New America is maintaining a running list of all government open source projects responding to the novel Coronavirus.

The open source projects catalogued in the Pandemic Response Repository are powering more efficient and effective public sector responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Many governments are struggling to find the right solutions and to share technology and content they’ve developed with others in need. The solutions listed here are reusable, easily shared among agencies, municipalities and countries, and can be adapted to local needs. The repository will be updated daily based on research by our team and submissions from around the world. We have not undertaken an independent code review of each solution.

The Pandemic Response Repository is the first phase of a more comprehensive Open Source Framework researched and developed by New America to strengthen and modernize government institutions. Across the public sector, private sector, and civil society, there is growing momentum to create open source, digital public goods that can deliver broad benefits for society and be easily modified to meet the needs of different communities. This work is intended to help build that movement. The Pandemic Response Repository is a joint project of the Digital Impact and Governance Initiative (DIGI) and Public Interest Technology (PIT) teams at New America.

You’re presently looking at the Pandemic Response Repository GitHub (code) repository. Please visit the main page to view the project list online.

If you would like to suggest a new project be added to the collection, please use this Google form. If you have general questions about the project, send us an email at [email protected]. For more information on the contributing to the source code to the Pandemic Response Repository, see our source code repository for this website.

You will need Ruby ( > version 2.1.5 ). You may consider using a Ruby version manager such as rbenv or rvm to help ensure that Ruby version upgrades don’t mean all your gems will need to be rebuilt.

On OS X, you can use Homebrew to install Ruby in /usr/local/bin, which may require you to update your $PATH environment variable:

$ brew update
$ brew install ruby

To serve the site locally, using projects as the name of your new repository: Run each of the following steps to get the site up and running.

$ git clone [email protected]:newamericafoundation/pandemic-response-repository
$ cd projects
$ bundle install
$ bundle exec jekyll serve

You should be able to see the site at: http://localhost:4000/

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