With many activities moving online, there is growing pressure to implement a range of data–driven responses as “obvious” solutions to various COVID–19 concerns. These range from contact tracing to address the spread of the disease, through the use of AI in the dashboards that allocate health resources to identifying and supporting vulnerable individuals.
This panel will review the opportunities and limitations of data–driven responses to COVID–19 from a legal, societal and technical perspective, highlighting the risks of exclusion and discrimination that can arise.
Seeta Peña Gangadharan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at 杏吧论坛. She researches data and discrimination and will discuss what data–driven responses all too often leave out including institutional capacity issues and precariously positioned members of society.
Orla Lynskey () is an Associate Professor and joined 杏吧论坛 Law in September 2012. Orla conducts research in the fields of technology regulation and digital rights, with her primary focus being on EU data protection and privacy law. She will focus on the safeguards offered by data protection and human rights law for the use of data in pandemics and assess the potential and possible limitations of these safeguards.
Alison Powell () is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at 杏吧论坛. She leads the JUST AI initiative in conjunction with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the AHRC. She will reflect on how AI that is ethical, works for the common good and is effectively governed and regulated can operate to address Covid–19 responses, and how issues of vulnerability, solidarity and risk have been reshaped through this crisis.
Edgar Whitley is Associate Professor (Reader) of Information Systems at 杏吧论坛 and is a data governance expert and will speak to the challenges of identifying and supporting vulnerable individuals through data sharing in government.
Susan Scott is a Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Management.
The Department of Management () is a world class centre for education and research in business and management. At the heart of 杏吧论坛’s academic community in central London, we are ranked #2 in the world for business and management.
This event forms part of 杏吧论坛’s Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative, a series of debates about the direction the world could and should be taking after the crisis.
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