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Since the start of the 21st century, the world has not confronted a more serious threat to global public health than the COVID-19 pandemic. While governments initially took radical actions in response to the pandemic to avoid catastrophic collapse of their health care systems, government policies have also had numerous knock-on socioeconomic, political, behavioral and economic effects. Researchers, thus, have a unique opportunity to forward our collective understanding of the modern world and to respond to the emergency situation in a way that optimizes resources and maximizes results. The PERISCOPE project, funded by the European Commission, brings together a large number of research institutions to collect data and carry out research to understand all the impacts of the pandemic, and create predictive models that can be used to optimize intervention strategies and better face possible future health emergencies. One of the main tangible outcomes of this project is the PERISCOPE Atlas: an interactive tool that allows to visualize and analyze COVID-19-related health, economic and sociopolitical data, featuring a WebGIS and several dashboards. This paper describes the first release of the Atlas, listing the data sources used, the main functionalities and the future development.

As citizens' age increases, smart cities must adapt to help them to age properly. The objective of the City4Age project is to create the future ambient assisted cities that will help the citizens to deal with mild cognitive impairments (MCI) and frailty. In this paper we present two of the tools developed during the project. The first one is a city-wide context-manager, which allows to store the citizens information using a semantic representation and share it following the linked open data paradigm. The second one are the individual care monitoring dashboards, which use the stored information to help the caregivers to analyze and interpret the citizens' behaviour, allowing to detect risks related to MCI and frailty.

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