HopeSpotsaddresses this challenge by starring the heroes, showing to all the world that we are not alone and inspiring us with their stories, being the hope and light in this chaos.
HopeSpots integrates social networking strategies to connect the COVID-19 heroes with the global population, spreading their experience of recovery worldwide as the isolation solution.
HopeSpotscombats social isolation, caused by estrangement policies implemented around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by generating an innovative solution that uses a website and an app to show COVID-19 recovery cases on an interactive map. This map shows the testimonies of COVID-19 recovered people, allowing the experiences interchange and connectivity between global population.
HopeSpots is an application developed to benefit people infected with COVID-19 and their families, is a support tool to reduce the risks associated with social isolation diseases such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, among others.
HopeSpots is designed for recovered people allowing them to share their stories and for people who have not been infected with COVID – 19 allowing them to read the stories, react and comment them.
HopeSpots allows people to acquire information that they did not previously have about COVID-19, learn new ways of dealing with a pandemic, how to face the symptoms, understand humans' reactions in each disease stage, knowing the sensations felt. This understanding produces in the people the courage to share their feelings and thoughts, reducing emotional diseases by unhidden them.
HopeSpots is a social network including a web site and an app that uses data from SEDAC Global COVID-19 Viewer and from COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Unexpected events happen every day but with COVID-19's magnitude, very few. COVID-19 disease spread has been a monumental unexpected event, which global population was not prepared for.
These events generate a disbalance in happiness, well-being, health, social relationships and peace. Space Age was inspired in this disbalance to choose this challenge, by creating HopeSpots to increase the sense of social connection and reduce social isolation.
HopeSpots is focus on obtaining the “magic from chaos”, which means seizing the COVID-19 as an opportunity, extracting the positive from the negative. We expect to change the world by creating “A new view of life”.
HopeSpots use data from SEDAC Global COVID-19 Viewer and from COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University to determine, relate and present the COVID-19 recovered people, calculate the recovery rate and the potential amount of heroes' stories.
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At the beginning of this project, we did a scoring for all the challenges, choosing one by consensus. However, during the project development, we had to change it because we realized that our project central idea solves the problem of another challenge.
Space Age achievement is attributed to be a group of friends with the desire to change the world. Space Age is a balanced team with friends from different disciplines, in order to be able to consider and obtain different perspectives from the subject. In fact, we did it in this way, the most productive moments in the project development were debates and brainstorming, starting from choosing a challenge until submitting the project.
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