Coronavirus: seven ways collective intelligence is tackling the pandemic

Advances in digital technologies have transformed what can be achieved through collective intelligence in recent years – connecting more of us, augmenting human intelligence with machine intelligence, and helping us to generate new insights from novel sources of data. It is particularly suited to addressing fast-evolving, complex global problems such as disease outbreaks.

Here are seven ways it is tackling the coronavirus pandemic:

1) Predicting and modelling outbreaks
2) Citizen science
3) Real-time monitoring and information
4) Social media mining projects
5) Serious games
6) Open source test kits
7) Sharing knowledge