Summary of Updates
In recent months, communities across the globe have experimented with adapting smart city technologies in response to the outbreak of COVID-19. Digital solutions created to better manage public safety, transportation, energy use, and other aspects of urban infrastructure are now being used for epidemiological surveillance, public health communication, strategic planning, and policy monitoring and evaluation with the aim of mitigating the effects of the ongoing pandemic.
Given the virus’s long incubation period, digital contact tracing has emerged as a method of tracking, a...