AAAS News Briefing

News Briefings

Tuesday, 9 February 3:00 PM

The Impacts of Mobile Technology and Regulation in a Pandemic

SCHEDULE

Summary

In this briefing, speakers will discuss a comparative study of four countries with low COVID-19 transmission rates, analyzing how these countries are feeding data into contact tracing systems and the operation of those systems. They will also discuss why large-scale technological systems fail even when hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on them, and how usability and public consultation could improve implementation of COVID-19 mobile technological responses.

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Panel Session on this topic
Tuesday, 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Briefing Participants

Katina Michael, professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
Transnational COVID-19 cases and background: Mobile technology implementations

Rob Nicholls, associate professor of business law, UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Australia
Socio-technical and regulatory issues raised by COVID-19 track and trace apps

Roba Abbas, faculty of business and law, University of Wollongong, Australia
Co-designing for the future: New models and frameworks for dynamic ecosystems

Citation: https://www.eurekalert.org/aaasnewsroom/2021/briefings/?b=15

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