What’s New in Civic Tech: Sweeping COVID-19 Data Platform

Source: GovTech Published: February 25th, 2021

Civic technologists have a new sweeping COVID-19 data platform, which can be found at global.health.

To be more specific, the project is an open-access epidemiological platform that can be used to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases, a group that, of course, includes COVID-19. Currently, the platform features a data set that includes detailed information on more than 5 million anonymized cases from more than 100 countries. 

The website — which is described on its home page as “first of its kind, easy-to-use global data repository and visualization platform that enables open access to real-time epidemiological anonymized line-list data” — was created with support from the philanthropic organizations, The Rockefeller Foundation and Google.org. On the research end, contributions to the platform were made by some of the world’s leading institutions, including Oxford, Harvard, Boston Children’s Hospital, Georgetown and more. As noted here, the project grew out of a single spreadsheet initially.

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