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Public and private policymakers are collaborating with the new BKC Policy Practice: Digital Pandemic Response program to work through difficult questions about using digital tools…

Join virtual discussions and panels featuring BKC community members

Briefing document by HLS student explains TraceTogether Program

Briefing document by HLS student explains Corona Warn-App

“Our pandemic fight requires prompt testing results — and singular cooperation among the states to achieve them.”

Announcing our new class of fellows and community members for 2020-2021

Briefing document by HLS student explains SwissCovid App

Tech Solutions to Contact Tracing Explained by BKC’s Jonathan Zittrain

The Lancet Digital Health has published a paper from BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser and colleagues from ETH Zurich’s Health Ethics & Policy Lab. Combining health…

Essay series captures some of the current thinking about contact tracing and COVID-19

As people engage in a digital platform ecosystem where the boundaries blur between leisure, play, and work, what key challenges and opportunities do they face? Who can develop…

Disinformation and the U.S. 2020 presidential election, COVID-19

Experts from tech and public health sectors share open questions for stakeholders engaging in tech and contact tracing

Four week educational program to take deep dive into content, community

Project visualizes the names of over 28,000 fatal encounters with police

“Risk” as a cornerstone of AI governance is complicated by decades of debates about how we assess “risk,” Ryan Budish says.

Harvard students pivot from Governing Digital Technology with reports on the pandemic

Unpacking journalists’ role in debunking (and inadvertently spreading) disinformation

Action-orientated steps to innovate in an ethical, responsible, and practical way.