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.