Digital Square recognizes a coordinated approach to digital investments is essential to quickly scale access to time-sensitive data and information needed to inform an effective disease outbreak response.
Without this critical alignment of funding to existing digital health infrastructure, there is a risk of deepening fragmentation of digital tools and data silos that could hamper COVID-19 response efforts and undermine health systems. As the world learned during the West Africa Ebola outbreak response, prioritizing the reuse and adaptation of existing digital tools is vital to quickly scale access to time-sensitive disease information and data. The USAID-funded Map & Match project helps countries, donors, implementing partners, and the global digital health community at large to leverage and adapt existing digital tools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resources
Map & Match Executive Summary
The Map & Match Executive Summary provides a brief account of the purpose and outputs of this work. It includes a list of resources produced by the Map & Match research team.
Map & Match Data Sets
Phase 1 Data
Digital Square compiled these data through an extensive desk review of about 750 documents and websites to capture 2,910 tool deployments across 135 countries.
Phase 2 Data
In phase 2, Digital Square extracted phase 1 data for the 22 Map & Match countries, improved the data model, updated use cases to better align with other stakeholders, and expanded and validated this information through surveys and interviews with the global goods community and national stakeholders. The Phase 2 data set provides more detailed and validated data for the 22 Map & Match countries.
The Data sets
For an excel file of the complete data set, please click on the “Full Data Set” button below. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) updated this data set in April 2022 to standardize it across both phase 1 and phase 2 data. In this data set, both phase 1 and phase 2 data are merged into one sheet, though data are still identified by the collection phase. The data set has also been further cleaned for easier analysis, which includes combining all surveillance-related use cases into a single use case and cleaning the license type. A full mapping of changes can be found in the "Start Here" sheet in the data set.
If you would prefer to work with the original data set, click on the "Archival Data Set” button below.
Digital Applications and Tools Across an Epidemiological Curve (DATEC)
The Digital Applications and Tools Across an Epidemiological Curve (DATEC) is a strategic framework for governments, investors, implementing organizations, and the digital health community at-large to better understand how existing digital tools can be adapted and used during different phases of an outbreak. This framework is meant to highlight how digital technologies, which should already be present in a country, can most strategically be leveraged to augment response during an epidemic and/or pandemic.
Global good adaptations across use cases
Digital Pandemic Preparedness (DPP) Assessment Tool
The Digital Pandemic Preparedness (DPP) Assessment Tool aims to provide a systematic methodology to identify needs for digital tools that integrate with countries’ existing digital ecosystem, while modernizing their overall pandemic preparedness.
Understanding scale of digital health tools
This document provides a framework and triangulation tool to measure scale of digital deployments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Map & Match survey tools
The Map & Match research team developed a survey tool for data collection, coded in ODK and hosted on Kobo Toolbox. It was designed to help guide respondents through two scenarios:
Survey respondent knew about one or more tools in just one country ('Many tools, One Country').
Survey respondent knew about one tool in many countries ('One tool, Many Countries).
These two methods of answering the survey are delineated by the tabs in the 'readable' Excel sheet. We have also provided the ODK tool, which includes all the answer choices and formatting, for future adaptation and use.
Find the ‘readable’ Excel sheet here.
Find the ODK tool here.
Digital tools supporting vaccine deployment
This document (included as an Annex to the Map & Match country briefs illustrates how digital tools can support activities aligned to five use cases focused on vaccines.
For more information on how global goods are supporting COVID-19 vaccine introduction, visit the Digital Square wiki here.
Country Briefs
Digital Square developed 22 country briefs to highlight existing digital tools deployed in-country, which of those tools have already been adapted for COVID-19, and opportunities to adapt currently deployed tools for COVID-19 use cases including vaccine planning, delivery, and monitoring. These briefs reflect data collected via a desk review, surveys, and in many cases, key informant interviews with country Ministries of Health.
Digital Square recognizes that data may not be fully up-to-date and some tools may be excluded in the dataset. If a tool is missing, please share the information about the tool’s deployment to the WHO Digital Health Atlas (DHA). Digital Square is working with WHO and other partners to update Map & Match data to the DHA.
Webinars/Videos
Find the presentation slides here.
Find the presentation slides here.
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