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Tech Trend Update: If Contact Tracing Then Distributed Trust

Exploring a decentralized solution to foster trust toward a crucial public health technology tool.

With COVID-19's rapid spread through populations, governments are looking for technology tools that can augment the efforts of manual contact tracing processes. How the system is designed is crucial to a positive outcome.

  • CIOs must understand how distributed trust principles achieve embedded privacy and help encourage user adoption.
  • CEOs must consider how society's waning trust in institutions affects the way they engage their customers.

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Critical Insight

Mobile contact tracing apps that use a decentralized design approach will be the most likely to be adopted by a wide swath of the population.

Impact and Result

There are some key considerations to realize from the way different governments are approaching contact tracing:

  1. If centralized, then seek to ensure privacy protections.
  2. If decentralized, then seek to enable collaboration.
  3. In either case, put in place data governance to create trust.

Tech Trend Update: If Contact Tracing Then Distributed Trust Research & Tools

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Author

Brian Jackson

Contributors

  • Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre, Ryerson University
  • Dan DeMers, CEO, Cinchy
  • Mathias Payer, HexHive Group Leader, EPFL School of Computer and Communications Sciences
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