COVID-19 Social APP

Idea below: Covid-19 Social APP: 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 it becomes available (eg antibody tests). Build a platform to help us manage the journey from crisis to control.

I believe we can create an APP 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 (including both objective tests and user input symptoms) to create a unifying element to keep users informed throughout the next few months of their risk, help nudge behaviour change and allow the Government and 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 and drive you, and your families, behaviour to manage the risk.

We could use the user inputs and data to calculate a 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 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.

I specialise in Design Thinking and conceptual/complex problem solving - joining the dots.

I’d like to draw this out, create a working prototype with a team and then hand it over to the tech companies to build and scale. Maybe Bill Gates Foundation, Google or Facebook... with trusted brands like NHS for UK. I am sure we can work together. I believe each country might look a little different - but a similar platform - because the users (all the population) will need to trust their data to be used in ways for the common good. Easier country by country at first.

Colin