DCA Digital Digest: EXTENDED: COVID-19 eHealth Innovation Essay Writing Competition Award

1. EXTENDED: COVID-19 eHealth Innovation Essay Writing Competition Award

Almost overnight, remote work has become the new norm, the mainstream. Companies, schools and other institutions around the world are encouraging their staff, students to work from home to prioritize the health and safety of their workforce and communities, from the effects that have resulted from the COVID-19 global pandemic. To help navigate the challenges of studying remotely and be beneficial to the whole global conversation on health and wellness, DCA Digital Academy has created an essay writing competition award for university students to participate and use this special #StayAtHome moments and apply their creative minds to contribute to a solution.

2. How COVID-19 Will Force Education Into The Future

The Covid-19 crisis will force – and is forcing – education a decade into the future. While there will be benefits to this “leapfrogging,” borrowing a phrase from the Brookings Institution, in the way we educate – how we educate, where we educate, and most importantly why we educate – there will also be casualties of this leap into the future and many of these will be as a result of existing inequity.

3. Principles for effective cybersecurity leadership in a post-COVID world

COVID-19 is forcing business leaders to adapt operating models faster than ever before to ensure existential survival. The large-scale adoption of work-from-home technologies, exponentially greater use of cloud services and explosion of connectivity allow companies to continue operations even with social distancing and “stay at home” orders. However, the paradigm shift is putting immense pressure on cybersecurity operations. READ ON>>

4. Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution

Health care systems around the world—even the most advanced ones—are some of the most complicated, hierarchical, and static institutions in society. This time around, AI has been able to help in only pockets of excellence. The reasons for this are simple: Before Covid-19 struck, we did not understand the importance of these areas and act accordingly, and, crucially as far as AI is concerned, we did not have the data to deliver the solutions.
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