CORONA - QURATOR - PANQURA - a technology platform for more information transparency in times of crisis; subproject 4: AI-assisted provision of pandemic-related information in process contexts.

The current COVID 19 crisis shows that transparency and objectivity are key to managing a pandemic that poses unprecedented challenges to governments and societies worldwide. The targeted spread of misinformation or fraudulent offers of help further complicates this situation. The overall objective of the joint project is to meet this particular challenge with a decentralized technology platform for greater information transparency. It is aimed at citizens as well as experts from science and the media. The platform provides experts with AI-based tools for researching and evaluating pandemic-related information. They contribute to making secured knowledge and reputable information offers visible via the platform. At the same time, they can make transparent the criteria they use to evaluate information sources. The sub-project applied for here is aimed primarily at two target groups: on the one hand, citizens in their role as private individuals and, on the other hand, companies and other organizations whose business processes are affected by the pandemic. In the context of citizen information, the sub-project is intended to contribute to the more efficient transport of relevant information on the one hand and to enable an evaluation of the reliability of the information provided on the other. Companies should be given the opportunity to contextualize their processes with current pandemic information and also its reliability in order to be able to decide as early as possible on any necessary process adjustments.