How innovation communities — around the world — are banding together to fight COVID-19

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“It — somehow — hasn’t even been three months since the novel coronavirus was first identified, after dozens of people fell ill in Wuhan, China. But in that short time, scientists and researchers have worked at warp speed to understand the disease it causes: Already, nearly 30,000 studies have been conducted on COVID-19, examining everything from transmission and incubation to risk factors and potential therapeutics.

That’s a lot of findings scattered across journals around the world. But to control the pandemic, a certain level of coordination and collaboration is crucial. And organizations around the world are finding new ways to help share and analyze what is known so far. Last week, an impressive group of organizations launched the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (or CORD-19, for short) to help researchers access these vital studies. Georgetown University, the National Institutes of Health, Microsoft and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative all worked to compile and map them. Then, the non-profit Allen Institute for AI converted them from websites and PDFs into a handy machine-readable format. Now, Google subsidiary Kaggle is hosting a CORD-19 challenge, encouraging data scientists and machine-learning researchers to surface answers to crucial questions about the coronavirus and related pathogens.”

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