Digital Technologies and the COVID- 19 pandemic Briefing & Learning Note 15.04, 2020 UN4Download
Leveraging digital technologies for social inclusion
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Africa’s digital solutions to tackle COVID-19
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DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO FIGHT COVID-19
2020 Data Protection Report CEDownload
COVID-19: Embracing digital government during the pandemic and beyond
"Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a vital role in promoting the health and safety of people and in keeping economies and societies working during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Digital government technologies either through information sharing or online services have kept governments and people connected during the outbreak. Digital technologies...
Digital contact tracing and surveillance during COVID-19. General and child-specific Ethical Issues
"The response to COVID-19 has seen an unprecedented rapid scaling up of technologies to support digital contact tracing and surveillance. Accessible, high-quality data, based on a foundation of widespread testing, are essential to support decision-makers in government and development and humanitarian agencies such as UNICEF to better understand the issues...
State Government COVID-19 Digital Inclusion Response
The global health pandemic has put a spotlight on digital inclusion. NDIA is documenting local government initiatives to encourage other local governments to address access to the internet (particularly at home), personal computers and tablets, and tech assistance. These initiatives are in addition to the FCC’s Keeping American’s Connected Pledge. Read...
Covid-19 hastened the digital shift with consequences for the ‘data divide’, wellbeing
Sometimes it can seem like we’ve uploaded our whole lives to the internet: bank accounts, social media posts, dating profiles, work emails – it’s all out there in that nebulous cloud of digital information that is the world wide web. The problems with this new digital way of life are...
Measuring Legislative Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Introducing the ParlAct and ParlTech Indexes
This research note introduces two novel indexes designed to measure legislative activity (ParlAct) and use of digital devices to maintain legislative functions (ParlTech) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also introduce a novel comprehensive dataset on the functioning of legislatures during a critical period of the pandemic,...
