Uruguay’s COVID-19 contact tracing app reveals the growing importance of data governance frameworks

Scrollini, Fabrizio, Baliosian, Javier, Etcheverry, Lorena and Moncecchi, Guillermo (2020) Uruguay’s COVID-19 contact tracing app reveals the growing importance of data governance frameworks. LSE Latin America and Caribbean Blog (26 Aug 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Uruguay’s pioneering adoption of Google and Apple’s contact tracing interface is understandable given the urgent need to halt the spread of COVID-19. But this move also puts serious issues of governance, health policy, and human rights in the hands of software developers who have neither the expertise nor the legitimacy required to properly address them. During today’s crisis just as in the future, governments must ask the right questions about data governance if they are to come up with the right policies, write Fabrizio Scrollini (ILDA), Javier Baliosian (Universidad de la República), Lorena Etcheverry (Universidad de la República), and Guillermo Moncecchi (Universidad de la República).

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 13:27
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:41
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106376

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