Board & Steering Group

• Teemu recorded a video briefing for the upcoming board meeting on April 30th.
  
• Sarah posted the agenda for the April board meeting that will require some tough decisions.
  
• Mehdi held the steering group call on the performance audit documented here.
  

Community

• MyData-Operators completed writing the White Paper and sent it to a designer to give the finishing touch.
  
• Alessandro summarized discussion and results from the MyData Design call from Friday April 24th.
  
• Casandra organized two call to finalize the upcoming article MyData: Applying human-centric principles to health data.
  
• Teemu shared infos about an online event #StartupsKillTheVirus on Aprils 28th hosted by Zabala to support tech innovators in time of COV19 crisis with European funding and support services.
  
• Ansku published the MyData April newsletter.
  

#Coronadata

This is a guest contribution from the MyData Global team.

MyData is active in the digital response to COVID19 pandemic.

WHY?

The digital response to the COVID 19 crisis needs to be human-centric, and must consider and balance individual rights, collective good and the potential longlasting effects of technological choices and policies that were intended to be short term. It’s our mission and duty to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data. See also the revised MyData Global’s Theory of Change roadmap for how we intend to reach our high-level goals.

WHAT?

• Find the list of COVID19 related projects and initiatives from this Trello board and get in touch with the leads mentioned in the card description and let’s work together! Quick summary about the past week’s progress on each project and initiatives can be found from this message.
• MyData vs COVID19 calls - UPDATE: now taking place biweekly on Thursdays 3pm CEST - register here for the next one on 7 May 2020.
• Join the lively discussions in #coronadata Slack channel that are the basis for constantly evolving thought leadership and emerging initiatives that bring the MyData response to COVID19 pandemic to life.

Highlight news, discussions and recaps:

• A rapid evidence review of the technical considerations and societal implications of using technology to transition from the COVID-19 crisis by Ada Lovelace Institute - full PDF, discuss further in this Slack message
• Immunity Certificates: If We Must Have Them, We Must Do It Right, by Dakota Gruener, Harvard University - full PDF, discuss further in this Slack message.
• Jono Kempe shared news from WHO about Immunity Passports, saying “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection. /.../ At this point in the pandemic, there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody-mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an “immunity passport” or “risk-free certificate”.
• A repository of over 52 000 articles written and published on COVID19, shared by Isabelle de Zegher.
• Paul Knowles shared news about Sovrin Community Aids in Global Initiative to Tackle COVID-19 Challenges. The work of the COVID-19 Credentials Initiative was also presented by Antti Kettunen in the weekly MyData vs COVID19 call on 22 April 2020 - presentation starts at 3.04 .
• Karolina shared a recap about MyData vs. COVID19 call vol. 5 "Smooth Recovery - Immunity Passports" that took place on 22 April - watch the recording.
• Sille shared a list of funding opportunities for COVID19 related projects - follow and share in the #funding-opportunities Slack channel.