The PERISCOPE Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) "Data science perspectives on pandemic management” is available on the e-learning platform Coursera.

This MOOC describes modern methods for data-driven policy making in the context of pandemics. Discussed methods include policy making, innovation, and technology governance; data collection from citizens, crowdsourcing, gamification, and game with a purpose (GWAP); crowd monitoring and sensing; mobility and traffic analysis; disinformation and fake news impacts; and economical and financial impacts and sustainability models. Methods, tools, and analyses are presented to demonstrate how data can help in designing better solutions to pandemics and world-wide critical events.

Further information is available on the course’s page on Coursera. To attend PERISCOPE's MOOCs is necessary to create a Coursera account.

The course is completely free of charge, 100% online and administered in a self-paced learning modality, with the possibility of receiving a certificate of completion after the successful conclusion of all its modules.