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What about more social network type projects? As someone living in a relatively cheap apt building in Chicago, I was thinking that this could be an opportunity

What about more social network type projects? As someone living in a relatively cheap apt building in Chicago, I was thinking that this could be an opportunity to get people to actually interact more with the aid of technology, form local support networks for sharing information and other resources, make sure the most vulnerable people have some support, etc. Lots of people are stuck at home, lots of people are nervous, lots of people may need help in the coming weeks. I wish our apartment building had at least a forum for sharing a little info.

mNovak 7y ago
This is the niche nextdoor.com tries to fill. It's pretty hyper-local, I see a lot of posts about crime and such on my and neighboring streets.
lmeyerov 7y ago
Maybe of interest is our entry for Graphistry. Agree that a lot of the impact right now, and for weeks to come, is the behavior change needed to prevent and slow down the coming shortages and enable containment to get back up. Social media has failed to live up to its promise, and instead is empowering misinformation to translate into deadly behavior. We're ramping up on a misinformation detection & notification project specialized on COVID right where the misinformation happens. We're putting together an open effort around data scientists, data engineers, & developers on one side (GPU graph neural nets, collaborative investigation stack, and TBD for anti-misinfo response bots + platform abuse filings), and analysts on the other (guiding the systems, identifying categories of abuse, identify underlying coordinated activity). This builds on existing collaborative efforts & tech here. More info in days to come. Volunteers welcome from above specialties! We're gathering additional resources to help ramp up, a lot happening fast.
szemy2 7y ago
It would be interesting to self report your positive covid result to fb/social networks which could give an warn connection if they need to be tested or not (the assumption being that you are likelier to meet someone in IRL if you are a connection).
fragmede 7y ago
If your apartment building has a shared entryway, make a Facebook group and post flyers asking neighbors to join at the entryway.

mNovak 7y ago

This is the niche nextdoor.com tries to fill. It's pretty hyper-local, I see a lot of posts about crime and such on my and neighboring streets.

lmeyerov 7y ago

Maybe of interest is our entry for Graphistry. Agree that a lot of the impact right now, and for weeks to come, is the behavior change needed to prevent and slow down the coming shortages and enable containment to get back up. Social media has failed to live up to its promise, and instead is empowering misinformation to translate into deadly behavior. We're ramping up on a misinformation detection & notification project specialized on COVID right where the misinformation happens. We're putting together an open effort around data scientists, data engineers, & developers on one side (GPU graph neural nets, collaborative investigation stack, and TBD for anti-misinfo response bots + platform abuse filings), and analysts on the other (guiding the systems, identifying categories of abuse, identify underlying coordinated activity). This builds on existing collaborative efforts & tech here. More info in days to come. Volunteers welcome from above specialties! We're gathering additional resources to help ramp up, a lot happening fast.

szemy2 7y ago

It would be interesting to self report your positive covid result to fb/social networks which could give an warn connection if they need to be tested or not (the assumption being that you are likelier to meet someone in IRL if you are a connection).

fragmede 7y ago

If your apartment building has a shared entryway, make a Facebook group and post flyers asking neighbors to join at the entryway.