Crisis Volunteering Nerds: Three Months After COVID-19 Hackathon #WirVsVirus

Haesler, Steffen; Schmid, Stefka; Reuter, Christian

doi:10.1145/3406324.3424584

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“…Through expert networks or software development communities [55], volunteers are also involved in creating new online applications, e.g. in the COVID-19 hackathon #WirVsVirus [20]. Challenges for volunteered and technical communities often include shortage of resources and volunteers, but also collaboration with formal organizations [55].…”

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Bridging from Crisis to Everyday Life – An Analysis of User Reviews of the Warning App NINA and the COVID-19 Regulation Apps CoroBuddy and DarfIchDas

Haunschild

Reuter

2021

Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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During a dynamic and protracted crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are continuously challenged with making decisions under uncertainty. In addition to evaluating the risk of their behaviors to themselves and others, citizens also have to consider the most current regulation, which often varies federally and locally and by incidence numbers. Few tools help to stay informed about the current rules. The state-run German multi-hazard warning app NINA incorporated a feature for COVID-19, while two apps, DarfIchDas and CoroBuddy, focus only on COVID-19 regulation and are privately run. To investigate users' expectations, perceived advantages, and gaps as well as the developers' challenges, we analyze recent app store reviews of the apps and developers' replies. We show that the warning app and the COVID-19 regulation apps are evaluated on different terms, that the correctness and portrayal of complex rules are the main challenges and that developers and editors are underusing users' potential for crowdsourcing. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing.

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Bridging from Crisis to Everyday Life – An Analysis of User Reviews of the Warning App NINA and the COVID-19 Regulation Apps CoroBuddy and DarfIchDas

Haunschild

Reuter

2021

Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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“…This could result in subsequent opportunities to work together with the MoH by applying the suggested insights in practice. While many other COVID-19-related hackathons had already taken place [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], this datathon is the first that was initiated by the government, engaged all sectors of society, and allowed the selected teams, in a controlled environment, to use up-to-date governmental data.…”

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Collaboration between Government and Research Community to Respond to COVID-19: Israel’s Case

Peleg

Reichman

Shachar

et al. 2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, Israel’s Ministry of Health (MoH) held a virtual datathon based on deidentified governmental data. Organized by a multidisciplinary committee, Israel’s research community was invited to offer insights to help solve COVID-19 policy challenges. The Datathon was designed to develop operationalizable data-driven models to address COVID-19 health policy challenges. Specific relevant challenges were defined and diverse, reliable, up-to-date, deidentified governmental datasets were extracted and tested. Secure remote-access research environments were established. Registration was open to all citizens. Around a third of the applicants were accepted, and they were teamed to balance areas of expertise and represent all sectors of the community. Anonymous surveys for participants and mentors were distributed to assess usefulness and points for improvement and retention for future datathons. The Datathon included 18 multidisciplinary teams, mentored by 20 data scientists, 6 epidemiologists, 5 presentation mentors, and 12 judges. The insights developed by the three winning teams are currently considered by the MoH as potential data science methods relevant for national policies. Based on participants’ feedback, the process for future data-driven regulatory responses for health crises was improved. Participants expressed increased trust in the MoH and readiness to work with the government on these or future projects.

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Collaborating in a Crisis: Perspectives on Trust and Technological Framework in Organising a COVID-19 Online Hackathon

Karhu

Karampela

Häkkilä

2022

Mensch Und Computer 2022

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Crisis Volunteering Nerds: Three Months After COVID-19 Hackathon #WirVsVirus

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Bridging from Crisis to Everyday Life – An Analysis of User Reviews of the Warning App NINA and the COVID-19 Regulation Apps CoroBuddy and DarfIchDas

Bridging from Crisis to Everyday Life – An Analysis of User Reviews of the Warning App NINA and the COVID-19 Regulation Apps CoroBuddy and DarfIchDas

Collaboration between Government and Research Community to Respond to COVID-19: Israel’s Case

Collaborating in a Crisis: Perspectives on Trust and Technological Framework in Organising a COVID-19 Online Hackathon

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