Harvard University
For A Project On Bridging The Tech And Public Health Divide In Digital Contact Tracing
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Amount$125,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/24/2020
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University has a mission to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws. This grant will support the convening of a group of people, drawing in part from the grantee’s long-standing far-flung community networks among executives, technologists, and other policy experts and institutions, to flesh out a new state of play and to build the missing bridge between the technical and municipal for digital contact tracing. The goal is to broaden the understanding of how on-the-ground contact tracing works and can work in different contexts, and catalyzing a model for technological integration that can then be replicated elsewhere.
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