| Project name | Organization name | Summary | Status | Social impact areas |
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| Address geocoding | Metropolis Department of Public Health | We have a database of our residents and their addresses that needs to be geocoded for us to determine what public health resources are needed where | New |
Health
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| COVID Mali | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | COVID Mali is a consortium of skilled engineers, designers, architects, and makers working on prototyping and refining PPE equipment and other medical supplies with localized raw materials in Bamako, Mali. Our team builds much-needed equipment including shields, gowns, prototypes for N95 equivalent respirators, and vacuum molding for bending/forming plastic or plexiglass (i.e. for face shields) to name a few. We plan to procure some raw materials abroad but aim to mainly rely on locally-procured materials for production, while simultaneously bolstering our local community partnerships for those who will fall most vulnerable to the virus. | Waiting for volunteers |
Health
Social Services Public Safety |
| Data Integration - Matching records | Metropolis Department of Public Health | Match records of people coming from disparate data sources from various health services that the city provides | New |
Health
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| Disparities in Erdos Numbers | Paul Erdos Admiration Society | The goal of this project is to better understand disparities in the global distribution of Erdos Numbers. | New |
Education
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| GraphLab and IDDP Mapping the Spread | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | Dr. Howie Huang’s GraphLab, together with Dr. David Broniatowski and IDDP (Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics) researchers, is working to map the prevalence and spread of attitudes towards COVID-19 on online social media platforms. They are examining repositories of social media data related to the epidemic, starting as early as January 2020, to map the spread of discussion, information, and attitudes towards the disease and the public health response to the outbreak. | Waiting for volunteers | |
| Machine Learning Algorithms for COVID-19 Data Analysis | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | Dr. Huang’s GraphLab is working to understand the online attitudes towards COVID-19 on social media platforms, and also examine a collection of coronavirus related scholarly articles for actionable knowledges that benefit the flight against the outbreak. | Waiting for volunteers |
Education
Health Social Services |
| Project A | Organization A | Test project | In scoping phase |
Environment
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| Putting a face to IllinoisLegalAid.org's anonymous users | Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) | IllinoisLegalAid.org will be used by over 3 million people in 2020. With a average website session of just under two minutes, Illinois Legal Aid Online (ILAO) has little understanding of the impact it makes on its users. ILAO seeks to gain insights from its website user data about who it serves, how it serves them, and how it can improve its services. | New |
Other
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| Rapidly Deployable Breast Pump Ventilator to Combat Coronavirus | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | A simple, bare bones ventilator using parts that are readily available at a total cost of ~$300. The heart of the system is a widely used breast pump with the airflow reversed. We believe that there are thousands of these in dresser drawers and closets across the country that are not being used which can be used to complement new machines currently in the supply chain. | New |
Health
Social Services |
| Social Media for Public Health | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | We are conducting several studies using social media to better understand public health trends and misinformation around COVID-19. | Waiting for volunteers |
Health
Social Services Public Safety |
| Test Project | Organization Name | This is a test project. | Waiting review | |
| Tutorial Project | Organization Name | This is a tutorial project. | Waiting for volunteers |
Education
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| Washington DC COVID sitters | The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science | This is an opportunity for members of the GW Medical School community only. We are looking for a volunteer project manager to coordinate temporary daycare services for families of faculty and healthcare workers in the GW Medical School community who are devoting themselves to caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and don’t have time to provide daycare for their own families. This project is patterned after the COVIDsitters project recently started at the University of Minnesota. (Note: You must know, and have an existing relationship with, someone in the Medical School to participate in this project.) | New |
Health
Social Services Public Safety |