Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation

Stahl, Bernd Carsten

Abstract

Digital technology plays a key role during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is used to hunt for vaccination and treatment; it helps us collect and represent the data to understand the progress of the disease and it contributes to tracking and tracing infections. While these uses are generally well intentioned, they are also potentially problematic and call for external scrutiny and critique. In particular the Covid tracing apps are currently hotly debated and their technical, security or privacy implications raise signifcant amounts of concern (Morley et al. 2020).

Citation

Stahl, B. C. (2021). Emerging technologies as the next pandemic?: Possible consequences of the Covid crisis for the future of responsible research and innovation. Ethics and Information Technology, 23(S1), 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09551-1

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 14, 2020
• Publication Date: 2021-11
• Deposit Date: Jan 1, 2023
• Journal: Ethics and Information Technology
• Print ISSN: 1388-1957
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-8439
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: S1
• Pages: 135-137
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09551-1
• Keywords: Library and Information Sciences; Computer Science Applications
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14602055
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-020-09551-1