Open, bottom-up distribution requests
Manufacturers and suppliers may have stock but lack oversight of where it is needed.
Frontline staff should be able to highlight needs and make requests in a bottom-up way which might be supplied by smaller purchase orders to complement top-down logistics.
Allows frontline health staff to notify of PPE shortgages, compile those requests to a database with geolocation. Publish open data of the requests and status (met or needed) to allow market to deliver and inform others of opportunties to produce solutions (could be manufactureres looking to pivot to new sector or 3D printed visor components etc). Same data can be used by others to understand the issues and raise awareness to find solutions to non logistical aspects ie stock hoarding
- Media agency will spread word of platform, testing in Yorkshire to frontline workers to tweet their needs
- Bot watches Twitter
and facebookfor key hash tags. Facebook/Instgram have no open access to posts. - Bot responds with webform having checked request contains postcode with NHS premises (& care homes?)
- User fills in simple webform
- Webform published to database and front end with map and request details
- Request matched with supply, enable purchase order to be made, thank all concerned
We're designing and building this in the open. Please contribute.
All data involved will be openly created, collected and maintained. Here's an Open Data Institute Guide to Collaborative Data Maintenance.
- Katz Kiely
- Dominic Humphrey
- Tom Russell
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