| Coronavirus crisis: A digital policy overview - 06/04/2020 |
| Geneva Internet Platform |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Europe | Switzerland |
| In the wake of the corona virus outbreak, digital epidemiology is emerging fast. We are witnessing the involvement of major tech actors who are exploring and exploiting the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and other emerging technologies in predicting, monitoring, and preventing the adverse effects of the crisis.A number of tech companies and medical and scientific institutions worldwide put their faith into digital technologies - particularly AI - in an attempt to halt a steady increase in the number of people and countries affected by the corona virus. China’s top tech giants have opened their AI and cloud computing solutions to researchers for free to use the full potential of these technologies to predict the course of disease development and find a vaccine for the virus. |
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Source Link Keywords: Digital Policy, Cloud computing, Digital economy |