Digital Government: Research and Practice

In this article, we utilize VADER, a rule-based model, to perform sentiment analysis of tweets by President Donald Trump during the early spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across the United States, making it the worst-hit country in the world. We discover ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has developed to be more than a bio-crisis as global news has reported a sharp rise in xenophobia and discrimination in online and offline communities. This commentary discusses the deterrence policies and automated content ...

African Americans have faced health disparities in terms of access to health care and treatment of illnesses. The novel coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic exacerbates those disparities caused by limited access to medical care and healthy lifestyles, ...

The COVID-19 public health emergency caused widespread economic shutdown and unemployment. The resulting surge in Unemployment Insurance claims threatened to overwhelm the legacy systems state workforce agencies rely on to collect, process, and pay ...

The COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world in late 2019 and early 2020. As the pandemic spread, technologists joined forces with public health officials to develop apps to support COVID-19 response. Yet, for these technological solutions to benefit ...

This article considers the valorization of government interventions to support the economy in France; in particular, it provides a detailed geovisualization of emergency funds granted to companies. Transparency of the actions performed to cope with the ...

Managing the ongoing COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus) pandemic has presented both challenges and new opportunities for urban local body administrators. With the Indian government's Smart City mission taking firm roots in some of the Indian cities, the authors ...

Creating a public understanding of the dynamics of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, is vital for introducing restrictive regulations. Gathering diverse data responsibly and sharing it with experts and citizens in a timely manner is challenging. This ...

The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions of trust in many domains, including interpersonal relationships, social behaviours, technology, and interactions with institutions and information. This prompts the need to consider trust holistically when ...

In spring 2020, New York City became the acknowledged epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. To keep residents informed, Governor Cuomo conducted a streak of 111 daily press briefings reporting critical information about the status of ...

Unlike pandemics in the past, COVID-19 has hit us in the midst of the information age. We have built vast capabilities to collect and store data of any kind that can be analyzed in myriad ways to help us mitigate the impact of this catastrophic disease. ...

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, various public health measures have been implemented worldwide. In most countries, preschools and kindergartens closed down, visiting playgrounds and other public spaces was prohibited, and social-distancing ...

The novel coronavirus that causes the now well-known COVID-19 illness has affected the whole world as the number of daily reported cases has exceeded 250,000. The spread trend of the virus across the globe has varied from one country to another, mainly ...