5 tactics for data leaders during the pandemic
As the initial wave of the pandemic plateaus, data leaders have time to refresh the data strategy and define tangible steps to ensure data quality, reduce time to get actionable insights, share data with external stakeholders and increase data literacy.
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
The debates about reimagining existing law enforcement practices must include a discussion about police surveillance because technology cannot address the deeper issues of race, power and privacy that lie at the heart of modern-day policing.
Workplaces are turning to devices to monitor social distancing, but does the tech respect privacy?
Organizations, eager to limit liability for employees and customers, are considering a variety of emerging technologies for limiting pandemic spread.
Researchers raise concerns with differential privacy use on census data
By focusing on mortality rates among racial and ethnic minorities, Penn State researchers found that the privacy-enhancing data technique caused undercounting in rural areas and overcounting in cities.
Smart cities can help us manage post-COVID life, but they’ll need trust as well as tech
To avoid the perils of individual-level monitoring systems, cities must focus on how to leverage technology that enables the collection, analysis and reporting of data while protecting privacy.
COVID dashboard helps state and local leaders plan for reopening
Maps and red-yellow-green indicators for key indicators give decision-makers a structured understanding of how a state or county is performing.
Tracking COVID in homeless populations
An app that helps volunteers count of homeless populations has been adapted to perform health and wellness checks on people experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic.
How Delaware locks down corrections data
To secure criminal, medical and financial data for about 4,500 inmates across several facilities, the Delaware Department of Correction relies on a solid data protection strategy.
Model predicts how long COVID lasts on surfaces
Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has developed a predictive modeling tool that shows how fast SARS-CoV-2 will decay on hard surfaces under a range of temperature and humidity conditions.
AI tool searches thousands of scientific papers to guide researchers to coronavirus insights
COVIDScholar includes tools that pick up subtle clues like similar drugs or research methodologies to recommend relevant research to scientists, saving them valuable time.
NIH lab mines GSA's cloud, analytics know-how
To modernize IT operations, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will tap into GSA's Centers of Excellence team of cloud adoption, data and analytics experts.
As coronavirus strikes, crucial data in electronic health records hard to harvest
Pooling data from the digital records systems in thousands of hospitals has proved a technical nightmare, largely because software built by rival technology firms often cannot retrieve and share information to help doctors judge which coronavirus treatments are helping patients recover.
Contact tracing with a technology twist
To supplement the thousands of frontline public health workers required for contact tracing, some governments are considering an smartphone-based approach.
Reopening means contact tracing. Many states aren't ready.
With no national plan and scant federal dollars on the horizon, states are funding their own contact-tracing initiatives for what experts predict will be a massive undertaking lasting 18 months to two years, until a vaccine is developed.
4 ways to deliver better citizen search experience
As many citizen interactions start on state and local government websites, powerful and accurate search features ensure citizens can quickly and effectively access the exact information they need.
COVIDScholar uncovers nonobvious insights in virus research
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have built a text-mining tool that uses natural language processing to not only scan and search research papers on COVID-19 but also help identify connections that may not be readily apparent.
Public coronavirus data varies widely between states
While most states made county- and ZIP code-level information available soon after they began reporting cases, some have hesitated to localize data further because of privacy concerns.
Marines' future: Fewer tanks, more resilient IT
The Marine Corps wants future-proof information technologies that can survive and perform tasks like data analytics uninterrupted in remote, contested environments.
The big data challenge: How to improve time-to-insight
With parallel processing, it’s possible to reset the analytics paradigm to deliver spatiotemporal-based insights at the speed of curiosity.
Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control -- but also threatens privacy
The pandemic is confronting Americans with important questions about how much and what kinds of surveillance and tracking to accept in support of better health, as well as a revitalized economy.
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