Board & Steering Group

• Paul-Olivier informed the board about an update on the baseline for monthly expenditure.
  
• Sille put forward a motion to approve 5 individual and 1 organization memberships.
  

Community

• Iain shared his proposal for a MyData Button.
  
• Common Endpoints hold their 2nd bi-weekly meeting with the running memo available.
  
• Sille summarized all the concrete activities that are currently taking place in the Community resource page; also check out the Volunteer page and the Community in Action Trello board.
  
• Karolina posted a short recap of the latest MyData vs COVID19 vol4 call which was about Contact Tracing.
  
• MyData Operators are finalizing the “Understanding MyData Operators White Paper”.
  
• Dixon informed about his presentation on the MyData Spring Community Meeting.

#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?

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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:

• Jessica Pidoux shared the proposal for a social response for the COVID19 pandemic, where the initial problem is defined as: “the virus spread is contingent to people’s lifestyles and their characteristics. How to capture the propagation factors according to those lifestyles that put subjects more or less at risk of contagion?” Feedback is welcome!
• John Wunderlich shared a blogpost titled Testing, not tracing, is the privacy preserving response to COVID-19.
• Katariina Pirttijarvi shared the EU toolbox for the use of mobile applications for contact tracing and warning in response to the coronavirus pandemic} developed by the EU Members States with the support of European Commission.
• Karolina Mackiewicz shared a recap about MyData vs. COVID19 call on 15 April - watch the recording.
• Manu Eder (Covid Watch, TCN) shared a primer on decentralized contact tracing, the TCN protocol and implications of the Apple/Google announcement - listen also his presentation starting at .
• Jono Kempe analysed the Apple/Google contact tracing solution - listen to the presentation and discussion from 38'45.
• Sille Sepp shared a list of funding opportunities for COVID19 related projects.