Research report of the Working Group on Epidemic Management
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
Foreword
Executive Summary
1 Background
     1.1 Overview of COVID-19
     1.2 Strategies for Responding to New Infectious Diseases: PI and NPI
     1.3 ICT’s Contribution to the Infectious Disease Response
     1.4 Framework for Response to Future Pandemics
2 Global Response Strategies and their Effectiveness
     2.1 COVID-19 Response Strategies of Countries in North America, Europe/ Asia/ Africa and Their Impact
          2.1.1 Comparison of COVID-19 responses by country
          2.1.2 Mexico’s response strategy
          2.1.3 United States’s response strategy
          2.1.4 Germany’s response strategy
          2.1.5 Spain´s response strategy
          2.1.6 Sweden’s response strategy
          2.1.7 United Kingdom’s response strategy
          2.1.8 China’s response strategy
          2.1.9 India’s response strategy
          2.1.10 Japan’s response strategy
          2.1.11 Republic of Korea’s response strategy
          2.1.12 Malaysia’s response strategy
          2.1.13 Kenya’s response strategy
          2.1.14 Liberia’s response strategy
          2.1.15 Mauritius’ response strategy
     2.2 Role of International Organizations
          2.2.1 COVID-19 response of the United Nations
          2.2.2 Vaccine distribution efforts of international organizations
          2.2.3 ITU’s contribution to the COVID-19 response
          2.2.4 UNESCO’s contribution to the COVID-19 response
          2.2.5 The CoMo Consortium’s COVID-19 modelling support for LMICs
          2.2.6 UN Global Pulse’s COVID-19 modelling of refugee and internally-displaced-person (IDP) settlements
3 Role of ICT in COVID-19 Management
     3.1 Importance of ICT Responses to New Infectious Diseases
     3.2 Examples of ICT-based Responses to COVID-19
          3.2.1 Digital Epidemiological Surveillance
          3.2.2 Rapid case identification
          3.2.3 Interruption of community transmission
          3.2.4 Public service delivery, communication and socio-economic engagement
          3.2.5 Clinical care
          3.2.6 Pharmaceutical intervention
4 Key Insights
     4.1 Preparedness and Rapid Response for Socio-Economic Resilience
     4.2 Growing Role of ICT in Disease Response
     4.3 Importance of ICT Infrastructure and Legal System in the Disease Response
     4.4 Heightened International Coordination in Response to Future Pandemics
5 Considerations / Conclusions
     5.1 Enabling Environment: Flexible Regulation, Policy to Foster ICT
     5.2 ICT to Prevent Pandemics: Pre-emptive Investment
     5.3 Enhancing Global Cooperation
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