Board & Steering Group

• Teemu shared the MyData Global staff principles for work during the Corona-virus pandemic.
  
• Sarah put forward a motion to approve the new financial policies.
  
• Sarah also put forward another motion to approve 9 new individual and 10 organisational members.
  
• And Sarah finally put forward a motion to postpone the 2020 Spring General Meeting from April 23rd to June 16th because of COVID-19.
  
• Viivi led the March Steering group meeting with the memo available here.

Community

• Viivi started a new channel for #thematic-groups as a counterpart to the local hubs channel.
  
• Viivi posted revised MyData Publication Guidelines.
  
• Sille shared a summary of links posted during the Online Community Day.
  
• Karolina informed about the decision that the Call for Proposals for the MyData Europe 2020 conference was postponed and that a September conference date is unrealistic.
  
• Ansku asks for your inputs to the next MyData newsletter.
  
• Sille reached out to the hub-leaders to comment on the internal regulations for Hubs as well as the unified membership until March 27th.
  

Corona-Data
Paul-Olivier Dehaye started the channel #coronadata with the following message: “hi friends. the science is starting to point to a solution to the coronavirus epidemic in europe. there are two ways to implement this solution: the mydata way or the surveillance way. i know which i chose. if you want to help you can join #coronadata to help out” In this section the most important aspects from this very active channel are summarized.

Initiatives providing information & infrastructure

• CoEpi: Community Epidemiology In Action
• Schema.org on COVID-19
  
• International Internet Preservation Consortium: collect COVID-19 websites
  
• APIs to track COVID-19
• Splunk Dashboard
  
• Dashboard of Genomic Epidemiology of COVID-19

Fighting COVID-19 with Apps

• South Korea is watching quarantined citizens with a smartphone app
• Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea?
  
• NHS developing coronavirus contact tracking app
  
• Israel to track mobile phones of suspected coronavirus cases
  
• The Ferver Map: ordinary people around the world self-report their fever

Non-App related ways to fight COVID-19

• The caremongering movement

Privacy & COVID-19

• With coronavirus containment efforts, what are the privacy rights of patients?
  
• Bruce Schneier on COVID-19
  
• EDRi calls for fundamental rights-based responses to COVID-19
  
• COVID-19, Scientific Research and the GDPR
  
• Information Problems, and Digital Surveillance
  
• Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
  
• A Call to Arms to Rescue Privacy
  
• Post-Pandemic Privacy Preservation