Board & Steering Group

• Teemu sent MyData Global Action plan during Q2/2020 & COVID19 to the board member for review and vote.
  
• MyData Europe events will be canceled due to many reasons for this year. In addition to that, MyData Africa conference maybe canceled because IODC will be postponed to 2021.
  
• Chris provided us with information regarding to the update on MyData Global Performance Audit 2020.

Community

• Ansku published his new blog：* An approach for fighting COVID-19 and beyond: MyData*.
• Karolina is looking for a person who works around the topics of health and wellbeing in the cities to participate in a panel of a conference organised by ECHA
  
• Lal announced that he and his team came second in the Stockholm Hackathon Data4Life Initiative
  
• Johannes talked about COVID contract tracing and personal servers on the Privacy, Surveillance and Anonymity podcast.
  

#Coronadata

This is a guest contribution from the MyData Global team.

MyData is active in the digital response to COVID19 pandemic.

WHY?
study the revised MyData Global’s Theory of Change map for the high-level objectives around MyData’s response to Covid19 pandemic and listen Viivi Lähteenoja’s presentation

WHAT are some of the concrete activities that are taking place?

• Mapping Covid19 initiatives in Trello
• Covid19 MyData CommonS
• Ethical framework for human-centric public health digital surveillance
• Governance model for COVID19 projects
• Policy brief for MPs
• Project App Assay for COVID-19

Reach out in #coronadata Slack channel to learn more about the specific projects or get in touch with sille(@)mydata.org (or @Sille in Slack) to connect you with the relevant project leads.

Easy steps YOU can take:

• Join #coronadata channel, tune in for the next weekly MyData ft Covid19 call on April 15th 3pm CEST & contribute to the various emerging projects!
• Listen also Paul-Olivier Dehaye call for “keeping MyData going”

Highlight news, discussions and recaps:

• Google and Apple launching a contact tracing app: follow & discuss
• Antti “Jogi” Poikola reflected on the past week of contact tracing discussions in Finland and shared his high-level framing of the human centric digital response to the current and future health crises.
• Karolina Mackiewicz Karolina Mackiewicz shared, a recap about MyData vs. COVID19 call on 8 April - watch the recording.