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There are many problems caused by COVID-19. All projects need solve at least one of the problems. There are 6 main objectives for COVID-19 projects. The subpage of the learning resource is based on resources of a Hackathons[1]
Reduce spread
[edit | edit source]Risk Literacy
[edit | edit source]Increase knowledge and awareness (see Risk Literacy)
- Tracking
- Functions: Record -> Aggregate -> Visualize -> Data Analyze and Predict -> Warn -> High-level Predict -> Prepare
- Record
- Number of cases and their location (dead/confirmed/ tested/ suspicious/recovered)
- Movement profiles of the infected
- How: Record the movement profiles (for past 2 weeks). Release them when tested positive for COVID-19:
- An app that allows users to "log in" and "out" places automatically, when they enter/leave that place (using mobile devices)
- An app that uses barcode/bluetooth/NFC/WLAN to record all contacts within a certain range locally (using mobile devices), when confirmed , only release info to those contacted people.
- An app records transaction data/ contact history/ GPS info (from google/ telcos)
- Self-report status("unsafe"/"suspected corona" or "cold symptoms"/"cured")/locations/historical movement (note: this is related to "test". It can combine with a system deducing the percentage of infection.)
- Type:
- Voluntary/ compulsory
- Done by government (e.g. South Korea)/ by non-profit organizations
- Release the info to the public/ Only release it to friends/contacts
- Centralized/ non-centralized
- How: Record the movement profiles (for past 2 weeks). Release them when tested positive for COVID-19:
- Aggregate and Visualize
- Possible classification of data: (per county/ industry/ demographic group/ medical personnel etc)
- Output Type:
- A fast/ encrypted (or not)/ machine-readable report/ database
- A hot spot/ real time map
- Graphs
- API
- Data Analyze and Predict:
- What to achieve: deduce possible disease cluster/ infection chain/ trend/ estimated unreported cases
- How: AI / Other Machine Learning models/ Traditional statistical models/ SIR model
- Sources of data: info from telcos/ data about people with cold symptoms/ Number of cases/ Movement profile etc
- Visualization with extrapolation of future possible results (pessimistic/ optimistic)
- Warn:
- Using SMS to inform people who have contacted with the infected/ or the people nearby
- Example: IBM Plague Tracker/ MS Geolife GPS trajectories Data Set
- Increase Awareness
- Info that can be shared:
- Facts about the disease (fight fake news): symptoms/ pathological mechanism/ test procedure/ treatment/ prevention method/ correct methods to use medical supplies...etc
- Contact details (hospitals/ government/ companies/ emergency/ foreign affairs)
- Public strategies with reasons (shared by governments)
- New rules of conduct (for different groups: culture/religion/age/professions/language)
- News
- Possible negative or positive predictions
- Criteria for transferring knowledge: quickly/clearly/simple/up-to-date
- Different methods for transferring knowledge:
- Entertainment: Music videos(Vietnam)/ online games/ virtual quizzes (can form groups)/ Websites collecting memes, jokes and drawings about COVID-19 (e.g. https://www.corolores.com/index.php/category/home-office/)
- Online platform:
- A platform sharing links/videos/news/facts -> everyone has a list of selected items to share
- A crowdsourcing platform
- Platforms that answer common questions by professionals.
- A forum where ppl can ask questions related to COVID-19 -> can vote up,down/ comment;
- Or the questions can be obtained from Google or news publishers (from Google Search Console)
- real-time communication
- A hotline/ volunteer calls
- An interactive chatbot providing all info about COVID-19 (can use AI and IVR system) (e.g. IBM Watson Assistant)
- Other methods:
- A simulation showing how many ppl may be infected by you if you leave the home with COVID-19
- Influencers/ local companies
- Fight fake news
- A plug-in/ app/ bot for fact-checking using simple words, possibly using AI (e.g. www.politifact.com/ BotSentinel)
- Fake news filter (e.g. Facebook)
- Guidelines for how to share info on social media (e.g.https://www.whatsapp.com/coronavirus)
- Transfer important info to the vulnerable (old/ ill/ rural)
- Problem: Many ppl don't have digital life
- Solution: TV/ paper/ hotline/ SMS/ easy to use software
- Problem: Identify/ Inform ppl they are vulnerable
- Solution: Insurance companies can use their data to sms/email those vulnerable ppl
- Problem: Many ppl don't have digital life
- Info that can be shared:
Infection Control
[edit | edit source]The main goal for infection control is to flatten the curve.
- Social Distancing
- Separate infected and non-infected people in a shared flat
- Solution: Exchange flats for a short term, so that the infected can live in the same place
- Change original behavioral patterns
- An app that asks questions/ monitors GPS -> help ppl find their behavioral weakness and room for improvement
- Campaigns and daily challenges (e.g. record and share videos/ through social networks/ submitted via the app) (e.g. We the people for the Global Goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqVmvMCmp0Happy)
- A system that divides ppl into 2 groups: those must work outside/ should not go out
- Give points/goodies to them if they do as expected
- Use GPS to measure distance between ppl
- Possibly gamify the app (e.g. Pokemon Go)
- Make indoor activities interesting
- An interesting game introducing COVID-19 (e.g. Plague-Inc) (note: related to "Increase Awareness"-> "Entertainment")
- Bringing together ppl with similar interest (note: related to "mental health")
- Indoor sports (note: related to "physical health")
- Problem: How ppl under quarantine/ at risk get goods
- Solution: A food delivery system/ mutual aid group that prevent infection
- Problem: Mental problem due to loneliness
- Problem: If there are curfews, how can a person be temporarily authorized to leave home to provide for others
- Solution: A mobile/ web app for vulnerable ppl to appoint their helpers
- Separate infected and non-infected people in a shared flat
- Personal Hygiene
- knowledge about masks (note: related to "medical equipment")
- Wear masks/ wash hands
- Public Hygiene
- Identify hygiene traps that may increase infection rate
- Solution: A platform where we can upload pictures and descriptions about areas of hygiene traps
- Disinfect infectious contact points (e.g. supermarkets/hospitals/delivering parcels...)
- Identify hygiene traps that may increase infection rate
- Identify who is recovered and who is infected (note: related to "test")
- Why: the recovered can contact the risky/ move around freely
- How:
- An automated digital triage (chatbot, SMS-bot, telephone system with question tree) to select suspected cases
- Mass testing
- Decision making
- Use big data to deduce the effectiveness/ economic impact of different preventive measures used by different regions
- A platform where everyone/companies can update their current/estimated economic loss
- An AI based system to give advice for functioning of electricity/ water/ transport/ food /security/health care etc
- Make timely plans with both global and local insights
Maintain medical services
[edit | edit source]Medical equipment and facilities
[edit | edit source]Resource Management
[edit | edit source]- Stakeholders: authorities, associations, experts, service providers, hospitals
- Resources/Info Type (available and used):
- Medical equipment: gloves, masks, protective gowns, goggles, disinfectants, test toolkits, ventilators
- Medical Facilities: beds, patients transportation
- Medical Staff: doctors (including reservists, those for consulting firms), nurses, helpers
- Patients: (predicted) suspected, confirmed, ICU cases
- Finance
- Problem:
- Too many (suspected) patients waiting for test and treatment
- Insufficient medical resources
- Bad medical resource allocation
- Data protection
- Solution Workflow: Communicate -> Summarize -> Analyze and Prioritize -> Coordinate/ Use the data
- Communicate
- A common communication network for all stakeholders
- A special communication tool for medical staff/ stations, sharing picture/videos/ voice messages/lab data securely (e.g. Join)
- A communication method for the general public to contact different stakeholders easily
- Summarize
- What: all hospitals,manufacturers resource and manpower/ patients' info
- Input: Google sheet/ website form/ uploaded by appointed helpers
- Output: Database/ website/ app/ map
- Type:
- Confidential Version: for hospitals' use, may contain patients' info or other private data
- Public Version: For the general public/ outsiders to provide help
- Analyze and Prioritize
- How: AI/ resource managers
- Coordinate
- Exchange/ allocation of Resources (between different health sectors/ donation from the public)
- Voluntary help
- A web showing which hospitals lack resources and how volunteers can help (e.g. donations)
- Coordination of production
- Logistics
- Solution: A real-time software that coordinate production and logistics orders -> a workflow editor that can triggers an order for different material and corresponding transport/ product (e.g. system used by Siemens, Porsche)
- Factories can convert their production to medical supplies (note: related to "economy")
- Problem: lack of medical knowledge about self-production of medical supplies
- Solution: A website/ database/ handbook to share the correct knowledge about self-producing
- Problem: Bottleneck in production of medical supplies due to lack of resources from abroad
- Logistics
- Patients distribution
- An app advising patients where they should go
- It can also search for free beds/clinic within a radius
- An app advising patients where they should go
- Systems in other industry that can be used
- Bed capacity: hotel booking system
- patients transport: carpooling and fleet management systems (Uber, Lyft, Blacklane, Talixo, MyTaxi and co)
- Inventory tracking system
- Financial support
Specific Medical Supplies
[edit | edit source]- Test
- Problem: Testing procedure takes too much time
- Lengthy phone calls to determine whether needed to be tested
- Too many people taking tests
- Too many people calling hotlines
- Too many forms for doctors to fill in
- Solution: Centralized data system/ app that fill in most of the info from health insurance card
- Solution Workflow:
- Preprocess (e.g. CovApp https://covapp.charite.de/)
- Asking necessary questions for testing (a platform/app):
- Record of cough, temperature, symptoms, travel, risk group, region, contact list, electronic stethoscope
- Determine riskiness: Using AI/ helpers/ simple algorithms to estimate a probability of infection
- Give recommendations
- Prioritize test lists
- Asking necessary questions for testing (a platform/app):
- Test procedure
- Inform place,date,time of the test quickly
- Conduct tests:
- Problem: Cross-infection during/before testing (note: solutions are all for swab test)
- Solution: At-home test
- Swab delivery system: can be collected by special mail/ local collection spots
- QR code system for identifying samples (for convenient management for labs too)
- Solution: Test booth
- Solution: An app link the potentially infected to special ambulances (mobile diagnostic centers)-> a test swab is taken at front door
- Inform all stakeholder of results
- Instruction and info for quarantine if test is positive
- Monitor those suspicious but not yet tested positive
- An diary app recording symptoms everyday (using standardized questions) -> can link to hospital system if suspicious/ severe
- Other side impacts (note: related to "tracking"):
- Big data analysis for analysing regional outbreak/ research (e.g. "real-time early warning system" for the virus used in Taiwan)
- Preprocess (e.g. CovApp https://covapp.charite.de/)
- Problem: A lot of ppl not tested
- Solution: Mass testing by volunteers using PCR method
- Problem: Not enough test
- Problem: Testing procedure takes too much time
- Ventilators
- Solution: 3D-printed open source ventilators
- Solution: Coordinate platform for designing ventilators: e.g. https://www.replacing-luck.de/doku.php
- Masks and Gloves
- Solution: Sewing masks for public use (may find sewing community on social media)
- Solution: A central platform that organizes the postal dispatch of masks and gloves
- Hand Sanitizers
- Solution: small distillers/ brewery companies
- Protective gowns
- Emergency Replacement: Raincoat
- Mobile rescue package for emergency situation
- With an instructional app (e.g. https://mobilizerescue.com/the-technology)
Medical staff and services
[edit | edit source]- Shortage of manpower
- Problem: Too many ppl ask doctors for knowledge about COVID-19
- Solution: Medical chatbots (note: related to "Increase awareness")
- Problem: How to provide regular/COVID-19 medical care at home
- Solution: An app that digitalizes medical treatment and drug procurement: appointment/ consultation/ therapy sessions/ prescription/ order at the pharmacy/ payment -> with a drug delivery system to vicinity (the delivery system can combine with food/goods delivery)
- Problem: Too many ppl ask doctors for knowledge about COVID-19
- Problem: How to provide vaccination
- Solution: Digital registration
- Problem: Medical staff overwork
- Solution: A platform where medical staff can register and indicate what things others can help (e.g. shopping)
- Problem: Physical/psychological/social/economic problems for medical staff
- Voluntary work (for hospitals)
- Provide non-professional services for hospitals:
- Assistance with food distribution/ cleaning aids/ medicine transports/ patient transports (ambulance replacement)/ guard service
- Help provide medical service:
- Learning basics -> on-call/ assistant personnel for clinics
- A registration platform for those with medical competences/ knowledge but not qualified/ work as medics (e.g. medical students)
- With a simple qualification/certificate verification process
- Provide non-professional services for hospitals:
- Problem: How to provide vaccination
- Problem: cross-infection at waiting room (note: related to "test"
- Solution: digital-registration
- Problem: Administration of tested/quarantined/ suspected cases within a community
- Solution: A database recording aftercare phone calls/ details of further treatment
Research for Treatment and Test
[edit | edit source]- Test:
- Use AI to analyze lung image
- Treatment
- A big database using AI to identify effectiveness of new treatment methods
- Legal issues
- Simplify vaccine/ treatment approval process
Terminal care
[edit | edit source]- Digital/ phone calls (to family members)
Maintain people's mental and physical health
[edit | edit source]Mental health
[edit | edit source]All emotions are interrelated.
- Reason: unemployment/ food shortage /restriction of freedom/ Isolation/ health condition/ death toll
- Problem: Loneliness (especially for nursing home residents)
- Chatting
- Method: hotline/ Whatsapp/ telegram/ online/ letters (pen friends)
- How: random chat/ normal chat/ (emergency) counselling/ chat room/ neighbourhood help
- Type: anonymous or not
- Example: "the swedish number" (https://www.theswedishnumber.com/
- Online/ Virtual platforms (note: also related to "Sadness", "Boredom")
- virtual concerts/ yoga courses/ computer games/ DIY instructions (cooking, building, learning, Playing, thinking)/ festivals/ conferences
- For virtual concert: ppl can send a piece of music recorded live
- A digital framework for family conversation
- May use virtual reality of familiar places (e.g. home)-> using 360 degree cameras
- virtual concerts/ yoga courses/ computer games/ DIY instructions (cooking, building, learning, Playing, thinking)/ festivals/ conferences
- Chatting
- Problem: Sadness and Fear
- Media (online or magazines) that only have positive news about COVID-19
- Lennon walls and stickers on walls to spread positive info (e.g. HK democratic movement)
- Balcony singing (e.g. Italy)
- Any cheerful and entertaining content
- Problem: Anxiety
- Solution: Breathing exercises/ meditation
- Problem: Boredom
- A platform teaching ppl how to learn new hobbies/ transform old hobbies into corona-safe
- Problem: We might not know if ppl around us are distressed
- Solution: Mood trackers
- Problem: Disputes and conflicts
- Solution: A platform/online training/webinar solving conflicts/disputes/fear
- Professional treatment for mental problems
- What to provide: psychoeducation/ stress management/ emotion regulation/ sleep training
- Solution: A secured platform providing affordable/free coaching
- Who can register as healers: social work/ occupational therapists/ psychologists/ recovery companions/ peer counselors/ psychological healers
- Solution: An (AI-based) app/ website to provide understandable and entertaining psychological methods
- Website (e.g. www.info-daretocare.de)
- AI-based apps (e.g. Moodpath, Selfapy)
Physical health
[edit | edit source]- Sports: indoor sports
- Help the weak
- Ppl with chronic illess
- Sol: A virtual place for ppl to share info (note: can be combined)
- Ppl with mental illness (note: related to "mental")
- Sol: Matching helpers nearby with those with mental illness.
- Domestic violence
- The old
- Problem: they may have no cell phone/ smart phone
- Solution: provide local help regarding communication
- Solution: Get data from residents' registration office (privacy?)
- Problem: they need help during the crisis
- Solution: Neighbourhood help applications/ with automatic telephone answering machine via the Twilio API
- Explanation: multiple function: help with shopping/ getting goods, help with the household (taking out the garbage) or just a nice phone call
- Explanation: hotline with speech synthesis, basically act like siri-> auto-recording of orders
- Explanation: remote call center with volunteers
- Explanation: record time slots/ info/ region/ shopping list/ trace the purchase by photos
- Explanation: No contact when delivery goods
- Problem: payment (paypal?)
- Solution: Neighbourhood help applications/ with automatic telephone answering machine via the Twilio API
- Problem: Old ppl's homes have introduced a ban on visitors (note: also related to "mental")
- Sol: telephone/digital communication
- Problem: they may have no cell phone/ smart phone
- Childcare
- Problem: Youth welfare is low
- Sol: New types of low-threshold/"just-in-time"/face-to-face digital counseling service.
- Problem: No schools -> look for children 24 hrs at home
- Sol: Interactive learning platform -> children can ask ppl (higher grades/tutors/ teachers) questions with skype
- Sol: Free Internet/ used discarded laptops for those don't have the equipment
- Sol: Digital baby sitting-> help stop too-borderline content/ explain/ give parents feed back when children surf the net and play in online playgroups.
- Sol: audio books for children/ read them live
- Sol: A calendar with many daily challenges so that kids will not feel bored
- Problem: Children cannot play outside
- Sol: Table tennis at home/ an online platform coordinate sponsors to provide table tennis
- Problem: Parents don't know what to do -> mental health
- Sol:A platform for parents to share and support each other/ provide tips, time routine/activities/games/ educational methods/ recommendation from pediatricians and family therapists and employers -> (e.g. www.easyfam.com ?)
- Sol: A recommended daily routine list for children
- Problem: Separated parents
- Sol: Virtual mediators-> help parents make arrangements for children. E.g. CoParenter in USA
- Problem: Youth welfare is low
- Homeless/ refugees
- Deaf or insufficient language ppl
- Problem: may easy believe in fake news/ follow the current situation
- Problem: How to contact medical staff
- Solution: video system with sign language?
- Problem: International colleague/students
- Sol: Place them in a shared apartment complex
- Sol: A multi-language hotline/ website for important news (same class as "awareness")
- Sol: A translation service (by AI or helpers) for emergency contact with others
- Ppl living abroad
- Insufficient embassies and consulates general
- Contact persons at the embassy in case of emergency- Procedure in case of suspicion or illness in nCoV- Hospitals and outpatient clinics that can test for nCoV and treat it if necessary (with adequate health standards)- Risk assessment of the Foreign Office for individual countries- Evacuation plans and information on local travel regulations- Local regulations for quarantine measures- Prevention measures and behaviour during quarantine measures (especially for families)- Information on health insurance etc (case.428)
- Sol: A mailing list to all ppl working abroad
- Sol: In emergency situation-> a direct contact with embassy or doctors
- Insufficient embassies and consulates general
- Ppl with chronic illess
Pets
[edit | edit source]Help economy
[edit | edit source]Affected industry
[edit | edit source]catering
[edit | edit source]- takeaway
- donate: prepare meals and deliver them to the needy people
- Solution: A platform receiving donations and give out dishes at a standard price (especially to those in quarantine)
- virtual restaurants/ virtual coffee, beer
- be able to order a digital drink
- talk via video calls, online chat
- the restaurants are verified with map/restaurant association
Culture/ Art offers
[edit | edit source]- Problem: many events are cancelled
- Solutions:
- Introduction: An online event database for all culture streaming offers
- Paid events:
- Paid access to online concert
- Online exhibition with entrance fee/ introduction videos -> visitors' questions can be answered by artists/ visitors can buy things
- Online platform with donation functions
- A digital place to share with friends about art and culture
- Solutions:
Taxi/ trade/ tourism/ travel
[edit | edit source]- (Using mutual aid app) free capacity for transportation for shopping / vulnerable people / quarantined ppl/ online delivery
Agriculture
[edit | edit source]- A general Solution: Simplify the farming process
- Problem: Lack of helpers/ seasonal workers
- Bad Impact: No collection of milk/ vegetables/ farming
- Solutions: App/ platform/ social media for coordination and hiring (short-term contract) -> farmers mutual help/ help from volunteers/ hire unemployed (note: related to "shop" and "unemployment")
- With search function/ description/ calendar function
- Problem: Many veg and fruits will be rotten very fast if not deliver in time
- Solutions: Online fast order system
- Other Problems:
- Shortage of feed due to possible bans on importing
- Food supply/ Energy supply due to biogas
- animal welfare
Supermarkets/ shops / lack of resources
[edit | edit source]- Different aspects: Hygiene/ Advertisement/ Finance/ Business/ Lack of Labour/ Lack of resources <-> Hamster purchases
- General Solution: A map/ platform showing all the (local) shops, with the following functions
- Info Shown:
- Shops' menu/ phone number/ location/ capacity/ category
- Whether/ when shops are full/ open or close -> recommend ppl where to buy
- Analyzing WLAN and Bluetooth signals from nearby devices (e.g. HEAG Mobilo www.heagmobilo.de)
- Inventory status (whether certain goods are available)
- Authentication for shops
- Direct communication with sellers
- using personal/partly automated telephone/app
- Finance support: donation, lend money to sellers
- A long-term model like Patreon
- May use a block-chain/ crowdfunding/ P2P leading/ solidarity fund
- Transaction
- buying gift cards/vouchers for later service/ (special) goods
- Protection for customers: Government guarantee protecting against the event of bankruptcy
- Advantage: We can send this personalized gift cards to others (note: related to "isolation and loneliness")
- online shopping
- How to get goods: delivery service/ self-fetching
- How to pack goods: stuff put in hygienic containers
- How to pick up: book pick-up date (use QR code)
- How to pay: QR code/ digital payment
- How to deliver goods:
- Decentralized/ centralized(delivery once a day using a central coordinate system)
- Delivery method: voluntary/ taxi-transformed system/ logistic company/ a system like Uber
- special shopping time slots
- Type 1: different time slots for different risk groups (UK) (e.g. https://www.transporeon.com/en/products/management/time-slot-management/)
- Type 2: book shopping time slots (May use QR code)
- Type 2.1: only those booked are allowed to enter
- Type 2.2: those booked are allowed to queue for a special fast queue
- Special arrangement for those in need
- Possible pre-ordering for ppl with "certificates" proving they have a special need (note: related to "lack of resources")
- buying gift cards/vouchers for later service/ (special) goods
- Help buyers (note: related to "Hygiene" as well)
- Mutual aid: allows ppl to buy goods for others
- Type 1: Ppl can order goods from who is shopping nearby (like Uber, with a fee)
- Type 2: Form a group -> establish a common shopping list -> buy things for others in the group
- A guide/ personalized checklist for ppl: what they need to buy/keep in stock
- Reminded by their app when/where their need is available
- Mutual aid: allows ppl to buy goods for others
- Info Shown:
- Hygiene
- Shops' perspective
- Management the number of clients in shops
- Keeping physical distance between clients and employees
- Protection for employees (e.g. masks and gloves)
- Prepare pre-filled shopping bags for fast buying (e.g. "Vegetable" bag contains vegetables)
- Shops' perspective
- Finance
- Solution: A program where big online shops agree to give some money they earn to small shops chosen by customers
- Advertisement
- Solution: Can use automated SMS/ interactive map to create advertisements for local shops (note: what if ppl don't want them)
- Lack of Labour
- Problem: Hotlines overwhelmed by customer concerns
- Solution: Automated AI support: recording in digital form/ cleansing private info/ scanning and clustering to create an organization-specific Corona structure/ know the main topics and problems customers have / choose the standard solution to them/ evaluation of the response
- Problem: Hotlines overwhelmed by customer concerns
- Lack of resources
- Logistics
- Problem: ppl like canned food, but not vegetables
- Solution: cookbook with 60-80 recipes based on basic ingredients
- Solution: turn fresh vegetables into canned food
- Solution: An app for efficient rationing in the region-> match essential demand with supply, using a centralized supply system
- Solution: A platform for exchange/donate/borrowing resources and labour (note: related to "Unemployment")
- Possible to use: Open-source based block-chain or distributed ledge technology (decentralized and transparant)
- Big online shop/platform
- They benefit from this COVID-19 (e.g. Amazon) -> they charge high fees
Private media
[edit | edit source]Bank
[edit | edit source]- Digital/ partially automated processes (for the following processes)
- processing financing applications
- official procedures
- Online banking
Small economic units
[edit | edit source]- Definition: traders/ producers/ craftsmen/ caretakers/ logisticians/ self-employed persons/ Start-ups and SMEs etc
- Finance:
- Problem: Small companies have no mature financial system/ CFO
- Solution: A CFO on demand platform
- What to provide: practices/tools/workflows/templates /advice
- About what: Cash Flow management/ KPI/ financial reports/ Virtual conferences/ Expert surveys/ Courses and learning materials/ tool vendors/ Virtual niche events
- Solution: A CFO on demand platform
- Problem: Small companies may have greater liquidity problem
- Solution: Financial buffer/ emergency fund
- Problem: Small companies have no mature financial system/ CFO
- Law (low cost):
- Problem: Law issues about short-time work/child care/ holidays/dismissals/wage claims
- Solution: Student legal advice
- Problem: Law issues about short-time work/child care/ holidays/dismissals/wage claims
- A general platform:
- Solution: A platform for entrepreneurs/ self-employed ppl to post a short message talking about their challenge -> can be helped in different ways (donations/ discussion/ opinions)
- Funding: Business angel networks/ crowd funding/ micro-credits
Normal business
[edit | edit source]- Digital/ Innovative Solutions (low-threshold and scalable):
- Team platform (e.g. MS Team or similar)
- A free/digital marketplace where companies can easily set up their business (e.g. Digital Mall)
- Innovative logistics approaches (e.g. open parcel shops)
- EU corona response initiative
- Virtual trade fair
- Finance:
- Fintecs
- Information platforms (bundling/ filtering/ processing many econ and financial info)
- Problem: Insolvency and liquidity problem
- Home Office
- Problem: no fast verbal communication
- Solution: establish a company level chat facilities with security in mind (e.g. Virtual project room)
- Problem: How to reorganize and redesign processes and working methods -> work effectively
- Problem: Digital administration
- Solution: To develop simple/ user-friendly and safe solutions for PCs to be switched on remotely
- Problem: There is a mass of unused professional equipment due to office work
- Solution: they can be lend to others/ receive cashless payment
- Problem: Lack of knowledge
- Solution: A platform finding existing tools,solutions/providing guidelines for office work
- Problem: no fast verbal communication
Unemployment
[edit | edit source]- Industries that lack labour: supermarkets, harvesting, nursing, delivery services, people who shop for others, web designers, etc
- Solution: An online platform matching those need to work and those need labour (note: related to "agriculture")
- Those need to work: The unemployed/ students looking for part-time job/ idle employees not yet fired
- Optional solution: Temporary loaning employees between companies
- Info provided:
- skill/ exp/ possible time frame/ region matching
- Characteristics of the jobs provided:
- Uncomplicated/ location-oriented (like Uber)
- Templates/ recommendations provided:
- legal advice/ contract, regulation, insurance framework template
- How to introduce the new job:
- Interdisciplinary mentoring, introduction videos for career changers
- Problem: Temporary employees may not be protected properly-> they are not a member of trade union/ lack of social security/ safety
Financial request/ support
[edit | edit source]- Apply for government financial aid/ equity capital/ loan
- Solution Flow: Summarize information -> recommendation -> simplify and automation
- Summarize information
- Solution: bundle all information offers (e.g. info about law/ possible reconstruction ...)
- Recommendation
- Solution: A platform for procurement of equity capital/ loan (similar to online dating platforms)
- Problem: It is unclear which aid/ loan program is suitable
- Solution: A digital/ standardized/ AI system to find out which funding programmes are suitable
- Simplify and automation
- Problem: the application system for financial aid/ loan is too complex (too many forms)
- Solution: A simple digital platform for short-time work benefits
- Solution: Semi-auto entering info and doc/sending the applications/ process cases/ digital payment
- Problem: the application system for financial aid/ loan is too complex (too many forms)
- Directly help those who need money
- Solution: Financial support groups (redistribution of income among groups)(note: this looks like communism)
- A platform for asking for help (e.g. Share the meal)
- Problem: possible abuse
Digital Economy
[edit | edit source]- digital donation/ payment/ micro-investment/ contract
- Usage of blockchain
- Smart contract
- Usage of cryptocurrency
Chances and risks of globalization and internationalization
[edit | edit source]Maintain societal function
[edit | edit source]- Education
- e-learning platform
- virtual classroom
- Government Operation
- Communication between social groups
- Crisis management
- Public administration
- Culture/ Art offers (note: solutions already shown in "economy" section)
- Border control
- Problem: Congestion at border (e.g. trucks) -> delivery bottleneck -> spoiled good
- Solution: QR code for police: Auto-fill some info for online questionnaire/ avoid double check
- Solution: Automated entry/exit control system, with license plate readers
- Problem: Congestion at border (e.g. trucks) -> delivery bottleneck -> spoiled good
- Data and cyber security
- Increase awareness for companies
- Solution: A video campaign shows the biggest mistakes made by home office and simulates popular cyber attack
- Solution: A blacklist including fake article websites/apps
- Increase awareness for companies
- Social welfare system
- Problem: drop in donation for charity
- Problem: Social workers hard to meet those need help
- Solution: Video chat
- Food banks
- Problem: lack resources
- Sol: An online food donation platform
- Problem: difficult to distribute rations in food banks
- Sol: helpers help delivery food
- Problem: lack resources
- Religion
- Problem: No church service or gathering
- Bad Impact: Mental problem
- Solution: Make it digital, while keeping the prayer format close to the original version
- Solution: Let believers to communicate with each other -> do not feel lonely
- Problem: No church service or gathering
Support other projects
[edit | edit source]- Allocation of helpers and resources
- Think from different perspectives: companies/ volunteers/ those need help/ those with extra resources
- Sol: Distribution of tokens for projects and supporters -> provide evidence of value -> tokens can be used as medium of exchange in P2P marketplaces or discounts
- Sol: A (real-time) platform for finding and registering volunteers/ special skills are recorded and verified
- Funding
- Micro-donation
- Solution: donation campaign->customers round up their purchase (e.g. Germany rounds up" donation campaign: http://www.deutschland-rundet-auf.de)
- Sol: online shopping -> advertising commissions are generated via so-called affiliate marketing
- Problem: not transparent
- Sol: transparent distribution of donations (using bitcoins, e.g. https://github.com/protontypes/openselery)
- Reimbursement of travel expenses
- Micro-donation
- Advertising
- A common platform for all projects
- A centralized database (proper visualization)
- real-time
- Telecommunication providers have to provide movement profiles
- Health authorities have to report their case numbers centrally
- Hospitals report their capacity in real time/ length of stay
- Retail sales
- Anonymous patient data
- Num of death/ excess mortality cases (with or without acute respiratory disease, with or without COVID-19 detected)
- Efficient information transfer
- Coordination between service provides and regional coordination
- Ideas and knowledge (proper visualization)
- A platform to exchange ideas and experiences (e.g. for different projects) ->network the knowledge
Other
[edit | edit source]- List of communication methods: telephone, website, chat bots, messenger apps and language assistance systems such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, etc.
- Things ppl should know: Rules of conduct for social contacts/ Hygiene rules (e.g. door handles/ phones) /Own assessment of whether belongs to the risk group/ Which authorities are responsible/ Travel rules
- Standardization of projects (for ventilators): goals/non-goals/budget/laws / Secures stored evidence/concepts/ guidelines/ work instruction procedures via on/offline tooling provides a comprehensive structure/ guidance for implementation as well as a highly available and redundant platform to implement an up-to-date/ emergency preparedness management/ As well as a very good integration and digitalization of necessary documentation -> (Case.224)
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Airtable of COVID-19 Solutions (2020) Collaborative Work - Source: one Airtable: https://airtable.com/shrPm5L5I76Djdu9B/tbl6jJwlaKbTLfkv3/viwo42vVwKMNP5GYT?blocks=bipjdZOhKwkQnH1tV - (accessed 2020/03/30)