COVID-19: Insights from Innovation Economists (EPFL)

May 11, 2020

A report from a collective of scholars primarily associated to the College of Management of Technology at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne leaded by Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Dominique Foray.
It provides a reading of current real-world developments using economic reasoning and relying on existing economic research.

Living, working and COVID-19: First Eurofound findings

May 9, 2020

The aim of the survey is to investigate the impact on well-being, work and telework and on the financial situation of people living in Europe.
It includes a range of questions relevant to people across various age groups and life situations.
Most of the questions are based on Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) and European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), while other questions are new or were adapted from other sources, such as the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC).

Covid-19 contact-tracing apps (ETUI report)

May 7, 2020

Contact-tracing apps to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have increasingly been mentioned as useful tools to accompany and contribute to a return to normality despite the many ethical and legal questions they raise. The pressure exerted by business circles and lobbies to restart and ‘save the economy’ has been intense.

Um olhar sociológico - entrevista com M. Carvalho da Silva (CoLABOR)

May 7, 2020

O Observatório das Desigualdades do ISCTE organiza uma série de entrevista cuja rubrica é "Um olhar sociológico sobre a crise COVID-19" .
Nesta sétima entrevista o tema principal é trabalho, com a participação de Manuel Carvalho da Silva, diretor do Laboratório Colaborativo CoLABOR.

What can we do to improve telework in Portugal after Covid-19 pandemic?

May 6, 2020

Before the pandemic, the telework situation in Portugal was bleak and could be briefly summarized as having a significant cultural (presencial) problem (managers and workers alike), with difficult legislation, adversarial social partners and ineffective governmental initiatives.

Ten technologies to fight coronavirus (STOA)

May 6, 2020

Author: Mihalis Kritikos of the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) within the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS) of the Secretariat of the European Parliament. Abril 2020

The world after coronavirus (Y. Harari)

May 6, 2020

Sugestão de leitura de Nuno Araújo (CICS.NOVA e CATIM):

Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus, Financial Times, 20 Março 2020
https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75

Simulating an epidemic

May 5, 2020

https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs
3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate.
The source code for this video is visible at the link below, but the, er, awkward part is that it was made on a branch of manim where I'm reworking a lot of other things and have yet to work out all the kinks or add any documentation, so I'm not entirely sure how easy it will be for others to get running. In either case, you should be able to easily see how all the simulations worked.
https://github.com/3b1b/manim/blob/sh...

Debate on Covid-19 with Prof. Dr. Csaba Makó and Nuno Boavida

May 5, 2020

Csaba Makó (Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): How would you explain that Covid-19 produced high casualties in Italy and Spain but not in Portugal and Greece?

Nuno Boavida (Observatório de Avaliação de Tecnologia do CICS.NOVA): 

An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy

May 5, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the world is facing two existential threats at once: a public health emergency and an economic crisis. Political theorist Danielle Allen describes how we can ethically and democratically address both problems by scaling up "smart testing," which would track positive cases with peer-to-peer software on people's cell phones -- so we can end the pandemic and get back to work.