CALLING ALL HUMANS!

Four minutes of your time can save thousands, if not millions, of lives!

As you all know, governments across the planet are struggling to contain the spread of Covid-19. The reason behind this is simple: things are moving too quickly making it extremely difficult to keep track of what is happening and where it is happening. The answer is simple: DATA!

Until treatments and vaccines are developed, data is our greatest weapon against Covid-19, and it’s about time we used it. We are launching a global survey to collect and analyze data from citizens across the planet - the first of its kind in history- to help governments and our communities in their battle against the greatest challenge of the Internet Age.

All we are asking for is four minutes of your time to share this post and fill out this simple, completely anonymous survey that can save thousands, if not millions of lives, as well as the livelihoods of most small business owners and day laborers. If you answer these questions as accurately as possible, you will provide us with extremely valuable information that can reveal where outbreak zones are and how they have been developing over the past few weeks. That means seeing an early end to the mass quarantine measures currently being employed and enforced around the planet.

How? Well, for example, if thirty people on your block report that they have symptoms consistent with Covid-19, your local government will be able to act quickly to treat patients, contain the local spread, and warn those on your block to take extra steps to safeguard themselves. You yourself will be more cautious and will have a direct view of your neighborhood's status regarding the coronavirus.

Imagine the network effect, and application of wisdom of the crowd to actually get more insight and provide a new angle to specialist & data analysts to come-up with the most impactful solutions. The only way this would be successful is if you (the person taking first initiative in filling out the survey) also shares/makes sure that at least two others fill out the survey as well. And the cycle goes on branching and multiplying into a huge network.

All of this anonymous information could be released daily on Kaggle and Github so that researchers, data scientists, companies and governments can quickly access and analyze it.

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Who are we?

We are an international team of volunteers donating our time and our effort to support those on the front line. Our team consists of graduates/post-graduates from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Toronto, UCL, and KCL. Our members are from Egypt, England, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Korea, and the US. Among our ranks are junior doctors, physicists, engineers, marketers, political scientists, and data scientists. We welcome and are open to collaborating with anyone who can help us develop FREE, OPEN-SOURCE solutions to the challenges up ahead.

Who is supporting us?

We are currently being supported by Lyra, a leading firm in AI and Data Analytics, and are supported by Eva Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company based in Egypt, who have kindly provided full access to their resources in support of our common cause.

Contact information:

If you want to track updates of our efforts or collaborate with us, you may reach us through our

FB page: SMASH the CURVE

or

via email: smash.the.curve.covid19@gmail.com

This great initiative has been lead and sparked by my dear friend and genius: Maher El Gohr who co-authored this article. It's by his courtesy that I'm sharing this with you.