The entire COVID situation has massively disrupted the supply chain, making millions of people unemployed, disrupted almost all structural institutions, including the health care system, making millions, if not billions of people, vulnerable to socio-economic vulnerabilities. Tracking down these vulnerable communities and making sure they receive adequate stimulus support is essential for the government. While development organizations fail to track these vulnerable communities, Mapped uses human dimension data along with factors co-related with socio-economic development like human movement, urban settlements, and emission heatmaps available in NASA's open data portal to visualize these communities. Mapped uses crowd-sourcing information to collect visuals on the needed necessities to help create a bridge between vulnerable populations and development organizations. Having different trajectories, and unique algorithm system makes Mapped an essential tool for development organizations to make sure these vulnerable communities receive the much-needed financial attention. Moreover, Mapped makes sure to keep track of support in this crisis to ensure the maximum efficiency and maximum use of the given stock. It's an all-in-one data visualization tool for different organizations to help track people who need support.
The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis: it is affecting societies and economies at their core. The pandemic impact will vary from country to country; It will most likely increase poverty and inequalities on a global scale. Assessing the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on societies, economies, and vulnerable groups are fundamental to inform and tailor the responses of governments and partners to recover from the crisis and ensure that no one is left behind in this effort. Without urgent socio-economic responses, global suffering will escalate, jeopardizing lives, and livelihoods for years to come. Immediate development responses in this crisis must be undertaken with an eye to the future. Development trajectories in the long-term will be affected by the choices countries make now and the support they receive. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the socio-economic response will be one of three critical components of the COVID-19 response, alongside the health response, and the Global Humanitarian Response Plan.
Observing first hand from the perspective of a developing country, we realized what the maintain challenges faced by such vulnerable communities are. Accessing everyday items has been impossible for the last couple of months due to the massive disruption in the supply chain. While the privileged class can still afford groceries, emergency health-care, water-supply, electricity, and other sources, it is extremely difficult for vulnerable and underprivileged communities. Keeping that in mind, we developed an innovative mobile application that tracks down different vulnerable communities who need immediate support. We developed an innovative mobile application that tracks these vulnerable communities down by calculating the population's density through satellite images, understanding the populace's movement pattern, and using various open-source NASA data. The added feature of asking for stimulus support, emergency medical attention, and other facilities make this a life-saver for vulnerable communities. Moreover, development organizations can utilize this application as a resource to target communities that faced the most difficulties due to the entire COVID situation.
Source: https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/coronavirus/socio-economic-impact-of-covid-19.html
We will use human dimension data along with factors co-related with socio-economic development like human movement, urban settlements, and emission heatmaps. The datasets will be sourced from the EOSDIS and MODIS modules from the earth-observing satellites.