Covid-19 Pandemic and Digital Public Awareness Platforms

What is it about?

The paper reviewed a number of public awareness platforms that have been recently launched in various parts of the world by policymakers and administrators with the aim to raise public knowledge about the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on the well-being of affected citizens, whether they are medical, socioeconomic, psychological and technological ones.

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Why is it important?

By relying on the content analysis of national digital public awareness and open data platforms, which were launched in seven different countries, the author of the paper has identified interesting trends, strategies and public awareness solutions on these platforms related to, namely generation of information on precaution measures, testing of symptoms, use of interactive guidelines and visualizations, information on financial and psychological support for affected population, precautions measures on the distribution of disinformation and fake news related to the effects of the Covid-19 crisis management and, finally, on interesting data-driven digital solutions to inform citizens about public sector actions and measures in t the area. This article is aimed to provide an analysis of the general trends in managing open data in the area, which could be useful for both e-government practitioners and academia in understanding the trends in launching related public awareness platforms all over the world and offer new agendas for further studies and hypotheses testing in this direction by other researchers. In this regard, it is interesting to elaborate and shed light on policy implications of the study for further developments and steps in managing the potential future pandemic crises, especially in regard to data governance, data preservation, retention and distribution and development of promising data-driven digital platforms in the area.

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