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How well can we expect mobile tracking applications to help manage pandemics?
*) What are the likely limitations of these applications? What are their likely strengths?
*) How do different solutions being developed and deployed around the world compare?
*) From what angles should these applications be assessed? Trust? Privacy? Effectiveness?
*) How do centralised and decentralised applications differ?
*) What other changes, at societal and/or individual levels, might be needed to make these applications more successful?
*) What risks are posed by such apps potentially increasing the power of big tech, big government, and big society? What advantages might come from such increases in power?
*) What are the implications for the management of the present pandemic, and for management of public health in the future?

This London Futurists online discussion will be a facilitated conversation that seeks to gather and share insight. It will include short opening presentations, and periods of both large group and small group discussions.

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To register and attend this event, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuqgpzspHdDPkuBC5-I11uEukNPHaEAB

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The event will include insights from the following industry observers, to help frame and seed the discussion:

*) Eva Pascoe, Chair of Cybersalon.org and co-founder of Cyberia Cafe. Eva has many years of experience reviewing the potential of apps that track footfall in retail settings. See her article "Track and trace or duck and dive – Covid19 surveillance apps", http://cybersalon.org/track-and-trace-or-duck-and-dive-covid19-surveillance-apps/

*) Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis. Dean is an independent technology industry analyst, futurist, speaker and consultant, with over 25 years’ experience. He specialises in wireless, telecoms and IoT fields, https://www.deanbubley.com/

*) Bruce Lloyd, Emeritus Professor in Strategic Management at LSBU. Bruce was the UK co-ordinator for 'The Millennium Project' 1999-2005 and has been active in the 'futures industry' since he first wrote a pamphlet on 'UK Energy Policy' in the 1960s, https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/people/people-finder/prof-bruce-lloyd

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There is no charge to register for or attend this event. Attendance will be restricted to 100 live participants.

The event will start at 4pm BST on Saturday 9th May. To find this time elsewhere in the world, use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200509T150000&p1=136

To avoid delays in joining the meeting, you are advised to come to the meeting URL at least 5 minutes before the scheduled start time.

The meeting is expected to conclude after at most 90 minutes.

Attendees are requested to keep their microphones on mute when not addressing the meeting. Use of cameras is optional, but adds to the social nature of the event.

** If you would like to offer one of a number of initial short briefings of key points and issues arising, at the start of this event, before the main discussion starts, please get in touch with the organiser asap **

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To register and attend this event, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrcuqgpzspHdDPkuBC5-I11uEukNPHaEAB

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