A Biosecurity area I’d add to the list is regulation and policy around contact tracing apps.
Example questions:
How come Google and Apple got to dictate the privacy constraints rather than democratic governments?
What policies could boost uptake if the apps?
Why didn’t politicians make the tracing legally enforceable, unlike traditional contact tracing (this was the case in the UK, I’m not sure the international situation)?
I might be able to help on this one — I did some of the early work on Exposure Notification tech and was somewhat involved with discussions between Apple/Google/a few governments.
We partially answer some of your questions here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00873. I’m also happy to try to answer any related questions (some parts are closer to informed guesses and didn’t make it into the academic paper).
Thanks! I don’t have any particular insights or questions (I’m on the tech side of things), just that: I think these apps are really promising, we need better (lower cost and less blunt) tools for dealing with outbreaks, and the biggest issues seem to be on the regulatory/acceptability/political/etc side rather than technical. I will have a look at your paper though, thank you for the link.
A Biosecurity area I’d add to the list is regulation and policy around contact tracing apps.
Example questions:
How come Google and Apple got to dictate the privacy constraints rather than democratic governments?
What policies could boost uptake if the apps?
Why didn’t politicians make the tracing legally enforceable, unlike traditional contact tracing (this was the case in the UK, I’m not sure the international situation)?
I might be able to help on this one — I did some of the early work on Exposure Notification tech and was somewhat involved with discussions between Apple/Google/a few governments.
We partially answer some of your questions here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00873. I’m also happy to try to answer any related questions (some parts are closer to informed guesses and didn’t make it into the academic paper).
Thanks! I don’t have any particular insights or questions (I’m on the tech side of things), just that: I think these apps are really promising, we need better (lower cost and less blunt) tools for dealing with outbreaks, and the biggest issues seem to be on the regulatory/acceptability/political/etc side rather than technical. I will have a look at your paper though, thank you for the link.