Collective Crisis Intelligence

How do we track who has the virus?

How do we predict how the virus will spread?

How do we provide accurate and reliable information to our communities?

How do we administer testing?

How do we direct the right people at the right times to hospitals and testing centers?

How do we expand our capacity to monitor who is sick?

How do we help the elderly and the homebound?

How do we provide economic assistance to those affected by business closures?

As the COVID-19 virus rapidly spreads to more than 150 countries on six continents, public institutions are straining to keep up.

To assist you in responding during this time of crisis, we have assembled this collection of coaching videos from those who have successfully responded to a crisis before by successfully using technology to engage with a larger “crowd” of volunteers.

In each mini-lecture those who have successfully learned how to mobilize groups of people online, present the basic concepts and tools to learn, analyze and implement a crowdsourced public response to crucial decision-making processes in a context of emergency. While the focus of this course is to inform the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope the lessons learned will also be applied to future disaster relief efforts and worst-case scenarios.

Matt Andrews, Faculty Director of Building State Capability and Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development at Harvard Kennedy School, United States
Peter Baeck, Co-Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta, United Kingdom
Sean Bonner, Global Director of Safecast, Japan
Peter Bragge, Director of Health Programs, BehaviourWorks Australia; Lead, Monash-McMaster Social Systems Evidence Collaboration, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia
Azby Brown, Safecast Lead Researcher, Japan
Bradley Busetto, Director, UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Singapore
Panthea Lee, Executive Director, Reboot, United States
Chelsey Lepage, Associate Director of Programs, Reboot, United States
Nashin Mahtani, Director, PetaBencana.id, Indonesia
Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London
Ali Nouri, President of the Federation of American Scientists, United States
Beth Simone Noveck, Director of The GovLab and Chief Innovation Officer, State of New Jersey, United States
Tolbert Nyenswah, Senior Research Associate in the department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Liberia
Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi, Kenya
Kyle Pennell, Solutions Engineer, CARTO, USA
Alex Pentland, Director, MIT Connection Science, USA
Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder & Head of Strategic Partnerships Boya Ltd, Co-Founder Ushahidi, BRCK, Kenya

Defining Actionable Problems

Matt Andrews

Three Day Evidence Review

Peter Bragge

Priorities for Collective Intelligence

Geoff Mulgan

Smarter Crowdsourcing

Beth Simone Noveck

Crowdfunding

Peter Baeck

Secondary Fall-Out

Azby Brown

Crowdsourced Surveillance

Tolbert Nyenswah

Crowdsourcing Data

Angela Oduor Lungati and Juliana Rotich

Mobilizing a Network

Sean Bonner

Chatbots and Social Media Strategies for Crisis

Nashin Mahtani

Who is most at Risk? Changes to the Organization that Need to be Made Now

Alex Pentland

Designing Collaborations for Urgent, Courageous Change

Panthea Lee and Chelsey Lepage

Crowdsourcing Scientific Expertise

Ali Nouri

Data Visualization and Mapping

Kyle Pennell

Innovation Challenges

Bradley Busetto

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