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title: Civic tech challenges against COVID-19 Pandemics
tags:  #digital health #covid-19 #global health #pandemic #civictech  
author: [Shinji KOBAYASHI](https://www.docswell.com/user/skoba)
site: [Docswell](https://www.docswell.com/)
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description: COVID-19 Pandemicに対するOpen source, Open data, Open Scienceでの取り組みとCivic techについて国内外の事例をまとめて提示しました。過去に何度か発表したもののまとめです。 東京のコロナウイルスダッシュボードを採用した県はopen dataを提供していることが多いと、統計的にも示した過去の論文も引用しています。 License: CC-BY
published: June 25, 24
canonical: https://www.docswell.com/s/skoba/5P9VG6-2024-06-25-152754
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Civic tech challenges against COVID-19
Pandemics.
Sjo
Shinji Kobayashi
Chair of Open Source Software council, Japan
exChair of Open Source Working Group, IMIA


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Civic Tech
Collaborative activity of the government and people by
technology.
“Open government” – Barak Obama, 2009
Data access and transparency – open data
Resident feedback
Public decision making
Community Action
Peer-to-peer local sharing
Information crowdsourcing – open source software
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Civic Tech in Japan
Fights against disasters by union of governments and tech
citizens.
2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Support logistics by OpenStreetMap.
Radio active surveillance
At first, the government provided data by “PDF”.
The surveillance map was developed by citizens, and showed the pollution was limited. CSV
formatted data were provided by the feedback from citizens.
Kumamoto earthquake
Typhoons
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CivicTech against COVID-19 in Taiwan
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Numbers of mask supply provided by Taiwan
govenment
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Realtime mask map by volunteers from open data
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Tokyo gov responeded against COVID-19 in 2020
Date
Description
Feb 26
Tokyo gov decided to launch a web dashboard for COVID-19.
Mar 2
Vice Present Miyasaka (former vice president of Yahoo Japan) ordered
CODE for Japan(CfJ) to develop dashboard site by open-source software
Mar 4
CfJ launched a site and published source codes on GitHub
Mar 5
Tokyo gov published open data of COVID-19 infections.
Mar 18
More than 1000 pull requests, 3000 commits,
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Open Data from Tokyo gov.
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https://catalog.data.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/dataset/t000010d000000006
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Civic Tech against COVID-19 in Tokyo
-COVID-19 dashboard
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https://stopcovid19.metro.tokyo.lg.jp
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Source codes
https://github.com/tokyo-metropolitan-gov/covid19
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English version was translated by volunteers
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Translation to multi-languages
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Forked sites (ex. Hokkaido)
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https://stopcovid19.hokkaido.dev
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Audrey Tang (Digital Minister of Taiwan)
contributed
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Synergistic effect of open source and
open data in Japan
Prefectures
Dashboard (+)
Dashboard (+)
Total
Open data
20
2
22
No open Data
10
15
25
Total
30
17
Odds ratio: 2.27, Fisher test: p = 0.00058
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Summary
Civic Tech is one of the most promising tools of eHealth.
Openness is the key to involve the governments and citizens.
Tokyo project issued their reporting site by open source software and the data are
available as open data.
3005 commits, 173 contributors, 8 translations in 10 days
12 web sites in other prefectures opened using the source codes.
Open data and open source seemed to have a synergistic effect to build COVID-19
dashboard.
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Will + Technology = Infinite possibility
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