Sean McDonald

13.05.2021, TallinnQueue on the patient web portal regarding the availability of the coronary vaccine from the age of 40. Booking the times for vaccinations is done digitally but there is limit how many people can be in the portal at one time. Foto Mihkel Maripuu, PostimeesNo Use Lithuania. No Use Estonia. No Use Latvia.

Designing digital services for equitable access

Thursday, July 1, 2021

A vaccination passport application for COVID-19 is displayed on a smartphone.

Impunity passports: Governing immunity’s impact on rights

Friday, April 16, 2021

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

Contact-tracing apps are political

Thursday, May 14, 2020