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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 accelerated in the UK, we have seen a lot of things happen online. There is a lot of coverage about the impact of the virus nationally but a majority of citizens' concerns will be focused locally. Where is this local data? If it is missing, how do we get it published?
With the help of NHS Digital (one of our sponsors) and Beautiful Information, we want to do what we do best in this time of uncertainty - we want to bring people together around this issue; share resources and knowledge; nurture the environment where innovation can just happen; and create useful tools and assets on the web, accessible by all, reusable and shareable.
Where do we begin?
As with a lot of our hackathon or innovation pathway events, we will start with an initial warm-up session. This is going to be done virtually using Zoom on Thursday 26 March 2020 from 11:00. We will post the Zoom meeting details via Eventbrite (if you register, we can keep you updated about future meetings and the date of the hackathon itself).
We will cover three main points:
- Who wants to join in? (And who should join in?)
- The data - where is it, what do we need, and what should we have?
- What should we work on? (The initial focus is on what is locally relevant)
We've also created a single page on our website that we can use to keep everything together - links to events or online sessions, Google Docs to track notes, links to data, etc. We will try to keep this as up to date as possible, but we welcome suggestions and help from anyone.
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