COVIDxNOW
A Lead Initiative of the Empowering a Billion Women Foundation
Tools Used: Illustrator, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MailChimp
COVIDxNOW is a group of entrepreneurs, scientists, policy makers, and influencers founded by legendery entrepreneur Ingrid Vanderveldt and led by Courtney Bickert, the United Nations Representative for Blockchain. I joined COVIDxNOW as a way to contribute my skills during the pandemic and to learn from the influential leaders who were a part of the project.
My Impact
- Connected hundreds of leaders, scientists, doctors, and entrepreneurs during the pandemic
- Created and grew a community that met weekly for an entire year
- Helped as many people as possible!
The Team
- Ingrid V. - Founder
- Courtney B. - Executive Director
- Heather W. - EVP
- Alan U. - CTO
- Meredith D. - Web Design
- Daniel N. - Exec. Assistant
Journey Map
Community Website
The COVIDxNOW Community is centered around economic recovery during the pandemic. Our goal, from a technology perspective was to put together methods of collaboration and information sharing during the pandemic. We host a weekly community call with updates from community members, a community website where members can share contact information, post updates and watch recordings of previous calls.
My Role
My role was to select and implement technology to enable platform initiatives and fit our budget, while training key staff on how to work with the new technology, enabling them to work digitally and remotely during the pandemic. I was responsible for running and maintaining all IT assets including web properties, videos, social media, and email marketing.
Community Report
The Community Report was a summary published to report on the activities of COVIDxNOW, summarize the content that had been produced and start integrating social media into our platform, specifically YouTube.
Participatory Design
All aspects of the design encouraged community participation, from open sourcing all of our efforts to outreach on social media.
The data in the report was gathered through surveys, individual interviews, and polls during the community call, and data provided by the community on the COVIDxNOW Community Website. Then presented back to the community in the form of data visualizations and infographics.
"3 Things I want COVIDxNOW to do in 2021"
Live poll taken on the December 8th, 2020 COVIDxNOW Community Call.
The report was initially designed in Illustrator, prototyped in HTML, and impletemented in Wordpress