Dia Zero - Space Apps Challenge

Dia Zero| Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

Day 0

Summary

Our challenge is to curate information about COVID-19 and disseminate it in a unified and innovative way. Our solution aims to improve the understanding and quality of local information and collect data to improve understanding of the spread and current state of the disease. The application will collect the data provided by users, in addition to bringing information from trusted organizations and cross-referencing the information, which may increasingly present a real scenario for the user. With the solution we will break down barriers of inequality in the delivery of reliable information, in a fun way.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project fits well with the proposed challenge, as it addresses the issue of reducing dissemination through a totally reliable information, in addition to being able to cross information from reliable sources with data from those who are experiencing the scenario, that is, the user who inserts collaboratively, in a fun way, information about the situation in its location, meeting the best use of data and the best concept of mission.

How We Developed This Project

The project was inspired by the current context in which we live, of many doubts related to the news available and the lack of confidence we have in it, since there are many sources and each one is not coherent with the other, which in a pandemic situation it can lead to misinformation and, consequently, to wrong behavior in relation to health protection, affecting everyone.

We started to search for solutions on the web and references for sites and applications that somehow provide a service similar to what we thought of offering. During the research we came across a game about the pandemic and we had the idea of the format. From there we looked for what relevant data could reliably inform the user so that he could know how best to act on his location, so we looked for what data NASA and the government could provide us with so that we could focus on the app and disseminate it to the user, in addition to create a system that would curate news related to the topic only on trusted sites (such as NASA) and make it available to the user who will receive information requested guided through a quiz that will also capture data inserted by the user (data like: “Do you know someone who has been infected?” “How is the movement of people on the streets in your region?”, etc.) in order to cross the information reported in the news with the information inserted and increase the database and thus help to inform more precisely and help to stop the spread of the disease. We decided by ReactJS system that it is a webApp.

In the middle of the this journey we had another idea for an app, and going through it we decided on the quiz. Finally, the team was well integrated from the beginning and we worked well together.