Digital Innovation for Pandemics: Concepts, Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities

A pandemic does not only bring health concerns for society but also significantly affects individuals and government and business operations. Recently, COVID-19 has substantially hampered conventional businesses and organizations worldwide. Digital technology can help achieve business continuity and overcome challenges caused by pandemic situations. Digital innovation is the application of digital technology to existing business problems. Ideas such as digital transformation and digitization are closely related to digital innovation. In this pandemic period, many businesses recognize that they need to transform, innovate, and adopt new technologies to stay competitive. However, digital transformation is an inherently complex process, and the time pressure to adopt quickly may result in further complexities for organizations in fostering digital technologies.

Digital Innovations for Pandemics: Concepts, Challenges, Constraints, and Opportunities presents the potential of digital responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores new digital concepts for learning and teaching, provides an overview of organizational responses to the crisis through digital technologies, and examines digital solutions developed to manage the crisis. Examining how information systems researchers can contribute to these global efforts, this book seeks to showcase how consumers, citizens, entrepreneurs, organizations, institutions, and governments are leveraging new and emerging digital innovations to disrupt and transform value creation in the pandemic era. It captures the breadth of digital innovations carried out to handle the pandemic and looks at the use of digital technologies to strengthen various processes. The book features the following:

• Solutions on how digital technologies enable responses to a global crisis
• An analysis of information systems used during the management of the COVID-19 pandemic
• New concepts for digital business and innovative content models for different sectors

This book is written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars in the field of digital business, education, and healthcare. It includes theoretical chapters and case studies from leading scholars and practitioners on the technology-adoption practices of non-government organizations (NGOs), government, and business.

一場大流行不僅對社會帶來健康問題，也對個人、政府和企業運營產生重大影響。最近，COVID-19大大阻礙了全球傳統企業和組織的運作。數字技術可以幫助實現業務的連續性，克服大流行帶來的挑戰。數字創新是將數字技術應用於現有業務問題的過程。數字轉型和數字化等概念與數字創新密切相關。在這個大流行時期，許多企業意識到他們需要轉型、創新和採用新技術以保持競爭力。然而，數字轉型是一個本質上復雜的過程，時間壓力迫使組織在促進數字技術方面面臨更多複雜性。

《大流行的數字創新：概念、挑戰、限制和機遇》介紹了數字應對COVID-19大流行的潛力。它探討了學習和教學的新數字概念，概述了組織對危機的數字技術響應，並研究了應對危機所開發的數字解決方案。通過研究信息系統研究人員如何為這些全球努力做出貢獻，本書旨在展示消費者、公民、企業家、組織、機構和政府如何利用新興的數字創新來顛覆和轉變在大流行時代的價值創造。它涵蓋了應對大流行所進行的各種數字創新，並探討了利用數字技術加強各種流程的應用。本書包括以下內容：

- 數字技術如何實現對全球危機的響應解決方案
- 在管理COVID-19大流行期間使用的信息系統的分析
- 不同行業的數字商業和創新內容模型的新概念

本書針對數字商業、教育和醫療領域的高年級本科生、研究生、研究人員和學者撰寫。它包括來自領先學者和從業者的理論章節和案例研究，探討非政府組織（NGO）、政府和企業的技術採用實踐。

Dr. Jasleen Kaur is an Associate Professor of computer science at P P Savani University, Surat, Gujarat, India.

Navjot Sidhu is a doctoral student of computer science and engineering at Inder Kumar Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

「Dr. Jasleen Kaur」是印度古吉拉特邦Surat的P P Savani大學的計算機科學副教授。

「Navjot Sidhu」是印度旁遮普邦賈蘭達爾的Inder Kumar Gujral Punjab Technical大學的計算機科學與工程博士生。