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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Collaborate-with-private-and-public-sector-actors-"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Collaborate with private and public-sector actors that have large membership across jurisdictions."
url: "https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/strategies/collaborate-with-private-and-public-sector-actors-"
summary: "Collaborate with private and public-sector actors that have large membership across jurisdictions. Governments should actively seek partnerships with businesses and organizations (e.g. unions) that have large numbers of employees or members based in various regions/states within the country. These businesses and organizations may be able to support interjurisdictional coordination."
source: "The GovLab (coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org)"
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# Collaborate with private and public-sector actors that have large membership across jurisdictions.

Collaborate with private and public-sector actors that have large membership across jurisdictions. Governments should actively seek partnerships with businesses and organizations (e.g. unions) that have large numbers of employees or members based in various regions/states within the country. These businesses and organizations may be able to support interjurisdictional coordination.

- Timeframe: 1-3 Months (immediate)
- Audience: Private Sector, Academia, Healthcare Providers, Government Workers, Organized Civil Society, Nonprofits
- Type: Partnerships
- Recommendation: [Interjurisdictional Coordination](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/recommendations/interjurisdictional-coordination)
- Part of: [Smarter Crowdsourcing in the Age of Coronavirus](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/)

## Actions governments should take

1. Develop criterion for inclusion in the group of large businesses and organizations (e.g. number of employees - over 100K - disaggregated by location and geographic spread)
2. Develop strict participation criteria, outlining privacy expectations and other security and ethics concerns.
3. Enlist and train representatives from these organizations and businesses as contact tracers who can report into the existing contact tracing platforms, but who will work specifically with their affiliate organization or business and its employees or members.

## Examples from around the world

1. [Through a presidential COVID-19 task force, the states of Abuja, Kano and Lagos adopted a comprehensive multisectoral approach to coordinate actions to combat the spread of COVID-19.](https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332039/WHO-2019-nCoV-Urban_preparedness-2020.1-spa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)