Assessing the Quality of Covid-19 Open Data Portals

Open data portals can be used for several purposes, including transparency leverage, access to information, and decision-making support. Recently, the pandemic broke out in the new coronavirus, causing the whole world to suffer its effects. As a result, several countries, institutions, and research teams have worked to understand the behavior of this new virus. Since then, several open data portals have emerged that have set out to disseminate regional, national, and even international information about Covid-19 information. Therefore, it is known that open data resources, together with data-based methodologies, provide many opportunities to improve the response of different administrations, especially to the virus. We identified the variables and methodologies necessary to analyze the fundamental aspects of the quality of Covid-19’s open data portals and described the current aspects such as qualities, limitations, and difficulties found in these open data portals. © 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

Assessing the level of acceptance of a crowdsourcing solution to monitor infectious diseases propagation

This work presents a study for assessing the technology acceptance of a contact tracing app, also proposed by us, which is a hybrid crowdsensing application (opportunistic and participatory). The goal of the app is that users are notified if they were in contact with others infected. It also allows creating a heat map identifying streets, squares, and commercial locations to which contaminated users were, allowing more assertive hygiene actions and eliminating infectious disease outbreaks. Our methodology aimed on finding whether people would be willing to share their location, as well as their health issues related to COVID-19. It is composed by a survey for verifying the interest of the proposed application;the prototype of the application;and the use of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). We can see that the vast majority of respondents to the first survey were interested in using a contact tracking application, even though they need to share their location and report when they become infected. In addition, the proposed RISCOVID application proved to be accepted for use by participants in the second survey. © 2020 IEEE.