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Peter Wells Profile picture
@peterkwells
May 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#lazyweb has anyone seen a decent diagram that puts contact tracing apps in context alongside human contact tracing?

eg some infections reported by humans, others by machines, some contacts found by humans - others by machines. Every diagram I see seems to be one or t'other.
(Context: it is for some engagement/exploration work that will be openly shared.
Bonus me context: yes, I know humans build the machines - I don't need to go fullmeta)
Reup on whole contact tracing system pictures as I’ve still not found one and I could use it tonight so I don’t have to rely on my own scribbles!
I didn’t find one, so explained verbally.

Here’s lots of diagrams of how contact tracing apps work where everyone has a smartphone & uses the app.

Nice pictures, but not for everyone. ImageImageImageImage

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Peter Wells Profile picture
May 6, 2022
"Government to announce data reform bill in Queen's Speech to deliver 'Brexit dividend'" < such fun!

news.sky.com/story/governme…
If anyone in govt has evidence that a change in data protection legislation will help meet an "urgent need to raise GDP" in any way other than a short-term burst in services to update org-level data policies - & cookie banners, lol - then I'd love to see their modelling...
Quite sad to see the fears, and article as whole, exclude the fear that weakening data protection legislation - legislation which exists to protect people, not data - will lead to harm to people, and that that harm will not be equally distributed....
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May 4, 2022
Ah, health data trusts "independent of the NHS and industry" to "allow startup companies access to NHS data" "as a way of overcoming concerns about confidentiality and the use of private information"

theguardian.com/society/2022/m… Image
Rather than "overcoming concerns" I think people meant to say "using a new legal structure to sidestep existing legal forms of governance that are intended to protect both patient's rights and delivery of NHS services"
There are some useful idiots around data trusts in UK who still don't quite get that even though in some contexts they _might_ improve outcomes for ppl that there are other contexts where they're being used as a tool to do an end run around existing governance for commercial gain
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Oct 10, 2020
Ah. Job ad for ONS' "Director of [UK] Integrated Government Data Programme [IGDP]".

Sponsored both by ONS, which is independent of Gov, & COO for civil service, who is not.

civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j… << PDF here didn't work on my devices, one here did >> sandersonplc.com/ONS/
The job ad says responsible for both IGDP *&* for strategy to transform way data is managed, used & shared across govt.

The job pack says reporting to Deputy National Statistician. No mention of either the planned govt Chief Digital Officer or Chief Data Officer.
Another responsibility is "increase public acceptability of the use of data in government" << obviously sometimes that will mean using less data than now, or than other officials want. I hope they both have power, know how to use it, & can speak truths to others who use it too
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Sep 24, 2020
Status: listening to Tom O'Riordan, Leeds Council CEO, share what he learnt from working nationally with NHS test+trace
I asked about data flows between the new app and local public health, I am *so* predictable.

Tom praises app, & privacy-preserving approach for contacts & check-in at places.

He agrees with Newham Council that central govt need to give local gov access to data collected by app
This Wired piece references the issues Newham repeatedly raised wired.co.uk/article/nhs-co…

This BBC piece talks about some of data app collects that could be useful, it doesn't say why NHS test+trace haven't shared it so far and when they will

bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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Sep 24, 2020
"The Government Digital Service truly was once world-beating. What happened?"

theguardian.com/society/2020/s…

Hmmmm....
There's lots in here that's right - there was some great work and lots of Whitehall pushback - but there are lots of omissions of where GDS got it wrong.
Not just failed big projects - hello Verify, UC, RPA - there was too much focus on one lever 'civil servants building transactional services that end in a website' to change govt

While ppl would rave about ease of ordering a driving licence online, there were closed post offices
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Sep 24, 2020
Update!

The steps from The App to discover what to do if risk level is high have been reduced by one, now 5 clicks, by addition of direct links to gov.uk local lockdown restriction pages on this FAQ page
faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-011…
As the app has user's postcode area I suspect that humans that design computers could make it take a user straight to either the correct gov.uk page for their area or, better IMHO*, a local council page.

* better as local councils offer support as well as info
(Yes, I know some postcode areas cross council boundaries. Someone in GDS must have built a widget to identify & help users thru those cases. Right? Oh...)
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