id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-270721-81axdn0g Allam, Zaheer The Emergence of Voluntary Citizen Networks to Circumvent Urban Health Data Sharing Restrictions During Pandemics 2020-07-24 .txt text/plain 5164 209 48 In view of required immediate actions, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizen science concept have emerged, where people voluntarily share location and health status data to circumvent data sharing restrictions imposed upon corporations and governments. With all these, in the case of COVID-19, startups engaged in providing more insights are observed to access data from those sources, including airline ticketing and from governments of different countries, and with these, they are able to run simulation and predictive algorithms to come up with conclusions guiding policy orientations. Such were shared by BlueDot and Metabiota, some of the modern startups that use data, and through advanced technologies, such as natural language processing and machine learning, they were able to predict some of the geographical location that the virus would spread next from Wuhan, days before first cases were reported in those regions. On the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the Smart City Network: Universal Data Sharing Standards Coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Benefit Urban Health Monitoring and Management ./cache/cord-270721-81axdn0g.txt ./txt/cord-270721-81axdn0g.txt