Episode 11: Contact Tracing - Mirakind - Invest in Innovation

Digital Village Radio

English - April 15, 2020 02:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode 10: Cleaning Your Devices - Zoonosis - Energy Innovation Life Cycle

Next Episode: Episode 12: Zoom Security - The CoronaCorps - Quarantine@Home

Dr. Peter Eckersley is back. He’s an AI, ethics, and privacy researcher, who is the convener of the stop-covid.tech group to talk to us about contact tracing and how important it is in slowing down the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Loretta Whitesides, about her citizen volunteer work with Mirakind who are working to test essential workers in Los Angeles for COVID-19.

In the last part of the show, Brittney is joined by Dr. Addison Killean Stark to talk about his op-ed for Scientific American where he makes the case for investing in innovation to help with pandemic recovery.