Relevant Aspects for Sustainable Open Source Pandemic Apps and Platform Deployment with Focus on Community Building.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 283: 186-193, 2021 Sep 21.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1430675
ABSTRACT
The global COVID-19 pandemic revealed the necessity for mobile and web-based solutions for a variety of medical processes, e.g., individual risk calculation, communication of health information and contact tracing. Many such solutions are provided in form of open source software. However, there are major obstacles to the sustainable long-term continuation of such projects. As the topic of sustainability strategies is complex, a classification would be useful to help new projects to identify relevant sustainability factors. Based on a literature review a classification for long-term success of open source software was created. This paper presents a classification focusing on five unique categories (1) structural decision, (2) revenue generation, (3) user focus, (4) openness and (5) community building. It was developed within the NUM-COMPASS project, focusing content-wise on pandemic apps and structure-wise on open-source provision. We provide some insights into the community building dimension by discussing factors that go into building sustainable communities.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mobile Applications
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
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Health Services Research
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
SHTI210559
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