Global Pandemic Network

“ONE PLANET, ONE HEALTH: ADVOCATING FOR A CONVENTION ON PANDEMICS”

Paola Apollaro — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:45:32 +0000

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“New India? A case for urgent transfer of public health from state to concurrent list”

Uday Shankar, Simi Mehta, Shubham Pandey — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:58:13 +0000

The success of janata (public) curfew and the discipline demonstrated by the citizens of India during the nationwide lockdown has conveyed the message of citizen-government cooperation in the effort to contain the menace of coronavirus.
Maintaining social distancing and the need to stay at home during the prevailing health crisis is expected from the people to contain the spread of the virus. The state has rolled up its sleeves to provide rapid medical support with the support of all union and state departments…

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Digital Response to COVID-19

EU — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:07:22 +0000

The Digital Response to COVID-19 gives you access to a large resource database including open source software, websites, and platforms that are useful for public administrations, businesses, and citizens dealing with the ongoing crisis.

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Fighting COVID-19 through digital innovation and transformation

UNESCO — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:05:32 +0000

“In the midst of the global pandemic, digital technologies have captured our imagination for their potential to support us in the fight against COVID-19. Before the current COVID- health, education, social and economic crisis, the most visible uses of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, have been their applications in entertainment, in increasing productivity and convenience.”

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How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia

Yasheng Huang, Meicen Sun, and Yuze Sui — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:03:10 +0000

“East Asian countries have had striking success flattening the Covid-19 curve. The key is aggressive application of mobile contact-tracing technologies — either voluntary or mandatory — and a collectivist spirit that encourages a civic-minded embrace of and a more willing compliance with governments’ infection control efforts. These technologies work, but require privacy violations that western democracies may be unwilling to accept. Technologies that preserve privacy while permitting effective tracing may be part of the solution.”

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COVID-19 highlights ‘life and death’ stakes for greater digital cooperation

UN — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:01:47 +0000

“Managing the digital divide better, has become “a matter of life and death” for people unable to access essential healthcare information during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief has told a virtual high-level meeting on rapid technological change.”

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Applications of digital technology in COVID-19 pandemic planning and response

Sera Whitelaw, Mamas A Mamas, Eric Topol, Harriette G C Van Spall, — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:00:16 +0000

“With high transmissibility and no effective vaccine or therapy, COVID-19 is now a global pandemic. Government-coordinated efforts across the globe have focused on containment and mitigation, with varying degrees of success. Countries that have maintained low COVID-19 per-capita mortality rates appear to share strategies that include early surveillance, testing, contact tracing, and strict quarantine. The scale of coordination and data management required for effective implementation of these strategies has—in most successful countries—relied on adopting digital technology and integrating it into policy and health care. This Viewpoint provides a framework for the application of digital technologies in pandemic management and response, highlighting ways in which successful countries have adopted these technologies for pandemic planning, surveillance, testing, contact tracing, quarantine, and health care.”

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Digital tools for COVID-19 contact tracing

WHO — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:58:03 +0000

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Digital Transformation in the Age of COVID-19

OECD — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:55:26 +0000

BUILDING RESILIENCE AND BRIDGING DIVIDES

DIGITAL ECONOMY OUTLOOK 2020 SUPPLEMENT

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Live Learning Experience: Beyond the immediate response to the outbreak of COVID-19

UN — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:52:44 +0000

Digital Technologies and the COVID- 19 pandemic

Briefing & Learning Note

15.04, 2020

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