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2020 will be remembered for a long time as the year of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus [1], which so far (end of June 2020) has infected almost 10 million people and killed about 500 thousand people worldwide [2]. The pandemic, which is still ongoing around the world, has deeply affected our everyday lives and forced us to change, amongst others, the way we work and communicate. In this context, switching from physical to online conferences, as in the case of State of the Map 2020, has become an established practice. In parallel, digital technologies have shown their potential to assist societies in addressing this unexpected emergency in a variety of ways, not only limited to understanding the epidemiology of COVID-19, but also extended to the delivery of other health and public services, provision of livelihood opportunities and assurance of business continuity …