What’s New in Civic Tech: Sweeping COVID-19 Data Platform Plus, Philadelphia announces new pilot projects that will be supported by the city’s innovation fund, the Harvard Kennedy School releases a new step-by-step RFP guide for local governments and more! Shutterstock Civic technologists have a new sweeping COVID-19 data platform, which can be found at global.health. To be more specific, the project is an open-access epidemiological platform that can be used to track and predict the spread of infectious diseases, a group that, of course, includes COVID-19. Currently, the platform features a data set that includes detailed information on more than 5 million anonymized cases from more than 100 countries.