Digital Innovation for Pandemics: Concepts, Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities [Paperback]

This book presents the potential of digital responses to pandemics including COVID-19. It explores new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provides an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examines digital solutions developed to manage the crisis.

Dr. Jasleen Kaur is an Associate Professor of computer science at P P Savani University, Surat, Gujarat, India.

Navjot Sidhu is a doctoral student of computer science and engineering at Inder Kumar Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

A pandemic does not only bring health concerns for society but also significantly affects individuals and government and business operations. Recently, COVID-19 has substantially hampered conventional businesses and organizations worldwide. Digital technology can help achieve business continuity and overcome challenges caused by pandemic situations. Digital innovation is the application of digital technology to existing business problems. Ideas such as digital transformation and digitization are closely related to digital innovation. In this pandemic period, many businesses recognize that they need to transform, innovate, and adopt new technologies to stay competitive. However, digital transformation is an inherently complex process, and the time pressure to adopt quickly may result in further complexities for organizations in fostering digital technologies.

Digital Innovations for Pandemics: Concepts, Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities presents the potential of digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provides an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examines digital solutions developed to manage the crisis. Examining how informatiolS.