COVID information commons archive

The COVID Information Commons (CIC) is an open website portal and
community to facilitate knowledge-sharing and collaboration across various
COVID research efforts, funded by the NSF Convergence
Accelerator and the  NSF Technology, Innovation
and Partnerships Directorate. The CIC serves as an open resource for
researchers, students, and decision-makers from academia, government,
not-for-profits and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to
leverage each other's research findings, and to accelerate the most
promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic. The CIC was developed as a collaborative proposal led by
the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, hosted by Columbia
University, in collaboration with the Midwest Big Data Innovation
Hub, South Big Data Innovation Hub, and West Big Data
Innovation Hub.  It was funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator
(NSF #2028999) in May  2020 and launched in July 2020. 
The initial focus of the CIC website was on the 723 NSF-funded COVID Rapid
Response Research (RAPID) projects funded in 2020. The CIC-E: COVID
Information Commons Extension for Pandemic Recovery project was proposed
and funded in 2021 (NSF #2139391) by the CIC project team with
the goal to increase researcher collaboration across NSF and NIH awardees
and with global collaborators, as we continue to combat the novel
coronavirus, and glean learnings for future uses of innovations developed
for COVID response and recovery, including potential insights which can be
leveraged for future pandemics. The CIC extension launched on June 30,
2022 increasing the corpus of awards from just NSF to include NIH-funded
COVID related awards, both present and past, through all funding vehicles,
in pertinent areas of COVID research, response and recovery. The
CIC-extension provides more opportunity for multi-agency and
multidisciplinary research collaboration as all the Principal
Investigators (PIs) for awards in the CIC are invited to present their
research and collaborate on CIC Research Lighting Talk Webinars and
Collaboration Sessions.