Leveraging the Digital Tracing Alert in Virus Fight: The Impact of COVID-19 Cell Broadcast on Population Movement

IF 5 3区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Anindya Ghose, Heeseung Andrew Lee, Wonseok Oh, Yoonseock Son
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Digital tracing alerts (DTAs) have emerged as effective means to share information with agility in responding to disaster outbreaks. Governments are able to instantaneously coordinate the available information to provide information related to the disaster and promote preventive actions. However, despite the opportunities granted by these innovative technologies in managing disasters, privacy concerns can arise in regard to how much of individuals’ private information should be collected and disclosed. With these considerations, we examine the extent to which instant digital tracing alerts and the information included in the alerts affect people’s actions toward disaster management in the context of South Korea. Our results show that collecting and disclosing detailed private information is unnecessary and may instead diminish the effects of DTAs. The effect of digital alerts being more pronounced among young and male individuals and in business-centric areas. Furthermore, because the effectiveness of DTAs decreases with the cumulative number of DTAs received, governments should send alerts that include more urgent information that is directly related to the risk posed by a disaster. Our results provide policymakers and law enforcement with novel insights into whether and how the usage of information technology can facilitate disaster management and to what extent they should collect and expose private information to effectively safeguards public health and safety during a crisis. The fast and comprehensive implementation of DTAs in South Korea in response to the global outbreak offers other countries learning opportunities with respect to successful collaboration among parties involved in the development and design of DTA-related infrastructure and education. We emphasize that collaboration among central policymakers, local/municipal districts, telecommunications companies, and healthcare centers is essential to establishing an innovative IT-driven disaster management infrastructure and mechanisms that help inform citizens in taking desired actions in an emergency or disastrous events.
利用数字追踪警报对抗病毒:COVID-19细胞广播对人口流动的影响
数字跟踪警报(dta)已成为在应对灾害爆发时灵活地共享信息的有效手段。各国政府能够立即协调现有信息,提供与灾害有关的信息,并促进预防行动。然而,尽管这些创新技术在管理灾害方面提供了机会,但在应该收集和披露多少个人私人信息方面,可能会出现隐私问题。考虑到这些因素,我们研究了即时数字跟踪警报和警报中包含的信息在韩国背景下影响人们对灾害管理行动的程度。我们的研究结果表明,收集和披露详细的私人信息是不必要的,反而可能会削弱dta的效果。数字警报的影响在年轻人和男性以及以商业为中心的地区更为明显。此外,由于直接灾害通知的有效性随着收到的直接灾害通知的累积数量而降低,政府应发出包括与灾害风险直接相关的更紧急信息的警报。我们的研究结果为政策制定者和执法部门提供了新的见解,让他们了解信息技术的使用是否以及如何促进灾害管理,以及他们应该在多大程度上收集和披露私人信息,以在危机期间有效保障公众健康和安全。韩国为应对全球疫情而迅速和全面地实施dta,为其他国家提供了学习机会,使参与开发和设计dta相关基础设施和教育的各方能够成功地开展合作。我们强调,中央决策者、地方/市辖区、电信公司和医疗保健中心之间的合作对于建立创新的信息技术驱动的灾害管理基础设施和机制至关重要,这些基础设施和机制有助于告知公民在紧急情况或灾难性事件中采取所需行动。
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期刊介绍: ISR (Information Systems Research) is a journal of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Information Systems Research is a leading international journal of theory, research, and intellectual development, focused on information systems in organizations, institutions, the economy, and society.
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