Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response
Subtitle: Ethics and Governance Guidance
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781421440613
Description: "Technologies of digital contact tracing have been used in several countries to help in the surveillance and containment of COVID-19. These technologies have promise, but they also raise important ethical, legal, and governance challenges that require comprehensive analysis in order to support decision-making. Johns Hopkins University recognized the importance of helping to guide this process and organized an expert group with members from inside and outside the university. This expert group urges a stepwise approach that prioritizes the alignment of technology with public health needs, building choice into design architecture and capturing real-world results and impacts to allow for adjustments as required"--