Research Topic:
You will research the impacts of COVID-19 on the world taking into consideration its power as global
business pressure, which imposes significant repercussions never imagined. You should start to
read/collect material about the economic and social stress caused by the social distancy and closing
measures adopted by world economies to restrain the pandemic. In your research, you will explain the
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role/implications of technology in the world context of COVID-19 economical repercussions (listed below)
of this pandemic crisis affecting a variety of society sectors and business domains:
A. describing the negative impacts/repercussions (choose to focus your analysis in one sigle aspect
which can be: competitive advantage, organizational response, strategic planning, future
investments, and ethical/legal issues),
B. highlighting societal/economical pros/cons of the damage control measures adopted
C. indicating at least one potential innovation that global scale restrictions brought for the business
domains researched (related with the topics I and II you will choose).
Each of the above analyses contexts shows a point of view where COVID-19 has been impacted
society/business that you must consider and comment on your essay (600 words minimal – 1000 words
maximum) to present your assessment of each context above (A, B and C) taking into consideration the
connections/implications for the topics from these two categories (pick one topic from each category):
I. Information Technology related impacts (choose only one): information security,
data/knowledge management, technology infrastructure, telecommunications, mobile/social
computing, and artificial intelligence;
II. Affected Society/Business Sectors (choose only one): environment/ecology, agriculture,
education, science, health care, marketing, stock market/banks, digital/social economy,
industry/retail, tourism/hospitality, culture/entertainment, supply chain/customer relationship,
legal/international affairs, job market, humanitarian/social welfare, government/public servers;
The question your research/essay should answer is: What are the economical repercussions of COVID19 to the essences of Topic II developments/recovery, that can be directly/indirectly affected (for good
or bad) by the Topic I?
Both essay and video-report must present the mandatory following required content:
1. Author’s Name
2. Author’s Major
3. Categories choose: Topic I Topic II
4. Essay’s Title: COVID-19: Analyzing both sides of a pandemic impacts
5. Introduction (to present the topics you will analyze, describing the connection/relationship
between them)
6. Development (to analyze the impact of COVID-19 has in the synergic implications between the
chosen topics I and II regarding the proposal contexts A and B)
7. Conclusion (Your answer to the essay question, highlighting in your argumentation your
suggestions to support the proposal context C)
8. References (to present all sources consulted using the recommended citation format; you can
show this information using a single slide presented at the end of your video-report)
9. Link to the video report (link must work or you will get 2 points penalty overall the grade)
