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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Create-regional-partnerships-and-coordinating-bodi"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Create regional partnerships and coordinating bodies."
url: "https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/strategies/create-regional-partnerships-and-coordinating-bodi"
summary: "Create regional partnerships and coordinating bodies. Governments or representative associations should establish formal and informal groups and coordinating bodies based on regional or geographic similarities,such as transportation corridors or shared geographic borders."
source: "The GovLab (coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# Create regional partnerships and coordinating bodies.

Create regional partnerships and coordinating bodies. Governments or representative associations should establish formal and informal groups and coordinating bodies based on regional or geographic similarities,such as transportation corridors or shared geographic borders.

- Timeframe: 3-6 Months (medium)
- Audience: Government Workers
- Type: Policy/Legislative/Regulatory, Partnerships, Capacity Building
- 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. Define regions based on geographic or regional factors.
2. Attempt to match regions with existing regional structures used in government functions such as administrative regions, public health regions, or disaster response regions.
3. Institute informal and formal opportunities for engagement as described in the recommendations above.

## Examples from around the world

1. [States of the European Union have agreed on common specifications and data sharing protocol to ensure that contact tracing apps from different countries can communicate. This ensures that as people travel within the Schengen area, the contact tracing app they use will communicate with others.](https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/ehealth/docs/modelling_mobilitydata_en.pdf)