Open AccessReadily Available Digital Technologies in the Age of Pandemics
Author(s) -
Suchit Ahuja,
Arman Sadreddin,
Yolande E. Chan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of community informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-4441
DOI - 10.15353/joci.v17i.3613
Subject(s) - extant taxon , context (archaeology) , resilience (materials science) , pandemic , set (abstract data type) , crisis management , covid-19 , emerging technologies , exploratory research , process (computing) , knowledge management , business , process management , political science , data science , computer science , sociology , medicine , geography , artificial intelligence , anthropology , law , archaeology , pathology , biology , operating system , evolutionary biology , thermodynamics , programming language , physics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Digital technologies and information systems have played a pivotal role during the past SARS pandemic and continue to assist with the recovery process during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the technologies themselves have advanced significantly and allow ready access and ease of use to individuals, organizations, and communities. We focus on a set of such technologies – Readily Available Digital Technologies (RADT) – and show how they assist during various phases of management of the ongoing crisis. We utilize an existing crisis management framework and emphasize the role and impact of RADTs. Furthermore, we extend the crisis management framework to include a resilience phase and explore examples from extant academic and practitioner literature to demonstrate its applicability in the current context. We invite future researchers to build further on our exploratory framework and highlight its potential contributions.