Coronavirus Tech Handbook Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

Hey PH, We run Newspeak House, the main tech-for-good hub in the UK. We have an obsession with forecasting, so we saw the pandemic coming a couple of weeks before the story broke. It's clear that this is becoming a disaster on an unprecedented scale, and one that will not only cause a crisis in healthcare, but also widespread destitution. This can only be mitigated by a sophisticated and society-wide response. We realised that millions of skilled people across the world would be inspired to offer their help, but that without coordination this valuable energy would largely go to waste. We launched The Coronavirus Tech Handbook to help people find ways to use their skills effectively. It's grown very quickly, from a handful of links a few weeks ago to many thousands today, with an active community of editors and expert contributors. It covers everything from governance patterns for mutual aid groups, open source ventilator designs, advice for small businesses, data sharing efforts between charities, resources for people suddenly working remote and doing childcare at home, lists of hackathons and working groups, international comparisons of policy responses, and tools for educators having to move their practice online. If you have skills and want to help, read through the handbook and see what types of things people have been doing. If you have already been doing or making something, please put it in the handbook so that others don't waste time duplicating your work. Refer to it for your hackathons, when volunteering in your local community, and when your company is thinking about how it could help. And please leave each page better than when you found it. Stay safe everyone, and wash your hands!