- Pulse Lab New York ·
Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 Response
A Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 response was issued today after endorsement by UN System Organizations.
Objectives
The CIT is pursuing the following objectives:
Save lives
Build real-time analytics tools and data visualization products for operational impact.
Accelerate adoption
Support development of policies and guidelines for responsible and ethical use of technology.
Maximize learning
Document, distill, and disseminate best practices and lessons learned from data analytics.
Scope of Activities: Covid-19 Pandemic
Support efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and forge pathways to recovery once the crisis has passed.
1. Analytics Development for the Health Emergency
- Develop Predictive Epidemiology systems to model the spread of the epidemic and the potential impact of public health interventions to support decision making.
- Develop Healthcare Service Monitoring and Perception Analysis to analyze public opinion and concerns around the epidemic, from vaccine acceptance to the analysis of discriminatory messaging.
2. Managing Infodemics
- Develop real-time analytics for Disinformation Monitoring to identify and analyse potentially harmful misconceptions or rumours related to protective measures that can guide communication strategies of national authorities.
- Conduct Radio Mining for infodemic management to create a global, scalable analytics platform based on AI, machine learning, and data engineering which can extract public radio content in real-time for Covid-19 related topics.
3. Social Impact
- Develop Behaviour Monitoring processes to identify areas and demographic groups where social hardship is increasing rapidly, and to quantify the overall impacts of the crisis (in areas such as food security, education, and access to healthcare)
4. AI & Data Governance
- Develop best practices and tools to support privacy protective and ethical use of data and AI.
- Support Member States in the Global South to develop ethical and human rights-based AI Strategies, and frameworks for data markets.
- Provide expertise in implementing privacy and data protection measures.
5. Recovery and Resilience
- Use Foresight methodologies to support the achievement of desirable futures, whether in relation to the data landscape of the future, the condition of Human Rights in a post-Covid-19 world, or beyond.
- Develop Coping Capacity Monitoring to generate insights into how communities and vulnerable groups are changing behaviours.
- Develop methodologies for Resilience Monitoring to measure in real-time and in high definition how communities are bouncing back in order to make sure no one is left behind.
Data-Driven Projects
We've been conducting research to scale high-impact data science to respond to the pandemic.
- Pulse Lab Jakarta ·
Alternative Use of Traditional Data against COVID-19
At the end of September 2020 Indonesia had reported almost 275,000 COVID-19 cases since the first confirmed case in early March. It is the second…
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Get involved
The CIT is working within the UN System, with UN entities and Member States, and with private sector, civil society and academic partners.
How to work with us
Let’s join forces to save lives and protect livelihoods, accelerate adoption of new technologies and insights, and maximize learning.
UN Agencies
Help shape the CIT Analytics Toolkit and benefit from one another’s expertise, data, and technology tools; contribute to policy recommendations.
Contribute to joint funding efforts and second staff to the team.
Member States
Support the Secretary-General’s Data Strategy, Strategy on New Technologies, Innovation Agenda, and Reform.
Provide funding to the CIT and its work to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Companies and Academia
Be a champion of change. Work with the UN System for prosperity, people, and the planet.
Lend your unique resources in the form of data, tools, and skills to develop products and scale proven AI technologies for the public good.
Partners
Strategic collaborations and partnerships are at the centre of the Crisis Insights Team
