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Second, we need to create open-source structures that allow national and sub-national level health systems to collect and share this precious data in a timely, privacy-preserving manner. Fragile health systems around the world have already been overwhelmed with the tsunami of demand that has arisen from the spread of COVID-19. Everyone racing to create their own solutions to problems negates the need for speed we have in this pandemic. An epidemic somewhere has the potential to become a pandemic everywhere. We need to share tools – both hardware and software – openly and understand that short term gains in one area of the world are meaningless if not shared with other areas that are battling this virus.

We propose forming a data collective: a conscious, coordinated effort by a group of organisations with expertise in gathering and using data in the charity sector. We want to make sure that people in charities, on the front line and in leadership positions have access to the information they need, in a timely fashion, in the easiest possible format to understand, with the clearest possible analysis of what it means for them.