along a continuum of group cohesion

Call us Team ZC. We have members from India (where our project took off), China and Pakistan. And, extending to “the farthest geographical point on the Earth’s surface from India”, TEAM ZC even has a member from Chile — 7,500 kilometers or 10,900 miles away. This is just a tangential indication of how truly global we are, thanks to our lively presence and interactions on ResearchGate (RG), a social networking site with over 20 million researchers. The first person to sign up at covid19on.com was a Karachi-based researcher from RG. The pandemic united us. Covid19on.com was launched in December 2019 — months before governments worldwide began announcing lock-downs one after another. Back then, most of TEAM ZC members were part of TEAM 19. These two teams can be viewed along a continuum of group cohesion or synergic cohesion, as we are engaged in a project to digitalize a 1,000 newspaper articles.