COVIDWIRE
Curated bite-sized news summaries on Covid-19 in Indian languages
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Why
With the onset of the global pandemic - COVID19, another type of pandemic plagued the world - information. Being a new subject, people were hooked onto learning more about it. It proved to be very tricky, especially in the Indian context, with the advent of fake news, WhatsApp forwards and language barriers among other reasons.
What
We built a web app to deliver curated news in short summaries, translated in native Indian languages and scaled to 2900 daily users. Built a content pipeline to enable 110+ volunteers to work on the news pieces.
Who
Poobesh Gowtham - Cofounder
Sarigama Yerra - Cofounder
Abhijith Krishna - Product Design
Karunya Baskar - Illustrations
plus 110 awesome volunteers
▰▰▰ PRODUCT
An antidote for the information pandemic
With the onset of the global pandemic - COVID19, another type of pandemic plagued the world - information. Being a new subject, people were hooked onto learning more about it. It proved to be very tricky, especially in the Indian context, with the advent of fake news, WhatsApp forwards and language barriers among other reasons.
I initiated a volunteer-driven effort, to tackle this and CovidWire was born. We curated local and international news on COVID 19, summarised and translated them and made it accessible through a mobile web app.
Curate. Summarise. Translate. Share.
Consumer facing Webapp
We designed and built a PWA (Progressive Web APP) in an agile development model and distributed news pieces processed by our volunteers to our 2000+ daily users.
▰▰▰ DESIGN
Volunteer content platform
Along with the user-facing web app, we also designed and implemented the content creation and management platform for our 110+ volunteers. We utilised no-code and low-code solutions to create a responsive environment to coordinate our content efforts.
▰▰▰ TECH
With the onset of the global pandemic - COVID19, another type of pandemic plagued the world - information. Being a new subject, people were hooked onto learning more about it. It proved to be very tricky, especially in the Indian context, with the advent of fake news, WhatsApp forwards and language barriers among other reasons.
I initiated a volunteer-driven effort, to tackle this and CovidWire was born. We curated local and international news on COVID 19, summarised and translated them and made it accessible through a mobile web app.
▰▰▰ LAUNCH
Volunteer content platform
Along with the user-facing web app, we also designed and implemented the content creation and management platform for our 110+ volunteers. We utilised no-code and low-code solutions to create a responsive environment to coordinate our content efforts.
▰▰▰ RERSEARCH
With the onset of the global pandemic - COVID19, another type of pandemic plagued the world - information. Being a new subject, people were hooked onto learning more about it. It proved to be very tricky, especially in the Indian context, with the advent of fake news, WhatsApp forwards and language barriers among other reasons.
I initiated a volunteer-driven effort, to tackle this and CovidWire was born. We curated local and international news on COVID 19, summarised and translated them and made it accessible through a mobile web app.
