Covid-19: how can we avoid locking in bad digital development outcomes?
Co-authored with Becky Faith and first published here by the Institute of Development Studies. As Covid-19 tracing apps proliferate this month, governments of all hues will gain the ability to track citizen movements in real time and to collect the largest ever trove of personal and real-time location data in history. This could save thousands of lives. It could also be a historic inflection point in civil liberties, the depth and scale of which was unimaginable to George Orwell or…