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Covid-19 in India: Prospect of Crowdsourcing to Handle Public Health Crisis

Gautam Kumar Ghosh*, Shanta Dutta, Malay Kumar Saha

Government of India with its mounted preventive intervention to contain wide-spread SARS Cov-2 outbreak,
additionally curiously reported in its official site the COVID-19 arrangement challenge with money prize up to
Rupees 1 lakhs declared so as to enable the residents with the correct data and further at getting contributions as to
people and organizations who have created advancements and imaginative arrangements, bioinformatics, datasets,
Apps for analysis and so on that can be utilized for reinforcing the battle against Corona. The study aimed at
understanding the prospect of crowdsourcing to handle the COVID-19 outbreak in India idea through secondary
data analysis. Integrative survey of scholastic writing on enrollment, selection, method and structure of chipping in
framework that incorporates the publicly supporting methodology concentrated remotely. Published articles, study
papers and media reports analyzed. The continuous activities by non-government division; and site measurements
shared by crowd sourcing groups give proof that crowd sourcing can be promising instrument in health for India.
However, crowdsourcing in public health field would require continued adoption through research on its efficacious
use and strict regulatory frame developed at the earliest.