Privacy... Smartphones are becoming some of our most trusted computing devices. People use them to store highly sensitive information including email, passwords, financial accounts, and medical records... Huang, Y., Chapman, P., & Evans, D. (2011, August). Privacy-Preserving Applications on Smartphones. In HotSec.

A very interesting topic

In the context of the above considerations, the following question is also current:

Should children and young people limit the use of smartphones?

Is it for children and young people to limit, limit the use of smartphones?

Should I fully control the use of smartphones by children and adolescents?

If children or adolescents use smartphones for learning, as a tool to support education processes, communication with schoolchildren and friends, and if these devices use new online media from time to time, this may not be positively assessed.

However, if divides or young people from smartphones use many hours a day, among other things, viewing advertisements on social media portals and worthless memes and films, then it can have a destructive effect on the intellectual and psychological development of children and adolescents.

In this situation, the use of smartphones by children and teenagers should be limited and controlled by parents, guardians and teachers.

Please reply

I invite you to the discussion

Thank you very much

Best wishes

Regulation and control of the quality and the standard of the content transmitted

Are there specific smartphone applications in your country that play a specific role in anti-pandemic security?

In connection with the development of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic (causing Covid-19 disease) in March-May 2020, public institutions, crisis management institutions, etc. have developed specific smartphone applications in some countries, which can be an important instrument of the anti-pandemic security system. For example, these are applications that for public security services, the police or specialized public institutions operating in the field of anti-pandemic and sanitary safety facilitate verification of compliance by individual citizens with mandatory home quarantine. In addition, there are also applications for citizens offering an information service consisting in determining the level of risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus in a specific area, region of the country, in a specific city or district of the city on the basis of information entered by individual users of this type of application.

In view of the above, I ask: Are there specific smartphone applications in your country that play a specific role in anti-pandemic security?

What is your opinion on this topic?

I am asking for an answer and invite you to a discussion,

Thank you very much and best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Tayyab Jan, Nancy Wanjiru Kungu, Thank you very much for participating in this discussion. Thank you very much for your answer. Best wishes, Have a nice day,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I would like to add the following question to the above discussion: Has the formula for using specific information functions available on a smartphone changed in connection with the development of the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic?

What do you think about it?

Please reply, Regards, have a nice day,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

How has the use of smart phones in virtual learning during COVID-19 lockdown affected students' performance in your country?

Dear Samuel Gichuhi, In my opinion, smartphones have proved to be very helpful for pupils and students during e-learning distance education [currently being carried out in connection with the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic]. Best wishes, All the best, Stay healthy!

Dariusz Prokopowicz

For several years now, smartphones have become the main type of handy sources of information and communication. But, after all, technological progress in the field of information technologies ICT and Industry 4.0 continues and this state of affairs will change in the future, new technological solutions will appear that will replace smartphones. What do you think it will be? What other technological devices will replace current smartphones in the future? Greetings,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Privacy... Smartphones are becoming some of our most trusted computing devices. People use them to store highly sensitive information including email, passwords, financial accounts, and medical records... Huang, Y., Chapman, P., & Evans, D. (2011, August). Privacy-Preserving Applications on Smartphones. In HotSec.

Societal changes... Sun, D., & Lau, W. C. (2013, March). Social relationship classification based on interaction data from smartphones. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops) (pp. 205-210). IEEE.

adverse effects of addiction... Abi-Jaoude, E., Naylor, K. T., & Pignatiello, A. (2020). Smartphones, social media use and youth mental health. Cmaj, 192(6), E136-E141.

Kindly check https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:653091/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Also check https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756416302690

And https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/16/6646/pdf