COVID-19: We Need Crowdsourcing for Real-time Info (ENGLISH speech)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2021-02-08

Brief opening remarks in Macedonian, my speech in ENGLISH.


Accurate, timely information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic has been slow to come. Web pages - even institutional ones - remained outdated, pull only, jumbles of text; apps were a debacle and spurned by users. Fake news, misinformation, and conspiracy theories created an infodemic.

The only solution is wiki and other crowdsourcing technologies. Citizens can provide real-time medical and other information to be curated by volunteering medical doctors.