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Chan, Arman Sadreddin, Suchit Ahuja</li><li class="date">Sep 29, 2020</li> </ul> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246im_/https://counter.theconversation.com/content/144449/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-advanced" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important">Amid the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01953-x">horrific public health and economic fallout from a fast-moving pandemic</a>, a more positive phenomenon is playing out: COVID-19 has provided opportunities to businesses, universities and communities to become hothouses of innovation.</p> <p>Around the world, digital technologies are driving high-impact interventions. Community and public health leaders are handling time-sensitive tasks and meeting pressing needs with technologies that are affordable and inclusive, and don’t require much technical knowledge.</p> <div class="ad"> <div id="div-gpt-ad-BOX_C1-0005"> <script type="text/javascript"> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-BOX_C1-0005'); }); </script> <noscript> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/5978/eof.gcn&t=item%253d11cc6c6e_2c53_4b44_9a9d_5018c8cc4b90%26pos%253dBOX_C1%26Topic%253dCOVID_19%252cCitizen_Services%252cCloud_and_Infrastructure%252cCollaboration_Tools%252cMobile%252cTrending&sz=640x481| 1x1| 300x250&tile=5&c=123456789" target="_blank"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246im_/https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/5978/eof.gcn&t=item%253d11cc6c6e_2c53_4b44_9a9d_5018c8cc4b90%26pos%253dBOX_C1%26Topic%253dCOVID_19%252cCitizen_Services%252cCloud_and_Infrastructure%252cCollaboration_Tools%252cMobile%252cTrending&sz=640x481| 1x1| 300x250&tile=5&c=123456789" border="0" alt=""/> </a> </noscript> </div> </div> <br/> <p>Our research reveals the outsized impact of inexpensive, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://smith.queensu.ca/insight/content/lightweight-digital-tech-can-do-heavy-lifting-when-disaster-strikes.php">readily available digital technologies</a>. In the midst of a maelstrom, these technologies — among them social media, mobile apps, analytics and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-cloud-computing-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-cloud/">cloud computing</a> — help communities cope with the pandemic and learn crucial lessons.</p> <p>To gauge how this potential is playing out, our research team looked at how communities incorporate readily available digital technologies in their responses to disasters.</p> <p><strong>Community potential</strong></p> <p>As a starting point, we used a model of crisis management developed in 1988 by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://mitroff.net/">organizational theorist Ian Mitroff</a>. The model has five phases:</p> <ol> <li>Signal detection to identify warning signs.</li> <li>Probing and prevention to actively search and reduce risk factors.</li> <li>Damage containment to limit its spread.</li> <li>Recovery to normal operations.</li> <li>Learning to glean actionable insights to apply to the next incident.</li> </ol> <p>Although this model was developed for organizations dealing with crises, it is applicable to communities under duress and has been used to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://sprott.carleton.ca/2020/sprott-business-insights-crisis-management/">analyze organizational responses to the current pandemic</a>.</p> <p>Our research showed that readily available digital technologies can be deployed effectively during each phase of a crisis.</p> <p><strong>Phase 1: Signal detection. </strong>Being able to identify potential threats from rivers of data is no easy task. Readily available digital technologies such as social media and mobile apps are useful for signal detection. They offer connectivity any time and anywhere, and allow for rapid sharing and transmission of information.</p> <p>New Zealand, for example, has been exploring an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/20759">early warning system for landslides</a> based on both internet-of-things sensors and digital transmission through social media channels such as Twitter.</p> <p><strong>Phase 2: Prevention and preparation. </strong>Readily available digital technologies such as cloud computing and analytics enable remote and decentralized activities to support training and simulations that heighten community preparedness. The Canadian government, for example, has developed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-pandemic-app-ontario-1.5670239">the COVID Alert app for mobile devices</a> that will tell users whether they have been near someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 during the previous two weeks.</p> <p><strong>Phase 3: Containment. </strong>Although crises cannot always be averted, they can be contained. Big data analytics can isolate hot spots and “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-superspreading-events-drive-most-covid-19-spread1/">superspreaders</a>,” limiting exposure of larger populations to the virus. Taiwan implemented <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.techuk.org/insights/news/item/17187-how-taiwan-used-tech-to-fight-covid-19">active surveillance and screening systems</a> to quickly react to COVID-19 cases and implement measures to control its spread.</p> <p><strong>Phase 4: Recovery. </strong>Social capital, personal and community networks and shared post-crisis communication are essential factors for the recovery process. Readily available digital technologies can help a community get back on its feet by enabling people to share experiences and resource information.</p> <p>For example, residents of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, have experienced the pandemic, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-flood-damage-1.5673962">flooding</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://srd.web.alberta.ca/fort-mcmurray-area-update/all">the threat of wildfires</a>. As part of the response, the provincial government offers northern Alberta residents <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page15494.aspx">virtual addiction treatment support via Zoom videoconferencing</a>.</p> <p>During recovery, it is also important to foster equity to avoid a privileged set of community members receiving preferential services. To address this need, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://str.sg/Jpne">anti-hoarding apps</a> for personal protective equipment and apps that promote <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113246/https://www.volunteerlocal.com/">volunteerism</a> can prove useful.</p> <p><strong>Phase 5: Learning. </strong>It is usually difficult for communities to gather knowledge on recovery and renewal from multiple sources. 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