Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a multi-faceted global crisis, which triggered the diverse and quickly emerging use of old and new digital tools. We have developed a multi-channel approach for the monitoring and analysis of a subset of such tools, the COVID-19 related mobile applications (apps). Our ap...
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| author | Chrisa Tsinaraki Irena Mitton Marco Minghini Marina Micheli Alexander Kotsev Lorena Hernandez Quiros Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli Alessandro Dalla Benetta Sven Schade |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic led to a multi-faceted global crisis, which triggered the diverse and quickly emerging use of old and new digital tools. We have developed a multi-channel approach for the monitoring and analysis of a subset of such tools, the COVID-19 related mobile applications (apps). Our approach builds on the information available in the two most prominent app stores (i.e., Google Play for Android-powered devices and Apple’s App Store for iOS-powered devices), as well as on relevant tweets and digital media outlets. The dataset presented here is one of the outcomes of this approach, uses the content of the app stores and enriches it, providing aggregated information about 837 mobile apps published across the world to fight the COVID-19 crisis. This information includes: (a) information available in the mobile app stores between 20 April 2020 and 2 August 2020; (b) complementary information obtained from manual analysis performed until mid-September 2020; and (c) status information about app availability on 28 February 2021, when we last collected data from the mobile app stores. We highlight our findings with a series of descriptives, which depict both the activities in the app stores and the qualitative information that was revealed by the manual analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb7986ef25c94f57b3184dbff865035e2023-11-22T17:55:39ZengMDPI AGData2306-57292021-10-0161010610.3390/data6100106Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 CrisisChrisa Tsinaraki0Irena Mitton1Marco Minghini2Marina Micheli3Alexander Kotsev4Lorena Hernandez Quiros5Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli6Alessandro Dalla Benetta7Sven Schade8Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyMITGIS, 52210 Rovinj, CroatiaJoint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyJoint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyJoint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyJoint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyGFT Italia SRL, 20139 Milano, ItalyPiksel SRL, 20126 Milano, ItalyJoint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, ItalyThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a multi-faceted global crisis, which triggered the diverse and quickly emerging use of old and new digital tools. We have developed a multi-channel approach for the monitoring and analysis of a subset of such tools, the COVID-19 related mobile applications (apps). Our approach builds on the information available in the two most prominent app stores (i.e., Google Play for Android-powered devices and Apple’s App Store for iOS-powered devices), as well as on relevant tweets and digital media outlets. The dataset presented here is one of the outcomes of this approach, uses the content of the app stores and enriches it, providing aggregated information about 837 mobile apps published across the world to fight the COVID-19 crisis. This information includes: (a) information available in the mobile app stores between 20 April 2020 and 2 August 2020; (b) complementary information obtained from manual analysis performed until mid-September 2020; and (c) status information about app availability on 28 February 2021, when we last collected data from the mobile app stores. We highlight our findings with a series of descriptives, which depict both the activities in the app stores and the qualitative information that was revealed by the manual analysis.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/6/10/106mobile appsCOVID-19personal dataprivacycontact tracingGPS |
| spellingShingle | Chrisa Tsinaraki Irena Mitton Marco Minghini Marina Micheli Alexander Kotsev Lorena Hernandez Quiros Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli Alessandro Dalla Benetta Sven Schade Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis Data mobile apps COVID-19 personal data privacy contact tracing GPS |
| title | Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis |
| title_full | Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis |
| title_fullStr | Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis |
| title_short | Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis |
| title_sort | mobile apps to fight the covid 19 crisis |
| topic | mobile apps COVID-19 personal data privacy contact tracing GPS |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/6/10/106 |
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