What makes you say the Coronavirus Tech Handbook has been successful? I assume it’s been useful to many people, but I’m interested in specifics: who’s made use of it, what projects have been helped by it, etc.
Most of this impact was created in the first month with 3.5 full time members of staff. I suggest the cost of this was about £7k. We got about 90k in grants so I am happy to acknowledge that quite a lot of money was spent on less impactful parts of the same project. Though equally, new technology has been built to better serve in the future. In the future, I think this could be replicated by volunteers and therefore more cheaply.
We have screenshots of doctors asking one another to learn how to split ventilator feeds, make more effective PPE and PPE being delivered using connections from the handbook.
There were tools that were made as a result of people viewing the handbook. A map for mutual aid groups, for instance which would let people see where groups were close to them
The largest community created by the site, is Doctors with over 1000 members worldwide. Within a week of that community being created there was a 30 page guide of coronavirus advice. I don’t understand why such a guide would have been created if it was easily available elsewhere.
These are good questions. I am interested in the answers too. I set up the Coronavirus Tech Handbook. I’m going to comment each point as its own comment.
What makes you say the Coronavirus Tech Handbook has been successful? I assume it’s been useful to many people, but I’m interested in specifics: who’s made use of it, what projects have been helped by it, etc.
The handbook has had over 600k views. It was seen through government and we have seen several similar handbooks built which resemble it. https://​​simpleanalytics.com/​​coronavirustechhandbook.com?start=2020-03-07&end=2020-06-07
Most of this impact was created in the first month with 3.5 full time members of staff. I suggest the cost of this was about £7k. We got about 90k in grants so I am happy to acknowledge that quite a lot of money was spent on less impactful parts of the same project. Though equally, new technology has been built to better serve in the future. In the future, I think this could be replicated by volunteers and therefore more cheaply.
We have screenshots of doctors asking one another to learn how to split ventilator feeds, make more effective PPE and PPE being delivered using connections from the handbook.
I would like there to have been better impact measurement
There were tools that were made as a result of people viewing the handbook. A map for mutual aid groups, for instance which would let people see where groups were close to them
The largest community created by the site, is Doctors with over 1000 members worldwide. Within a week of that community being created there was a 30 page guide of coronavirus advice. I don’t understand why such a guide would have been created if it was easily available elsewhere.
These are good questions. I am interested in the answers too. I set up the Coronavirus Tech Handbook. I’m going to comment each point as its own comment.