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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Collect-disaggregated-data-at-strategic-locations-"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Collect disaggregated data at strategic locations and service delivery touchpoints."
url: "https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/strategies/collect-disaggregated-data-at-strategic-locations-"
summary: "Collect disaggregated data at strategic locations and service delivery touchpoints."
source: "The GovLab (coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# Collect disaggregated data at strategic locations and service delivery touchpoints.

Collect disaggregated data at strategic locations and service delivery touchpoints.

- Timeframe: 1-3 Months (immediate)
- Audience: Private Sector, Civil Society, Vulnerable Populations, Healthcare Providers, Essential Workers, Organized Civil Society, Nonprofits
- Type: Data, Technology/Innovation, Partnerships, Vulnerable Populations
- Recommendation: [Improve Data Management](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/recommendations/improve-data-management)
- Part of: [Smarter Crowdsourcing in the Age of Coronavirus](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/)

## Actions governments should take

1. Identify large-scale or high-volume sites serving vulnerable populations, including youth, racial minorities, women, and children.
2. Identify partners that you will need to engage to get access to these locations.
3. Identify key community leaders who can help you identify these sites or locations for collecting important information on vulnerable populations.
4. Standardize data collection processes to ensure they capture disaggregated data by sex, age, gender, ethnicity, race, education level, socioeconomic status, and other important demographic and social factors.

## Examples from around the world

1. [The city of Medellin, in Colombia, has created the Medellin me Cuida app to collect relevant data on its population. Citizens register as individuals or families, and businesses can also register. By collecting data such as address and the members of each household, and regularly screening users for symptoms, the app can give officials important contact tracing data and alert users when someone nearby has tested positive. By integrating services such as the city’s financial assistance and workers’ quarantine exemption programs into the app, Medellin has created incentives for people to register.](https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/medellin/diferencias-entre-plataformas-medellin-me-cuida-y-bogota-cuidadora-502506https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/medellin/diferencias-entre-plataformas-medellin-me-cuida-y-bogota-cuidadora-502506)