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Successful Models of Hackathons and Innovation Contests to Crowdsource Rapid Responses to COVID-19

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To help fighting the many adversarial effects that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, many initiatives supported by public, private and non-governmental organizations are crowdsourcing the development of solutions through hackathons and innovation contests. This article discusses the models and common aspects of two successful initiatives led by governmental institutions that used a crowdsourcing approach to foster solutions aiming at pandemic-related issues: the EUVsVirus (Europe) and the MPLabs COVID-19 Challenge (Brazil).

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    cover image Digital Government: Research and Practice
    Digital Government: Research and Practice  Volume 2, Issue 2
    COVID-19 Commentaries and Case Study
    April 2021
    119 pages
    EISSN:2639-0175
    DOI:10.1145/3442345
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    Published: 10 December 2020
    Online AM: 06 November 2020
    Accepted: 01 October 2020
    Revised: 01 October 2020
    Received: 01 August 2020
    Published in DGOV Volume 2, Issue 2

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