COVID-19 Digital Landscaping

A coordinated approach to digital investments is essential to quickly scaling access to time-sensitive data and information needed to inform an effective disease outbreak response. Without this critical alignment of funding to existing digital infrastructure, we risk deepening fragmentation of digital tools and data silos in a way that will hamper COVID-19 response efforts and undermine health systems.

USAID, in partnership with Digital Square, is landscaping digital health software platforms and documentation about country deployments of these tools, with a particular focus on those which could be adapted for use in COVID-19 response efforts.

This assessment will be conducted on a country-by-country basis and will seek to understand which tools are currently deployed at national, sub-national, and facility levels, which cadres of health workers have been trained to use these tools, and how these tools can be harnessed for COVID-19 response. Similarly, if you have been funded to support development or adaptation of a tool that has been deployed at scale, we are looking for existing documented information about this tool, which may likely be found in grey literature and/or project reports.  For example, if you have developed or supported a Ministry of Health to deploy a tool to support immunization registries, we are interested in learning more about this platform. Our goal is to update the Digital Health Atlas with this information, and more specifically to share these findings with funding institutions and Ministries of Health to support and inform COVID-19 response efforts.

You can submit existing landscapes and documentation about country deployment of these tools for inclusion here. The deadline for submission is August 21.