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Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis

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  • Chrisa Tsinaraki

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
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  • Irena Mitton

    (MITGIS, 52210 Rovinj, Croatia
    The work presented here was carried out by the authors for the JRC.)

  • Marco Minghini

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
    The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.)

  • Marina Micheli

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
    The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.)

  • Alexander Kotsev

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
    The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.)

  • Lorena Hernandez Quiros

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
    The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.)

  • Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli

    (GFT Italia SRL, 20139 Milano, Italy
    The work presented here was carried out by the authors for the JRC.)

  • Alessandro Dalla Benetta

    (Piksel SRL, 20126 Milano, Italy
    The work presented here was carried out by the authors for the JRC.)

  • Sven Schade

    (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
    The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.)

Abstract

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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  • Chrisa Tsinaraki & Irena Mitton & Marco Minghini & Marina Micheli & Alexander Kotsev & Lorena Hernandez Quiros & Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli & Alessandro Dalla Benetta & Sven Schade, 2021. "Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis," Data, MDPI, vol. 6(10), pages 1-11, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jdataj:v:6:y:2021:i:10:p:106-:d:651527
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