The World Health Organization (WHO) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to create an app that helps health workers respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
Obviously, reaching a Chinese audience is important for an app like this. For now, though, it is accessible in China via the Apple App Store. Issues with Google prevent the Google Play Store app from being available there. However, the WHO is also exploring the options for releasing an Android version which will reach health workers in China.
So, the WHO has a Covid-19 interactive map which it calls a situation dashboard, designed to offer a daily update on the latest global numbers of Covid-19 cases. It’s also broken down by individual countries. Then there’s the WHO EIOS, that’s the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources Initiative, which is designed to work as a kind of early-warning system. Open-source information, like news articles and reports, can be used to identify and verify potential public health threats. The EIOS system already has an important job in managing, filtering and – perhaps most importantly – contextualizing information on health topics.
Of course, computers only get you so far. Frontline responders remain the most important link in the chain.
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