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COVID-19

Hi,


I think that is a good idea to implement one website with 360 view like:

-Dashboards with all accessible metrics;

-Useful scientific and clarification links on Covid-19;

-Useful contact and help links by country of origin;

-Moderated chat on the topic.


I think that this can be usefull.


Best regards,

Ricardo M Pereira

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Merged this idea with 'Information aggregator (Possible evolution to mobile App for notifications)' (created on 18 Mar 2020 16:24:21 by António Chinita)

I have this running for me and a few friends, for a few days now. Built it in a couple of hours.

http://coronapt.outsystemscloud.com/CoronaInfo/

The goal is to provide a single simple to use fast source for data and related news.

Data is imported into SQL tables to skip the network delays of consuming multiple API's / Scrappers in runtime. As you can see, it's pretty snappy.

Most people currently have to browse through multiple websites to get the information they need, and there is no simple easy to memorize URL for it.

To solve this I've set up a few subdomains on my company's secondary domain:
http://corona.b64.pt [iFrame to keep the URL in the address bar for easy copy/paste]
http://coronavirus.b64.pt [Redirect - Read further for the reason a redirect alternative is needed ATM] 

The problem with the iFrame approach is some devices appear to have problems accessing the reactive Website through an iFrame. So we'd need to get a proper domain for that cloud, which is where Outsystems support could come in handy.

Building an App around it would allow us to send notifications to users when stats get updated.

A social news rating could also be built around the news part of it, allowing users to vote relevant news Up, making news with enough upVotes more visible and possibly sent to users through push notification (in case they have the App).


Most people just want information at their fingertips, let's make an Outsystems website/app provide that to them.


Next update:

During the weekend I'll also include all the charts @ https://esriportugal.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/acf023da9a0b4f9dbb2332c13f635829

I've already implemented the country map as a PoC for the arcgis API.




This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Information aggregator (Possible evolution to mobile App for notifications)' (created on 18 Mar 2020 by António Chinita)
- merged to idea 'Covid 360º' on 21 Mar 2020 16:22:40 by Rodrigo Coutinho

I just realized I totally ignored the pitch format... So here goes:

1) Idea pitch: Explain what you want to achieve and the expected impact. This should be 1 paragraph at most.
This website would aggregate relevant information about the pandemic in Portugal. Most people currently have to navigate through a lot of complicated websites to get their updated stats and news, often more than two or three websites. This aggregator would join all that information in a single easy to remember, easy to use and easy to share URL. Further expanding it with a dedicated app would allow us to  beam said information to the users directly, even helping reduce anxiety levels generated by the constant refreshing of a stats page in a situation like this.

2) What you can offer: Do you just have just an idea, or do you have the knowledge and time to code, or even a team ready to go? 

The idea is pretty simple,  so we can make it work quite quickly (it's even already running).

3) What you need to succeed: What kind of team do you need to make the idea a success?  Think tech skills and subject matter expertise. Any additional things OutSystems can do for you?

Me and my associates have worked with Outsystems for 11+ years each, I think we have the technical knowledge to get this up and running  :)
If I could choose one skill we're missing, and that is very important when developing something with the goal of being fast, simple, useful and providing a meaningful experience, it would be the insight of a UI/UX expert.

The current running version is not storing historical data and does not allow users to sign in to prevent it from going past the free cloud limits, so an enterprise license would probably help open up a few evolution possibilities.

The goal of this is to be simple in order to be shared by everyone very easily, so we would need a dedicated domain for the app. I sort of got past this with my own domain, but apparently there are some issues with a few devices running the reactive apps inside an iFrame... and currently I have no way to get around that.


4) Additional thoughts: If there’s anything else important that you need us and the community to know, you can put that at the end. 
This idea is very simple, very fast to implement, and is usable by most of the population. It can evolve into many things from the original concept. 

Due to it's general interest nature, if it becomes a central point where users go get their info and keep themselves updated, it can even be used to link/integrate other ideas being implemented within this initiative.

Sometimes simple ideas can have a huge impact :)



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Information aggregator (Possible evolution to mobile App for notifications)' (created on 18 Mar 2020 by António Chinita)
- merged to idea 'Covid 360º' on 21 Mar 2020 16:22:40 by Rodrigo Coutinho

We should have this for all european countries.

And assign a steward by country to upload new data everyday, as source are different by countries.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Information aggregator (Possible evolution to mobile App for notifications)' (created on 18 Mar 2020 by António Chinita)
- merged to idea 'Covid 360º' on 21 Mar 2020 16:22:40 by Rodrigo Coutinho

Amazing site by the way! Cheers