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Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis

by
Chrisa Tsinaraki
1,†,
Irena Mitton
2,‡,
Marco Minghini
1,†,
Marina Micheli
1,†,
Alexander Kotsev
1,†,
Lorena Hernandez Quiros
1,†,
Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli
3,‡,
Alessandro Dalla Benetta
4,‡ and
Sven Schade
1,*,†
1
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, 21027 Ispra, Italy
2
MITGIS, 52210 Rovinj, Croatia
3
GFT Italia SRL, 20139 Milano, Italy
4
Piksel SRL, 20126 Milano, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
‡
The work presented here was carried out by the authors for the JRC.
Data 2021, 6(10), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100106
Submission received: 24 August 2021 / Revised: 23 September 2021 / Accepted: 30 September 2021 / Published: 8 October 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue A European Approach to the Establishment of Data Spaces)
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Abstract

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.
Keywords: mobile apps; COVID-19; personal data; privacy; contact tracing; GPS; bluetooth; geographic coverage; app store; Google Play mobile apps; COVID-19; personal data; privacy; contact tracing; GPS; bluetooth; geographic coverage; app store; Google Play

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Tsinaraki, C.; Mitton, I.; Minghini, M.; Micheli, M.; Kotsev, A.; Hernandez Quiros, L.; Spinelli, F.-A.; Dalla Benetta, A.; Schade, S. Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis. Data 2021, 6, 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100106

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Tsinaraki C, Mitton I, Minghini M, Micheli M, Kotsev A, Hernandez Quiros L, Spinelli F-A, Dalla Benetta A, Schade S. Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis. Data. 2021; 6(10):106. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100106

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Tsinaraki, Chrisa, Irena Mitton, Marco Minghini, Marina Micheli, Alexander Kotsev, Lorena Hernandez Quiros, Fabiano-Antonio Spinelli, Alessandro Dalla Benetta, and Sven Schade. 2021. "Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis" Data 6, no. 10: 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100106

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Tsinaraki, C., Mitton, I., Minghini, M., Micheli, M., Kotsev, A., Hernandez Quiros, L., Spinelli, F.-A., Dalla Benetta, A., & Schade, S. (2021). Mobile Apps to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis. Data, 6(10), 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6100106

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