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Learn about the roles open source technologies and communities are playing in international health and humanitarian efforts.

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Open source development works to improve contact tracing in Europe

Analyzing data on Corona-Warn-App's development shows how quickly open source can scale up to help stop disease outbreaks.

J. Manrique Lopez de la Fuente 19 Jul 2020 82 votes

Questions we should ask about COVID-19 contact-tracing apps

Three ways to judge contact-tracking apps from the point of view of "openness."

Mike Bursell (Correspondent) 20 May 2020 71 votes 2 comments

Pandemic stress test: The open source cloud is up to the challenge

The benefits of the cloud are being brought into focus by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Bocetta 19 May 2020 71 votes

An Elasticsearch and Kibana-based dashboard for COVID-19

This dashboard enables anyone to review the global pandemic, a specific country's status, and compare data and trends across countries.

Horovits Dotan 12 May 2020 85 votes

Open source underpins coronavirus IoT and robotics solutions

From sanitization of equipment and facilities to plotting the spread of the virus, robots are playing an active role in combating COVID-19.

Sam Bocetta 10 May 2020 105 votes 2 comments

Using Python to visualize COVID-19 projections

I'll demonstrate how to create two visualizations of the spread of a virus across the globe, provided open data and using open source libraries.

Anurag Gupta 21 Apr 2020 135 votes 4 comments

How I use Python to map the global spread of COVID-19

Create a color coded geographic map of the potential spread of the virus using these open source scripts.

Anurag Gupta 21 Apr 2020 101 votes 5 comments

How young people can help fight COVID-19 with code

Youth developers are invited to submit ideas by April 15 to counter the educational, informational, social, and health challenges uncovered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Melissa Sasi 14 Apr 2020 69 votes

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