A Systematic Review of the Digital Interventions for Fighting COVID-19: The Bangladesh Perspective

TL;DR

This paper systematically reviews digital interventions used to combat COVID-19 globally and in Bangladesh, highlighting the need for better cooperation and privacy protections to enhance effectiveness.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of COVID-19 digital interventions in Bangladesh versus other countries, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and privacy safeguards.

Findings

Bangladesh can benefit from digital interventions but needs stronger collaboration.

Enhanced government-private-university cooperation is crucial.

Privacy protection remains a key concern for digital health initiatives.

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to synthesize the digital interventions initiatives to fight against COVID-19 in Bangladesh and compare with other countries. In order to obtain our research objective, we conducted a systematic review of the online content. We first reviewed the digital interventions that have been used to fight against COVID-19 across the globe. We then reviewed the initiatives that have been taken place in Bangladesh. Thereafter, we present a comparative analysis between the initiatives taken in Bangladesh and the other countries. Our findings show that while Bangladesh is capable to take benefits of the digital intervention approaches, tighter cooperation between government and private organizations as well as universities would be needed to get the most benefits. Furthermore, the government needs to make sure that the privacy of its citizens are protected.