# COVID-19/Summary of All COVID-19 Projects

There are many problems caused by COVID-19. All projects need solve at least one of the problems. There are 6 main objectives for COVID-19 projects. The subpage of the learning resource is based on resources of a Hackathons

## Reduce spread
### Risk Literacy

Increase knowledge and awareness (see Risk Literacy)
* Tracking
** Functions: Record -> Aggregate -> Visualize -> Data Analyze and Predict -> Warn -> High-level Predict -> Prepare
** Record
*** Number of cases and their location (dead/confirmed/ tested/ suspicious/recovered)
*** Movement profiles of the infected
**** How: Record the movement profiles (for past 2 weeks). Release them when tested positive for COVID-19:
***** An app that allows users to "log in" and "out" places automatically, when they enter/leave that place (using mobile devices)
***** An app that uses barcode/bluetooth/NFC/WLAN to record all contacts within a certain range locally (using mobile devices), when confirmed , only release info to those contacted people.
***** An app records transaction data/ contact history/ GPS info (from google/ telcos)
***** Self-report status("unsafe"/"suspected corona" or "cold symptoms"/"cured")/locations/historical movement (note: this is related to "test". It can combine with a system deducing the percentage of infection.)
**** Type:
***** Voluntary/ compulsory
***** Done by government (e.g. South Korea)/ by non-profit organizations
***** Release the info to the public/ Only release it to friends/contacts
***** Centralized/ non-centralized
** Aggregate and Visualize
*** Possible classification of data: (per county/ industry/ demographic group/ medical personnel etc)
*** Output Type:
**** A fast/ encrypted (or not)/ machine-readable report/ database
**** A hot spot/ real time map
**** Graphs
**** API
** Data Analyze and Predict:
*** What to achieve: deduce possible disease cluster/ infection chain/ trend/ estimated unreported cases
*** How: AI / Other Machine Learning models/ Traditional statistical models/ SIR model
*** Sources of data: info from telcos/ data about people with cold symptoms/ Number of cases/ Movement profile etc
*** Visualization with extrapolation of future possible results (pessimistic/ optimistic)
** Warn:
*** Using SMS to inform people who have contacted with the infected/ or the people nearby
** Example: IBM Plague Tracker/ MS Geolife GPS trajectories Data Set
* Increase Awareness
** Info that can be shared:
*** Facts about the disease (fight fake news): symptoms/ pathological mechanism/ test procedure/ treatment/ prevention method/ correct methods to use medical supplies...etc
*** Contact details (hospitals/ government/ companies/ emergency/ foreign affairs)
*** Public strategies with reasons (shared by governments)
*** New rules of conduct (for different groups: culture/religion/age/professions/language)
*** News
*** Possible negative or positive predictions
** Criteria for transferring knowledge: quickly/clearly/simple/up-to-date
** Different methods for transferring knowledge:
*** Entertainment: Music videos(Vietnam)/ online games/ virtual quizzes (can form groups)/ Websites collecting memes, jokes and drawings about COVID-19 (e.g. https://www.corolores.com/index.php/category/home-office/)
*** Online platform:
**** A platform sharing links/videos/news/facts -> everyone has a list of selected items to share
**** A crowdsourcing platform
**** Platforms that answer common questions by professionals.
***** A forum where ppl can ask questions related to COVID-19 -> can vote up,down/ comment;
***** Or the questions can be obtained from Google or news publishers (from Google Search Console)
*** real-time communication
**** A hotline/ volunteer calls
**** An interactive chatbot providing all info about COVID-19 (can use AI and IVR system) (e.g. IBM Watson Assistant)
*** Other methods:
**** A simulation showing how many ppl may be infected by you if you leave the home with COVID-19
**** Influencers/ local companies
*** Fight fake news
**** A plug-in/ app/ bot for fact-checking using simple words, possibly using AI (e.g. www.politifact.com/ BotSentinel)
**** Fake news filter (e.g. Facebook)
**** Guidelines for how to share info on social media (e.g.https://www.whatsapp.com/coronavirus)
*** Transfer important info to the vulnerable (old/ ill/ rural)
**** Problem: Many ppl don't have digital life
***** Solution: TV/ paper/ hotline/ SMS/ easy to use software
**** Problem: Identify/ Inform ppl they are vulnerable
***** Solution: Insurance companies can use their data to sms/email those vulnerable ppl

### Infection Control

The main goal for infection control is to flatten the curve.
* Social Distancing
** Separate infected and non-infected people in a shared flat
*** Solution: Exchange flats for a short term, so that the infected can live in the same place
** Change original behavioral patterns
*** An app that asks questions/ monitors GPS -> help ppl find their behavioral weakness and room for improvement
*** Campaigns and daily challenges (e.g. record and share videos/ through social networks/ submitted via the app) (e.g. We the people for the Global Goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpqVmvMCmp0Happy)
*** A system that divides ppl into 2 groups: those must work outside/ should not go out
**** Give points/goodies to them if they do as expected
**** Use GPS to measure distance between ppl
**** Possibly gamify the app (e.g. Pokemon Go)
*** Make indoor activities interesting
**** An interesting game introducing COVID-19 (e.g. Plague-Inc) (note: related to "Increase Awareness"-> "Entertainment")
**** Bringing together ppl with similar interest (note: related to "mental health")
**** Indoor sports (note: related to "physical health")
** Problem: How ppl under quarantine/ at risk get goods
*** Solution: A food delivery system/ mutual aid group that prevent infection
** Problem: Mental problem due to loneliness
** Problem: If there are curfews, how can a person be temporarily authorized to leave home to provide for others
*** Solution: A mobile/ web app for vulnerable ppl to appoint their helpers
* Personal Hygiene
** knowledge about masks (note: related to "medical equipment")
** Wear masks/ wash hands
* Public Hygiene
** Identify hygiene traps that may increase infection rate
*** Solution: A platform where we can upload pictures and descriptions about areas of hygiene traps
** Disinfect infectious contact points (e.g. supermarkets/hospitals/delivering parcels...)
* Identify who is recovered and who is infected (note: related to "test")
** Why: the recovered can contact the risky/ move around freely
** How:
*** An automated digital triage (chatbot, SMS-bot, telephone system with question tree) to select suspected cases
*** Mass testing
* Decision making
** Use big data to deduce the effectiveness/ economic impact of different preventive measures used by different regions
** A platform where everyone/companies can update their current/estimated economic loss
** An AI based system to give advice for functioning of electricity/ water/ transport/ food /security/health care etc
** Make timely plans with both global and local insights

## Maintain medical services
### Medical equipment and facilities
#### Resource Management

* Stakeholders: authorities, associations, experts, service providers, hospitals
* Resources/Info Type (available and used):
** Medical equipment: gloves, masks, protective gowns, goggles, disinfectants, test toolkits, ventilators
** Medical Facilities: beds, patients transportation
** Medical Staff: doctors (including reservists, those for consulting firms), nurses, helpers
** Patients: (predicted) suspected, confirmed, ICU cases
** Finance
* Problem:
** Too many (suspected) patients waiting for test and treatment
** Insufficient medical resources
** Bad medical resource allocation
** Data protection
* Solution Workflow: Communicate -> Summarize -> Analyze and Prioritize -> Coordinate/ Use the data
* Communicate
** A common communication network for all stakeholders
** A special communication tool for medical staff/ stations, sharing picture/videos/ voice messages/lab data securely (e.g. Join)
** A communication method for the general public to contact different stakeholders easily
* Summarize
** What: all hospitals,manufacturers resource and manpower/ patients' info
** Input: Google sheet/ website form/ uploaded by appointed helpers
** Output: Database/ website/ app/ map
** Type:
*** Confidential Version: for hospitals' use, may contain patients' info or other private data
*** Public Version: For the general public/ outsiders to provide help
* Analyze and Prioritize
** How: AI/ resource managers
* Coordinate
** Exchange/ allocation of Resources (between different health sectors/ donation from the public)
** Voluntary help
*** A web showing which hospitals lack resources and how volunteers can help (e.g. donations)
** Coordination of production
*** Logistics
**** Solution: A real-time software that coordinate production and logistics orders -> a workflow editor that can triggers an order for different material and corresponding transport/ product (e.g. system used by Siemens, Porsche)
*** Factories can convert their production to medical supplies (note: related to "economy")
*** Problem: lack of medical knowledge about self-production of medical supplies
**** Solution: A website/ database/ handbook to share the correct knowledge about self-producing
*** Problem: Bottleneck in production of medical supplies due to lack of resources from abroad
** Patients distribution
*** An app advising patients where they should go
**** It can also search for free beds/clinic within a radius
** Systems in other industry that can be used
*** Bed capacity: hotel booking system
*** patients transport: carpooling and fleet management systems (Uber, Lyft, Blacklane, Talixo, MyTaxi and co)
*** Inventory tracking system
** Financial support

#### Specific Medical Supplies

* Test
** Problem: Testing procedure takes too much time
*** Lengthy phone calls to determine whether needed to be tested
*** Too many people taking tests
*** Too many people calling hotlines
*** Too many forms for doctors to fill in
**** Solution: Centralized data system/ app that fill in most of the info from health insurance card
** Solution Workflow:
*** Preprocess (e.g. CovApp https://covapp.charite.de/)
**** Asking necessary questions for testing (a platform/app):
***** Record of cough, temperature, symptoms, travel, risk group, region, contact list, electronic stethoscope
**** Determine riskiness: Using AI/ helpers/ simple algorithms to estimate a probability of infection
**** Give recommendations
**** Prioritize test lists
*** Test procedure
**** Inform place,date,time of the test quickly
**** Conduct tests:
***** Problem: Cross-infection during/before testing (note: solutions are all for swab test)
***** Solution: At-home test
****** Swab delivery system: can be collected by special mail/ local collection spots
****** QR code system for identifying samples (for convenient management for labs too)
***** Solution: Test booth
***** Solution: An app link the potentially infected to special ambulances (mobile diagnostic centers)-> a test swab is taken at front door
**** Inform all stakeholder of results
**** Instruction and info for quarantine if test is positive
*** Monitor those suspicious but not yet tested positive
**** An diary app recording symptoms everyday (using standardized questions) -> can link to hospital system if suspicious/ severe
*** Other side impacts (note: related to "tracking"):
**** Big data analysis for analysing regional outbreak/ research (e.g. "real-time early warning system" for the virus used in Taiwan)
** Problem: A lot of ppl not tested
*** Solution: Mass testing by volunteers using PCR method
** Problem: Not enough test
* Ventilators
** Solution: 3D-printed open source ventilators
** Solution: Coordinate platform for designing ventilators: e.g. https://www.replacing-luck.de/doku.php
* Masks and Gloves
** Solution: Sewing masks for public use (may find sewing community on social media)
** Solution: A central platform that organizes the postal dispatch of masks and gloves
* Hand Sanitizers
** Solution: small distillers/ brewery companies
* Protective gowns
** Emergency Replacement: Raincoat
* Mobile rescue package for emergency situation
** With an instructional app (e.g. https://mobilizerescue.com/the-technology)

### Medical staff and services

* Shortage of manpower
** Problem: Too many ppl ask doctors for knowledge about COVID-19
*** Solution: Medical chatbots (note: related to "Increase awareness")
** Problem: How to provide regular/COVID-19 medical care at home
*** Solution: An app that digitalizes medical treatment and drug procurement: appointment/ consultation/ therapy sessions/ prescription/ order at the pharmacy/ payment -> with a drug delivery system to vicinity (the delivery system can combine with food/goods delivery)
** Problem: How to provide vaccination
*** Solution: Digital registration
** Problem: Medical staff overwork
*** Solution: A platform where medical staff can register and indicate what things others can help (e.g. shopping)
** Problem: Physical/psychological/social/economic problems for medical staff
** Voluntary work (for hospitals)
*** Provide non-professional services for hospitals:
**** Assistance with food distribution/ cleaning aids/ medicine transports/ patient transports (ambulance replacement)/ guard service
*** Help provide medical service:
**** Learning basics -> on-call/ assistant personnel for clinics
*** A registration platform for those with medical competences/ knowledge but not qualified/ work as medics (e.g. medical students)
**** With a simple qualification/certificate verification process
* Problem: cross-infection at waiting room (note: related to "test"
** Solution: digital-registration
* Problem: Administration of tested/quarantined/ suspected cases within a community
** Solution: A database recording aftercare phone calls/ details of further treatment

### Research for Treatment and Test

* Test:
** Use AI to analyze lung image
* Treatment
** A big database using AI to identify effectiveness of new treatment methods
** Legal issues
*** Simplify vaccine/ treatment approval process

### Terminal care

* Digital/ phone calls (to family members)

## Maintain people's mental and physical health
### Mental health

All emotions are interrelated.
* Reason: unemployment/ food shortage /restriction of freedom/ Isolation/ health condition/ death toll
* Problem: Loneliness (especially for nursing home residents)
** Chatting
*** Method: hotline/ Whatsapp/ telegram/ online/ letters (pen friends)
*** How: random chat/ normal chat/ (emergency) counselling/ chat room/ neighbourhood help
*** Type: anonymous or not
*** Example: "the swedish number" (https://www.theswedishnumber.com/
** Online/ Virtual platforms (note: also related to "Sadness", "Boredom")
*** virtual concerts/ yoga courses/ computer games/ DIY instructions (cooking, building, learning, Playing, thinking)/ festivals/ conferences
**** For virtual concert: ppl can send a piece of music recorded live
*** A digital framework for family conversation
**** May use virtual reality of familiar places (e.g. home)-> using 360 degree cameras
* Problem: Sadness and Fear
** Media (online or magazines) that only have positive news about COVID-19
** Lennon walls and stickers on walls to spread positive info (e.g. HK democratic movement)
** Balcony singing (e.g. Italy)
** Any cheerful and entertaining content
* Problem: Anxiety
** Solution: Breathing exercises/ meditation
* Problem: Boredom
** A platform teaching ppl how to learn new hobbies/ transform old hobbies into corona-safe
* Problem: We might not know if ppl around us are distressed
** Solution: Mood trackers
* Problem: Disputes and conflicts
** Solution: A platform/online training/webinar solving conflicts/disputes/fear
* Professional treatment for mental problems
** What to provide: psychoeducation/ stress management/ emotion regulation/ sleep training
** Solution: A secured platform providing affordable/free coaching
*** Who can register as healers: social work/ occupational therapists/ psychologists/ recovery companions/ peer counselors/ psychological healers
** Solution: An (AI-based) app/ website to provide understandable and entertaining psychological methods
*** Website (e.g. www.info-daretocare.de)
*** AI-based apps (e.g. Moodpath, Selfapy)

### Physical health

** Sports: indoor sports
* Help the weak
** Ppl with chronic illess
*** Sol: A virtual place for ppl to share info (note: can be combined)
** Ppl with mental illness (note: related to "mental")
*** Sol: Matching helpers nearby with those with mental illness.
** Domestic violence
** The old
*** Problem: they may have no cell phone/ smart phone
**** Solution: provide local help regarding communication
**** Solution: Get data from residents' registration office (privacy?)
*** Problem: they need help during the crisis
**** Solution: Neighbourhood help applications/ with automatic telephone answering machine via the Twilio API
***** Explanation: multiple function: help with shopping/ getting goods, help with the household (taking out the garbage) or just a nice phone call
***** Explanation: hotline with speech synthesis, basically act like siri-> auto-recording of orders
***** Explanation: remote call center with volunteers
***** Explanation: record time slots/ info/ region/ shopping list/ trace the purchase by photos
***** Explanation: No contact when delivery goods
***** Problem: payment (paypal?)
*** Problem: Old ppl's homes have introduced a ban on visitors (note: also related to "mental")
**** Sol: telephone/digital communication
** Childcare
*** Problem: Youth welfare is low
**** Sol: New types of low-threshold/"just-in-time"/face-to-face digital counseling service.
*** Problem: No schools -> look for children 24 hrs at home
**** Sol: Interactive learning platform -> children can ask ppl (higher grades/tutors/ teachers) questions with skype
**** Sol: Free Internet/ used discarded laptops for those don't have the equipment
**** Sol: Digital baby sitting-> help stop too-borderline content/ explain/ give parents feed back when children surf the net and play in online playgroups.
**** Sol: audio books for children/ read them live
**** Sol: A calendar with many daily challenges so that kids will not feel bored
*** Problem: Children cannot play outside
**** Sol: Table tennis at home/ an online platform coordinate sponsors to provide table tennis
*** Problem: Parents don't know what to do -> mental health
**** Sol:A platform for parents to share and support each other/ provide tips, time routine/activities/games/ educational methods/ recommendation from pediatricians and family therapists and employers -> (e.g. www.easyfam.com ?)
**** Sol: A recommended daily routine list for children
*** Problem: Separated parents
**** Sol: Virtual mediators-> help parents make arrangements for children. E.g. CoParenter in USA
** Homeless/ refugees
** Deaf or insufficient language ppl
*** Problem: may easy believe in fake news/ follow the current situation
*** Problem: How to contact medical staff
**** Solution: video system with sign language?
*** Problem: International colleague/students
**** Sol: Place them in a shared apartment complex
*** Sol: A multi-language hotline/ website for important news (same class as "awareness")
*** Sol: A translation service (by AI or helpers) for emergency contact with others
** Ppl living abroad
*** Insufficient embassies and consulates general
**** Contact persons at the embassy in case of emergency- Procedure in case of suspicion or illness in nCoV- Hospitals and outpatient clinics that can test for nCoV and treat it if necessary (with adequate health standards)- Risk assessment of the Foreign Office for individual countries- Evacuation plans and information on local travel regulations- Local regulations for quarantine measures- Prevention measures and behaviour during quarantine measures (especially for families)- Information on health insurance etc (case.428)
*** Sol: A mailing list to all ppl working abroad
*** Sol: In emergency situation-> a direct contact with embassy or doctors

### Pets
## Help economy
### Affected industry
#### catering

* takeaway
* donate: prepare meals and deliver them to the needy people
** Solution: A platform receiving donations and give out dishes at a standard price (especially to those in quarantine)
* virtual restaurants/ virtual coffee, beer
** be able to order a digital drink
** talk via video calls, online chat
** the restaurants are verified with map/restaurant association

#### Culture/ Art offers

* Problem: many events are cancelled
** Solutions:
*** Introduction: An online event database for all culture streaming offers
*** Paid events:
**** Paid access to online concert
**** Online exhibition with entrance fee/ introduction videos -> visitors' questions can be answered by artists/ visitors can buy things
*** Online platform with donation functions
*** A digital place to share with friends about art and culture

#### Taxi/ trade/ tourism/ travel

* (Using mutual aid app) free capacity for transportation for shopping / vulnerable people / quarantined ppl/ online delivery

#### Agriculture

* A general Solution: Simplify the farming process
* Problem: Lack of helpers/ seasonal workers
** Bad Impact: No collection of milk/ vegetables/ farming
** Solutions: App/ platform/ social media for coordination and hiring (short-term contract) -> farmers mutual help/ help from volunteers/ hire unemployed (note: related to "shop" and "unemployment")
*** With search function/ description/ calendar function
* Problem: Many veg and fruits will be rotten very fast if not deliver in time
** Solutions: Online fast order system
* Other Problems:
** Shortage of feed due to possible bans on importing
** Food supply/ Energy supply due to biogas
** animal welfare

#### Supermarkets/ shops / lack of resources

* Different aspects: Hygiene/ Advertisement/ Finance/ Business/ Lack of Labour/ Lack of resources <-> Hamster purchases
* General Solution: A map/ platform showing all the (local) shops, with the following functions
** Info Shown:
*** Shops' menu/ phone number/ location/ capacity/ category
*** Whether/ when shops are full/ open or close -> recommend ppl where to buy
**** Analyzing WLAN and Bluetooth signals from nearby devices (e.g. HEAG Mobilo www.heagmobilo.de)
*** Inventory status (whether certain goods are available)
** Authentication for shops
** Direct communication with sellers
*** using personal/partly automated telephone/app
** Finance support: donation, lend money to sellers
*** A long-term model like Patreon
*** May use a block-chain/ crowdfunding/ P2P leading/ solidarity fund
** Transaction
*** buying gift cards/vouchers for later service/ (special) goods
**** Protection for customers: Government guarantee protecting against the event of bankruptcy
**** Advantage: We can send this personalized gift cards to others (note: related to "isolation and loneliness")
*** online shopping
**** How to get goods: delivery service/ self-fetching
**** How to pack goods: stuff put in hygienic containers
**** How to pick up: book pick-up date (use QR code)
**** How to pay: QR code/ digital payment
**** How to deliver goods:
***** Decentralized/ centralized(delivery once a day using a central coordinate system)
***** Delivery method: voluntary/ taxi-transformed system/ logistic company/ a system like Uber
*** special shopping time slots
**** Type 1: different time slots for different risk groups (UK) (e.g. https://www.transporeon.com/en/products/management/time-slot-management/)
**** Type 2: book shopping time slots (May use QR code)
***** Type 2.1: only those booked are allowed to enter
***** Type 2.2: those booked are allowed to queue for a special fast queue
*** Special arrangement for those in need
**** Possible pre-ordering for ppl with "certificates" proving they have a special need (note: related to "lack of resources")
** Help buyers (note: related to "Hygiene" as well)
*** Mutual aid: allows ppl to buy goods for others
**** Type 1: Ppl can order goods from who is shopping nearby (like Uber, with a fee)
**** Type 2: Form a group -> establish a common shopping list -> buy things for others in the group
*** A guide/ personalized checklist for ppl: what they need to buy/keep in stock
**** Reminded by their app when/where their need is available
* Hygiene
** Shops' perspective
*** Management the number of clients in shops
*** Keeping physical distance between clients and employees
*** Protection for employees (e.g. masks and gloves)
*** Prepare pre-filled shopping bags for fast buying (e.g. "Vegetable" bag contains vegetables)
* Finance
** Solution: A program where big online shops agree to give some money they earn to small shops chosen by customers
* Advertisement
** Solution: Can use automated SMS/ interactive map to create advertisements for local shops (note: what if ppl don't want them)
* Lack of Labour
** Problem: Hotlines overwhelmed by customer concerns
*** Solution: Automated AI support: recording in digital form/ cleansing private info/ scanning and clustering to create an organization-specific Corona structure/ know the main topics and problems customers have / choose the standard solution to them/ evaluation of the response
* Lack of resources
** Logistics
** Problem: ppl like canned food, but not vegetables
*** Solution: cookbook with 60-80 recipes based on basic ingredients
*** Solution: turn fresh vegetables into canned food
** Solution: An app for efficient rationing in the region-> match essential demand with supply, using a centralized supply system
** Solution: A platform for exchange/donate/borrowing resources and labour (note: related to "Unemployment")
*** Possible to use: Open-source based block-chain or distributed ledge technology (decentralized and transparant)
* Big online shop/platform
** They benefit from this COVID-19 (e.g. Amazon) -> they charge high fees

#### Bank

* Digital/ partially automated processes (for the following processes)
** processing financing applications
** official procedures
** Online banking

#### Small economic units

* Definition: traders/ producers/ craftsmen/ caretakers/ logisticians/ self-employed persons/ Start-ups and SMEs etc
* Finance:
** Problem: Small companies have no mature financial system/ CFO
*** Solution: A CFO on demand platform
**** What to provide: practices/tools/workflows/templates /advice
**** About what: Cash Flow management/ KPI/ financial reports/ Virtual conferences/ Expert surveys/ Courses and learning materials/ tool vendors/ Virtual niche events
** Problem: Small companies may have greater liquidity problem
*** Solution: Financial buffer/ emergency fund
* Law (low cost):
** Problem: Law issues about short-time work/child care/ holidays/dismissals/wage claims
*** Solution: Student legal advice
* A general platform:
** Solution: A platform for entrepreneurs/ self-employed ppl to post a short message talking about their challenge -> can be helped in different ways (donations/ discussion/ opinions)
** Funding: Business angel networks/ crowd funding/ micro-credits

#### Normal business

* Digital/ Innovative Solutions (low-threshold and scalable)：
** Team platform (e.g. MS Team or similar)
** A free/digital marketplace where companies can easily set up their business (e.g. Digital Mall)
** Innovative logistics approaches (e.g. open parcel shops)
** EU corona response initiative
** Virtual trade fair
* Finance:
** Fintecs
** Information platforms (bundling/ filtering/ processing many econ and financial info)
** Problem: Insolvency and liquidity problem
* Home Office
** Problem: no fast verbal communication
*** Solution: establish a company level chat facilities with security in mind (e.g. Virtual project room)
** Problem: How to reorganize and redesign processes and working methods -> work effectively
** Problem: Digital administration
*** Solution: To develop simple/ user-friendly and safe solutions for PCs to be switched on remotely
** Problem: There is a mass of unused professional equipment due to office work
*** Solution: they can be lend to others/ receive cashless payment
** Problem: Lack of knowledge
*** Solution: A platform finding existing tools,solutions/providing guidelines for office work

### Unemployment

* Industries that lack labour: supermarkets, harvesting, nursing, delivery services, people who shop for others, web designers, etc
* Solution: An online platform matching those need to work and those need labour (note: related to "agriculture")
** Those need to work: The unemployed/ students looking for part-time job/ idle employees not yet fired
** Optional solution: Temporary loaning employees between companies
** Info provided:
*** skill/ exp/ possible time frame/ region matching
** Characteristics of the jobs provided:
*** Uncomplicated/ location-oriented (like Uber)
** Templates/ recommendations provided:
*** legal advice/ contract, regulation, insurance framework template
** How to introduce the new job:
*** Interdisciplinary mentoring, introduction videos for career changers
** Problem: Temporary employees may not be protected properly-> they are not a member of trade union/ lack of social security/ safety

### Financial request/ support

* Apply for government financial aid/ equity capital/ loan
** Solution Flow: Summarize information -> recommendation -> simplify and automation
** Summarize information
*** Solution: bundle all information offers (e.g. info about law/ possible reconstruction ...)
** Recommendation
*** Solution: A platform for procurement of equity capital/ loan (similar to online dating platforms)
*** Problem: It is unclear which aid/ loan program is suitable
**** Solution: A digital/ standardized/ AI system to find out which funding programmes are suitable
** Simplify and automation
*** Problem: the application system for financial aid/ loan is too complex (too many forms)
**** Solution: A simple digital platform for short-time work benefits
**** Solution: Semi-auto entering info and doc/sending the applications/ process cases/ digital payment
* Directly help those who need money
** Solution: Financial support groups (redistribution of income among groups)(note: this looks like communism)
** A platform for asking for help (e.g. Share the meal)
* Problem: possible abuse

### Digital Economy

* digital donation/ payment/ micro-investment/ contract
* Usage of blockchain
** Smart contract
* Usage of cryptocurrency

### Chances and risks of globalization and internationalization
## Maintain societal function

* Education
** e-learning platform
** virtual classroom
* Government Operation
* Communication between social groups
* Crisis management
* Public administration
* Culture/ Art offers (note: solutions already shown in "economy" section)
* Border control
** Problem: Congestion at border (e.g. trucks) -> delivery bottleneck -> spoiled good
*** Solution: QR code for police: Auto-fill some info for online questionnaire/ avoid double check
*** Solution: Automated entry/exit control system, with license plate readers
* Data and cyber security
** Increase awareness for companies
*** Solution: A video campaign shows the biggest mistakes made by home office and simulates popular cyber attack
*** Solution: A blacklist including fake article websites/apps
* Social welfare system
** Problem: drop in donation for charity
** Problem: Social workers hard to meet those need help
*** Solution: Video chat
** Food banks
*** Problem: lack resources
**** Sol: An online food donation platform
*** Problem: difficult to distribute rations in food banks
**** Sol: helpers help delivery food
* Religion
** Problem: No church service or gathering
*** Bad Impact: Mental problem
*** Solution: Make it digital, while keeping the prayer format close to the original version
*** Solution: Let believers to communicate with each other -> do not feel lonely

## Support other projects

* Allocation of helpers and resources
** Think from different perspectives: companies/ volunteers/ those need help/ those with extra resources
** Sol: Distribution of tokens for projects and supporters -> provide evidence of value -> tokens can be used as medium of exchange in P2P marketplaces or discounts
** Sol: A (real-time) platform for finding and registering volunteers/ special skills are recorded and verified
* Funding
** Micro-donation
*** Solution: donation campaign->customers round up their purchase (e.g. Germany rounds up" donation campaign: http://www.deutschland-rundet-auf.de)
*** Sol: online shopping -> advertising commissions are generated via so-called affiliate marketing
** Problem: not transparent
*** Sol: transparent distribution of donations (using bitcoins, e.g. https://github.com/protontypes/openselery)
** Reimbursement of travel expenses
* Advertising
* A common platform for all projects
* A centralized database (proper visualization)
** real-time
** Telecommunication providers have to provide movement profiles
** Health authorities have to report their case numbers centrally
** Hospitals report their capacity in real time/ length of stay
** Retail sales
** Anonymous patient data
** Num of death/ excess mortality cases (with or without acute respiratory disease, with or without COVID-19 detected)
* Efficient information transfer
* Coordination between service provides and regional coordination
* Ideas and knowledge (proper visualization)
** A platform to exchange ideas and experiences (e.g. for different projects) ->network the knowledge

## Other

* List of communication methods: telephone, website, chat bots, messenger apps and language assistance systems such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, etc.
* Things ppl should know: Rules of conduct for social contacts/ Hygiene rules (e.g. door handles/ phones) /Own assessment of whether belongs to the risk group/ Which authorities are responsible/ Travel rules
* Standardization of projects (for ventilators): goals/non-goals/budget/laws / Secures stored evidence/concepts/ guidelines/ work instruction procedures via on/offline tooling provides a comprehensive structure/ guidance for implementation as well as a highly available and redundant platform to implement an up-to-date/ emergency preparedness management/ As well as a very good integration and digitalization of necessary documentation -> (Case.224)