Board

• Teemu shared the meeting agenda for the extraordinary board meeting next week together with an explanatory video briefing on Loom.
  

Community

• #common_Endpoints started their bi-weekly meeting series (running memo available) with a presentation from Iain and discussions about minimum requirements for data sharing. Find the latest working document here.
  
• Ansku informed us that MyData has now more than 6.000 followers on Twitter and Viivi let us know that there are now more than 2.000 MyData Slack members as of this week.
  
• Viivi posted the new internal regulations for thematic groups (available as document here) and a draft Admission process, Application form, and MoU
  
• Karolina summarized the weekly MyData vs COVID19 call.
  

#Coronadata

This is a guest contribution from the MyData Global team to give a short summary about the MyData community's response to COVID19 pandemic

MyData is active in COVID19 response - what’s taking place in #coronadata channel?

The Slack channel has become a great source of curated information about data-driven approaches to the Covid19 pandemic, which we aim to evaluate through a MyData lens. If you're interesting sharing relevant news, please use the following intros to indicate the type of information:

• INFO: :corona-info:
  
• NEED: :corona-need:
  
• OFFER: :corona-offer:
  

With these respective emojis, the messages are also streamed to #corona-info, #corona-offer, and #corona-needs channels for easier browsing.

Lot’s of active community members are working on various streams in the context of mydata vs covid19, such as:

• Mapping Covid19 initiatives in Trello
  
• Covid19 MyData CommonS
  
• Drafting an Ethical framework for human-centric public health digital surveillance
  
• Drafting a Governance model for COVID19 projects
  
• Drafting a Policy brief for MPs
  

In order to coordinate some priority activities, an action plan is being drafted - See also this Slack message

Calls to Action

• Join #coronadata Slack channel via mydata.org/slack & seek further information about any of the above initiatives
  
• Add an app to the MyData Covid19 app list through This form
  
• Give feedback to the document: Governance model for COVID19 projects
  
• Join the weekly MyData vs Covid19 call on Wednesdays at 3pm CEST via zoom.us/j/113573045
  

Most relevant information from the past week

• Projects using personal data to combat SARS-CoV-2 by GDPRhub.eu
  
• SARS-CoV-2 Tracking under GDPR by Max Schrems, noyb.eu
  
• Karolina shared a recap about MyData vs. COVID19 call on 1 April - Slack message, this LinkedIn message and watch the recording
  
• Paul-Olivier shared a document for Unified research on privacy-preserving contact tracing and exposure notification for COVID-19
  
• Viivi shared New series of coronavirus reading lists - The Politics of COVID-19
  
• DP-3T (formerly PEPP-PT) published documents on Github: github.com/DP-3T/documents