Follow the evolution of the pandemic on the regional territory, to guide public health choices and the behavior of citizens, who can know practically in real time the areas in which a Covid 19 outbreak breaks out. It is with this goal that Open Data Covid was born, the application dedicated to the impact of the virus and the health of the population in the province of L’Aquila. An innovative tool presented today during a press conference in the Auditorium of the Gran Sasso Science Institute, which could easily be replicated in other provinces and regions of our country.
The project was born within the Scientific Technical Committee appointed by the Municipality of L’Aquila for the Covid 19 emergency, and was carried out by Gran Sasso Science Institute, ASL1-Avezzano-Sulmona-L’Aquila, University of L’Aquila and the OpenPolis Foundation. For its realization, the experience of the Gran Sasso Science Institute in the field of Open Data was fundamental, also gained during the development of the web platforms Open Data Reconstruction, relating to the data of the post-earthquake reconstruction 2009, and Open Data L’Aquila, containing many further data on the L’Aquila area.
The Open Data Covid platform can be consulted online at www.opendatacovid.it/covid, where the user finds a zoomable map that shows in an extremely intuitive way the status of the infections in the municipalities of the province, with a detail that reaches the individual case . Following, a series of graphs that highlight the epidemic situation, the trend of vaccinations, the history of cases, the weekly data by age group and by type of chronic disease.
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“This is the first time that a basket of information of such great detail has been published in Italy”, explained Roberto Aloisio, Coordinator of the Center for Urban Informatics and Modeling of the Gran Sasso Science Institute and the Open Data Covid project during the press conference. . “As for the other applications of Open Data L’Aquila – continued Aloisio – the lowest common denominator is georeferencing, ie the attribution to the data of the information relating to the geographical position to which they refer. Thanks to it, it is possible to acquire the information on the progress of the pandemic and the spread of chronic diseases in the provincial territory, area by area “.
The information relating to the development and contrast of the pandemic is in fact crossed with the age groups and chronic diseases of the patients of the Asl 1, making Open Data Covid a very useful tool also for the purposes of prevention, starting from people with greater fragility. The data, updated weekly, are published anonymously and the level of detail of the territorial distribution is constructed in such a way as to safeguard the privacy of the citizens.
“Like many other projects carried out in L’Aquila in recent years, Open Data Covid can also be replicated elsewhere: yet another demonstration that our city is now a place of experimentation”, commented Mayor Biondi. “Furthermore, the new site responds to the need to provide citizens with clear, unambiguous and simple information, especially when an emergency is underway”.