Covid-19 My Social Living APP: HANDSHAKES I believe one of the most powerful tools against Covid-19 could be using technology to help us; understand our individual behaviours, our collective behaviours and confirm our approach with more data as, and when, it becomes available (eg anti-body tests).
Through understanding how many HANDSHAKES we are from infection What would we voluntarily do to help ensure we, and out loved ones, stay healthy whilst helping the common cause?
I believe we can create an APP: a platform to help us manage the journey from CRISIS to CONTROL.
- allowing users to input their behaviours and any symptoms
- leveraging social platforms (Facebook, Twitter etc) with tech firm data (GPS, proximity, user profiles) and integrate with transport system data (Citymapper, Google maps, Uber etc) plus Healthcare data (Covid-19 objective tests and case statistics)
- to create a unifying element to keep users both informed throughout the next few months; of their risk, provide timely nudges to help with behaviour change and allow the coordination of Health System to see real-time the effects and how nudges and policies are working.
Whilst also integrating the idea of 6-degrees of separation for social networks to understand how close the pandemic risk is coming to your close inner circle, (how many HANDSHAKES are you and your loved ones from infection?); and help you, and your families, change behaviour to manage risk. Visualize this with real-time graphics like an ocean moving in and out with the tides
We could use the user inputs and data to calculate your risk score and also a social conscious score - to help recommend and nudge further behaviour change to increase these. For example you would want those you share a home with to take the same levels of precaution as yourself. Could also be used to plan decisions... by forecasting the effect of a particular decision; eg should I visit a parent.
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