Sustainable digital society

Research Domain

Using mobile phone data to fight epidemics

« Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given rise to a new kind of epidemiology: The digital epidemiology era » [1]. In a world that is more interconnected than ever, through the movement of people and goods, epidemic outbreaks represent an important healthcare challenge. Improved social and spatial mobility has made increasingly easy the geographic dissemination of diseases. Newly emerging pathogens can appear and spread rapidly, and with them the potential for global pandemics as well, as highlighted by the recent outbreaks of Ebola virus, Zika virus, MERS Coronavirus, and others.
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How digital technology is supporting informal employment in Africa

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Continuing education standing the test of its digitalisation

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Counting our steps: what do we get out of it?

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Selling one’s behavioral data: an impossible market?

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Understanding of algorithms

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Federating Platforms with Linked Data

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