Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis

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 ap...

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Published in:Data (Basel) 2021-10, Vol.6 (10), p.106
Main Authors: Tsinaraki, Chrisa, Mitton, Irena, Minghini, Marco, Micheli, Marina, Kotsev, Alexander, Hernandez Quiros, Lorena, Spinelli, Fabiano-Antonio, Dalla Benetta, Alessandro, Schade, Sven
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications programs
Contact tracing
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data collection
Datasets
GPS
Information sharing
Medical research
mobile apps
Mobile computing
Mobile operating systems
Pandemics
personal data
Privacy
Qualitative analysis
Stores
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2306-5729
2306-5729
DOI:10.3390/data6100106