[Air-L] PANDEMICS & ETHICS: CAN CONTACT TRACING APPLICATIONS ADDRESS BOTH EFFECTIVELY? Call for comments on ethical certification

[Ansgar Koene]

Hi all,
   the IEEE Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS) has spent the last couple of months developing an assessment proposal for Contact Tracing apps. The draft proposal is not open for comments.
Please see the message below for further details.

Cheers,
Ansgar


Dr. Ansgar Koene
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Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute
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Subject: PANDEMICS & ETHICS: CAN CONTACT TRACING APPLICATIONS ADDRESS BOTH EFFECTIVELY? Call for comments on ethical certification

Dear all,

Contact Tracing Applications and Contact Tracing Technologies (CTA/CTT) continue to be cited as approaches to help manage the spread of COVID-19.  At the same time, many considerations continue to be raised around ethical transparency, accountability, and privacy in relation to the CTA/CTT use and implementations, as they have the potential to transform the nature of society.

The IEEE Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems<https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/ecpais.html> (ECPAIS), under its purpose of developing critical certification criteria for responsible innovation and delivery of autonomous and intelligent systems, developed AI ethics-oriented certification criteria focused on transparency, accountability, and algorithmic bias. With the growing urgency and critical considerations of CTA/CTT, a use case for application of the criteria to address how we can verify greater ethical transparency, accountability, and privacy demonstrations in CTA/CTT was developed.

This use case exhibits an initial set of the ECPAIS criteria applied to CTA/CTT. Realizing that the use case and, consequently the criteria by proxy, may be improved with input from a larger set of experts spanning wide and relevant domains, we are asking for your views and input. From legal, medical, ethical, technical, psychological, societal, governance, to cybersecurity – and beyond, all perspectives are welcome.

Your feedback will be taken into consideration in the next update to the CTA/CTT ethical verification criteria use case. These criteria will help set the foundation for future ethics certification programs that testing agencies, implementers, and committed ecosystem stakeholders may seek to apply.

Full information on how to download the doc and respond can be found here<https://engagestandards.ieee.org/ECPAIS-CTA-TAPEFR-Report.html?utm_source=External&utm_medium=Webpage&utm_campaign=ECPAIS-CTA&utm_term=Ethics%20in%20Action&utm_content=Download>.

Multiple volunteers from the larger IEEE Global A/IS Ethics community are involved in ECPAIS and helped create this Use Case.  Now, we (all the people who helped create and support this work) would love to hear from you.  Your insights, voices, and direct feedback are deeply appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your response and best regards,

Clara

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