Thread by @sedyst

"We raise this issue out of concern for the way "contact tracing apps" are being proposed without taking into account the complexity of the social. "

"We think it is necessary and overdue to rethink the way technology gets designed and implemented, because contact tracing apps, if implemented, will be scripting the way we will live our lives and not just for a short period."

"The history of critical debate & radical interventions in technological hegemony offers an archive of how technological solutionism w/out resistance, inevitably will be complacent with racialised capitalism which amounts to unequal intersections of race, class, ability & gender"

"Epidemiology and public health have served racial, class, sexual, ableist divides and colonial practices."

"We are currently being presented only two options, a paradigm of either implementing a contact tracing app or continuing to social distance at "home". However this appears to be a false dichotomy. Is tracing contacts the preferred response? What are other options? "

"Will communities be given the decision making power? We need to ask for what and for whom is this exposure tracing app, and how does it fulfill or not the ways in which communities want to protect themselves and manage exposure."

"The urgent challenge is how to facilitate a public discussion so that communities can design, test and shape the methods for protection, care and managing their own exposure."

"How to facilitate a public discussion so that communities can design, test and shape methods for protection not from viruses, but from extractive modes of existence."

This and much more from "The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest" with Miriyam Aouragh, @Helen_Pritchard and Femke Snelting