Fletcher Professor Jette Steen Knudsen explains the responsibilities of Western retailers to the workers who make their garments as the coronavirus forces factories to shut down.
NBC Boston | Bhaskar Chakravorti is interviewed and expresses his thoughts on President Trump’s recommendation to inject disinfectants.
As the world raced to contain COVID-19, it effectively launched a necessary but costly experiment: Move all possible economic activity online to flatten the pandemic’s curve and save lives. But digitally recreating the economy-as-usual has its limits and the “Great Lockdown” comes with devastating economic costs.
The inaugural IDEA 2030 webinar features insights from Digital Planet’s Social Distance Readiness Benchmark, focusing on how easily countries can enter and exit lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
USA Today | Bhaskar Chakravorti states guidelines to reopen states are “a bad idea motivated by Trump’s political motives rather than a measured, data-driven public health strategy.”
Al Jazeera | CPJ says Trump’s attacks have been amplified during the coronavirus crisis, a time when unimpeded journalism is crucial.
A Social Distance Readiness analysis of 42 countries measuring the robustness of their digital platforms; resilience of internet infrastructure to traffic surges; proliferation of digital payments options and percentage of workforce able to telecommute.
Fletcher Professor of Cybersecurity Policy Josephine Wolff explains that while Zoom has made some mistakes, it’s owned up to them in the middle of an unprecedented time.
It is about time, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/WhatsApp), Sundar Pichai (Google/YouTube), Jack Dorsey (Twitter) and Zhang Yiming (TikTok) made some tough calls, much like what their own political leaders have done.
CBS News examines the strain on internet infrastructure due to increased remote work, highlighting the need for robust connectivity.
An interactive research report that indexes trust in the digital economy and its evolution across 90 economies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
