Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
While working from home is an option for the digitally-connected, much of the U.S. and the rest of the world aren’t ready to support a remote workforce.
US States expanded telehealth, but 16 of them face challenges due to subpar broadband, limiting digital healthcare access.
Remote Working Can’t Last Forever: Bhaskar Chakravorti.
Digital Planet scored states on digital readiness and virus control (Rt change) from March 16 to May 13, 2020, focusing on remote work feasibility amid the pandemic.
Digitally ready states implementing strict social distancing reduced COVID-19 rates. Urban areas provided more opportunities for work, education, and interaction in a socially distant world.
The Coronavirus pandemic is likely to shift the economic landscape in meaningful ways, reshaping the dominant forces in markets and economies worldwide.
ICE’s international student ban is a politicized pandemic response that hurts America.
Using insights gathered from Digital Planet’s “Work from Home or Out of Work” report, Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses whether working from home allows employees to be more productive or not.
Bhaskar Chakravorti explains the mixed success of automated contact tracing experiments around the world and how this spells trouble for U.S. efforts to rein in COVID-19.
