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The Coronavirus Tech Handbook is a crowdsourced library of tools, services and resources relating to COVID-19 response. It is a rapidly evolving resource with thousands of expert contributors.

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Contents

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Tools For Developers 💻

• Tech Communities

• Hackathons

• Resource Libraries

• Funding Overview all kinds of jobs, grants or philanthropy related to Coronavirus

• Funding for Innovators

• Tech Discounts free hosting, etc

Tools For Everyone 😷

• Isolation Toolkit

• Mental Health

• Exercise

• Housing

• Hygiene & Masks

• Food *NEW

• Retail & Delivery

• Things to do at Home

• Solitary Isolation

• High Density Living *NEW*

• Worship

• Pets

• Petitions

• Surveys Have your say! *NEW*

• Studies Currently Recruiting Science needs you!

• Learn about Coronavirus

• Contact Tracing

Tools For Parents & Guardians 🚸

• Parenting & Chioldcare

• Teenagers and Young Adults

• Educational Content

Tools For Vulnerable People 😓

(and those supporting them)

• Homelessness

• Unemployment

• Gig Work

• Personal Finances and Debt

• Digital Inclusion *NEW*

• Domestic Abuse

• Addiction

• Loneliness *NEW*

• Older People

• People with Pre-existing Health Conditions *NEW*

• People with Disabilities

• Refugees *NEW*

• Racial and Ethnic Minorities *NEW*

Tools For Remote Workers 📞

• Remote Working

• Teleconferencing

• Event Alternatives How to organize and facilitate distributed events, meetings or conferences.

• Remote Management

Tools For Sick People 🤒

• People with Preexisting Health Conditions

• Infected Advice for the infected or suspected, and their friends & family.

• Self-Reporting Crowd-sourcing data on the outbreak

• Contact Tracing

• End of Life Planning Making a will, funeral arrangements, etc

Tools For Mourners 🕯

• Bereavement Practical steps and support for after someone you know has died

• Memorials *NEW*

Tools For Volunteers 🙌 & Group Organizers 💪

• Registers of Mutual Aid Groups Directories of local groups

• How to Run a Mutual Aid Group think Ideas and tools

• Time or Skills Matching Helping people and groups find people they need

• Managing Money in Mutual Aid Groups Mutual credit systems, lending libraries…

• Conflict Resolution Approaches to mediating conflicts in mutual aid groups

• Volunteering & Organizing Tools to organize volunteer activity

• Resources for Protesting Safely Tools and practices to protest safely (RO)

Tools For Engineers 📐 & Manufacturers 🏭

• Ventilators

• Masks

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) N95 respirators, goggles, gloves, gowns...

• Sanitisers Wash your hands!

• Other Hardware Designs & DIY Infection sensors, oxygen concentrators, hygiene hacks

• Funding for Engineers *NEW*

Tools For Healthcare Workers 🏥

• Doctors Protocols, Lab findings, ICU, Medications, Telemedicine

• Testing for infection

• Nurses

• Carers & Care Homes Keeping the most vulnerable safe away from ICU

• Makeshift Hospitals *NEW*

• Discounts for Healthcare Workers *NEW*

Tools For Local Government 📋

• Service Design & User Research practical principles for designing services in a crisis

• Local Government *NEW*

• Cities *NEW*

Tools For Charities & Civil Society🎗

• Charities & Civil Society register of charities, crisis evaluation, emergency funding

• Service Design & User Research practical principles for designing services in a crisis

• Charitable Funding

• Grantmaking & Fundraising *NEW*

• Humanitarians

• Religious Institutions

• Elections

• Environmentalists

• Public Sector Responses NGOs can see what local and national governments are doing, to find where other services are needed.

Tools For Workers & Businesses 💼

• Employers & Managers

• Workers, Cooperatives & Unions

• Small Business

• Freelance and Self Employment

• Startups *NEW*

• Unemployment

• Gig notWork

• Retail & Delivery

• Business Trends *NEW*

• Artists and Art Organisations *NEW*

• Private Sector Response Responses by large firms and business organisations

• Landlords and Renters

Tools For Consumers 🛒

• Consumer Advice

• Scams

• General Discounts

• Personal Finances and Debt *NEW*

Tools For Strategists 📉

• Economic Analysis *NEW*

• Consumer Trends

• Sentiments

• Cultural and Social Shifts

Tools For Teachers & Students 🎓

• Education How to close a school, how to run online seminars, etc.

• Remote Education Advice, LMS, collaboration

• Educational Content For parents, children, students and teachers

• Medical Students

• Online Assessment *NEW* Info for staff and students

Tools For Researchers 🔬

• Vaccine Development

• Science & Research

• Tools for Researchers Pre-print review, distributed computing, open science initiatives

• Funding for Research

• Studies Currently Recruiting Science needs you!

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) of papers, clinical data, social media, etc.

• Library Workers

Tools For Epidemiologists 📈

• Epidemiology Data Datasets tracking cases, deaths, transmissions, etc

• Data Standards and Data Governance for COVID-19 data. *NEW*

• Data Tools Tools, scripts and technical advice for working with COVID-19 data *NEW*

• Self-Reporting Crowdsourcing data on the outbreak

• Contact Tracing

• Infodemiology *NEW*

• Infographics Dashboards, visualizations, graphs, charts, maps, etc.

• Modelling and Forecasting Mathematical models, simulations, prediction markets, etc

• Testing for infection

• Funding for Modelling *NEW*

Tools For Journalists 📰

• Funding for Journalism

• Fighting Misinformation

• Infographics Dashboards, visualisations, graphs, charts, maps, etc.

• Campaigns, behaviour change, call to actions and awareness

• Public Advice public health advice, educational summaries, diagnostic questionnaires...

• Sentiments What do people think about the situation?

• Natural Language Processing of papers, clinical data, social media, etc.

Tools For Policymakers ✍️ & Representatives 🏛

• Government Responses by Country Responses by regional, national and sub-national governments organised by region and country.

• Government Response What are all the governments doing? Listing actions and comparing approaches. Both local and national governments.volunteering

• Public Sector Response Global and intergovernmental responses and comparative analysis

• Private Sector Response

• Democracy Elections, voting, protesting, etc.

• Parliamentarians

• Funding for Democracy, and Strategy

• Public Advocacy Reasoned recommendations from think tanks and thought leaders for how governments should respond to the pandemic.

Tools For Law & Justice ⚖️

• Law & Justice

• Law Enforcement *NEW*

• Courts

• Prisons

• Legal Aid *NEW*

• Law Firms *NEW*

Other Things 🤔

• Miscellaneous Projects that don’t seem to fit anywhere else.

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Link Drop

Have a link to submit and not sure where it should go? Put it here, please add a sentence that describes the link:

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Example

🔗https://url-goes-here.com

A brief description.

Coronavirus Economics Observatory

https://coronavirusandtheeconomy.com/

A collective initiative by the economic research community to answer questions from policy-makers and the public about the economics of the Covid-19 crisis and the recovery.

Rapid Manufacture Low Cost (RMLC)

🔗http://www.rmlc-visor.eu/

The Rapid Manufacture Low Cost (RMLC) Visor is a super simple visor that is extremely cheap, comfortable and easy to make and clean.

The COVID-19 Self-Management Study: Living With Chronic Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

🔗https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_af8ZJztS4PTS3el

Recruiting participants (adults age 50 and older in the United States) with chronic conditions

https://twitter.com/shift_org/status/1260657548782268416/photo/1

tayo.medupin@shiftdesign.org

Project by Shift and HomestartUK for new parents and babies during COVID-19.

Helpdesk / Feedback

What are you hoping to find in the handbook? Write below:

• Real-time statistics with graphs - infections, deaths etc...

See the Epidemiology section, above. Also, Infographics.

• I am organizing a mutual aid group, I am looking for resources

See the Tools for Volunteers & Mutual Aid section, above.

• I am trying to find advice on how an NGO working in agricultural development can contribute to the mitigation of COVID-19 (and its side effects)

• Looking for liferay developers

• Looking for best practice infection prevention and control for care homes and home-care agencies

• Looking for best practice on ensuring inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised communities in education programmes

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