get them partner messaging about their local path to food for their children. Gather more information on process and sources for access to food from food bank for at risk populations who may not be aware of changes to service and new options for safe food delivery.	No Kid Hungry has different approach to getting food to families in need in every state: https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/heres-how-youre-supporting-hungry-kids-affected-coronavirus-state, here is how Feeding America is trying new strategies to get food to communities in need: https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/3-ways-food-banks-are-feeding-kids-and-families-while-schools-are-closed
49	Vulnerable Populations	Center for Disaster Philanthropy, US county depts of aging	Matching people and organizations with needs to people/orgs that can help provide them.	Adapt/enhance Community Help Matching Hub for various purposes related to COVID - hospitals can post their PPE needs and corporations/individuals can share PPE inventory they have; mental health workers can post offers of support for frontline workers; seniors can post tech support questions and get help from family members, senior facility workers, or younger gen volunteers; etc.	See "Critical Needs": https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/2019-ncov-coronavirus/	Engineers, DS
50	Vulnerable Populations	UN Women	Understand gendered affects of the crisis	Deliver on-platform survey to collect data on issues like job losses, domestic violence, anxiety levels, issues related to confinement
51	Vulnerable Populations	TechChange	NGOs and govt agencies don't always have the necessary data science skill sets to leverage out Data for Good maps & tools	Tools for government agencies or NGOs with limited data skills to take advantage of datasets like the pop density mapping or disease prevention maps
52	Vulnerable Populations	Local communities	Seniors are less able to order supplies online	Here is an example a friend posted of one way to help gain support from others in the community:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebfu_V97FBN23wX3jFU93iZOVzGJEo9Uk4KkY22tH-xFLnQg/viewform