Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-21-2021
Publication Title
C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech
Volume
June 2021
First Page
1
Last Page
14
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which began in late 2019, brought unprecedented impact to healthcare, the economy, and social structure, and infrastructures experienced breakdowns in the initial phase. Demands in social and material needs surged, and they could not be met solely by unprepared infrastructures. Although local communities complemented them in previous disasters, physical distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus undermined human connection, and local communities had to come up with novel ways to provide support. To develop insights from such adaptations of local communities, we explored civic activities for immediate disaster relief in multiple local communities across the United States and interviewed civic initiative organizers and attendees. In this paper, we articulate our findings into pattern language, a schema of reusable solutions for recurring problems. We present two patterns for community-based disaster recovery and discuss the effectiveness of codifying civic activities for disaster relief into patterns.
Recommended Citation
Jo, Jeongwon; Knearem, Tiffany; Tsai, Chun-Hua; and Carroll, John M., "COVID-19 Kindness: Patterns of Neighborly Cooperation during a Global Pandemic" (2021). Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications. 141.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/isqafacpub/141
Comments
© {Authors | ACM} {2021}. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in {C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech},
https://doi.org/10.1145/3461564.3461587