Responsible Data: Data Challenge for #COVIDaction
DFID’s Frontier Technology Hub is working with a range of partners to identify, highlight and adapt responsible guidance and approaches in low and middle income countries (LMICs) that support data protection, digital inclusion, and other key digital practices to fight COVID-19.
Digital tools that collect personal data, such as those for contact tracing, can have significant privacy and security vulnerabilities. Such tools can also lead to under-representation of certain populations or undermine existing data-reporting structures. International privacy protection laws (such as GDPR in the EU) and local data protection regulations are still in effect during this emergency, meaning that those who create and/or roll out these tools still have to demonstrate good data governance of the data being collected, used, shared, and analysed.
DFID’s Frontier Tech Hub is looking for Responsible Data case studies, policies (and associated guidance), training, decision frameworks and other tools that are currently being used — or can be easily adapted and applied to — collection of data in relation to COVID-19 responses in LMICs.
Examples of submission topics/labels include:
- Privacy (e.g. treatment of personally identifiable information).
- Data & IT security (e.g. encryption, sharing, breach management).
- Proportionality, minimisation, legal and ethical usage.
- Data protection legislation.
- Data audit trails, archival and deletion.
- Benefit/risk assessment (also called privacy impact assessments).
- Data diversity and inclusion.
- Data planning & governance.
- FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) & Open Data.
- Obligations of data controllers, including redress and restitution.
This DFID challenge aims to highlight organizations and firms which have created and invested in responsible data principles, frameworks, and tools — and position the Frontier Tech Hub to curate a list of appropriate approaches for LMICs. At the conclusion of the challenge, the Frontier Tech Hub will make available resources to selected applicants which may include:
- Describing the landscape of responsible data frameworks or tools used or adaptable for COVID-19 in LMICs.
- Identifying and matching existing frameworks to needs in specific contexts for COVID-19 responses in LMICs.
The deadline for submissions is May 18th at 11:59pm BST. After submission, we will contact you for additional information and to move to the next stage. Remember, you can submit multiple submissions, especially if each submission differs in substance, application, and topics. Please enter each submission on a separate form.
WHY WE’RE DOING THIS
This is part of an initiative led by DFID’s Frontier Technologies Hub, i.e. #COVIDaction: Building a Technology and Innovation Pipeline for the COVID Pandemic. For more on the initiative, please see here.
For questions and issues, please contact the #COVIDaction Data team at: COVIDaction-data@hellobrink.co
