Pandemic

Let’s build a better world with a smaller footprint
14 February 2022
Businesses cannot succeed in societies that are failing. The urgency of fulfilling the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 is a global rally for climate action underpinned by systemic reform, social justice, and technology to help put humans and stewardship at the center of designing a better world.
Here’s how we can avoid an AI divide in health care
ITU News26 January 2022
Even before the world began to grapple with COVID19, many turned to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fast-track solutions for health-care challenges confronting patients, health workers, institutions and governments.
AI accelerates hybrid learning in Moscow
14 May 2021
COVID-19 has put the world on a steep learning curve – not least for university students.
How Citibeats is leveraging AI to inform policy
12 May 2021
As countries worldwide struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, their health and economic response policies need to reflect the shifting, often elusive, sentiments of society.
How US cities are using artificial intelligence to boost vaccine uptake
7 May 2021
US President Joe Biden recently announced a goal for 70 per cent of the adult US population to have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot by July 4.
How machine learning is powering collective pandemic intelligence
30 September 2020
As the world races to control the spread of COVID-19 and find a vaccine, what role can artificial intelligence play?
AI for Health: Join new ad-hoc group on digital health technologies to combat COVID-19
7 September 2020
A new ad-hoc group within the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health aims to establish best practices in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) at each lifecycle of a public health emergency. Participation is open to all interested parties.
COVID-19: China’s digital health strategies against the global pandemic
15 April 2020
Digital health technologies are critical tools in the ongoing fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: How tech is helping nurses
7 April 2020
Now more than ever, hospitals are under great stress, and the people bearing the brunt of this pandemic are the nurses and clinicians at the frontlines of patient care.
COVID-19: How mobile phone contact tracing can save lives – and preserve privacy
6 April 2020
Contact tracing is a key public health response to limit infectious disease outbreaks such as the global COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19: How Korea is using innovative technology and AI to flatten the curve
2 April 2020
The Republic of Korea has been successful so far in containing COVID-19 without shutting down its economy, even though schools, museums and gyms — places where large numbers of people might gather in an enclosed space — are closed.

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