Episode 5: Baroness Martha Lane Fox

05/04/20 • 31 min

The Infotagion Podcast with Damian Collins MP

As businesses struggle, tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Netflix are stronger than ever. Has COVID-19 accelerated digital disruption? What is the right way to regulate tech? Damian Collins MP is joined by Baroness Martha Lane Fox, board member of Twitter and founder of technology think tank Dot Everyone. John Quinlan discusses a shift in submissions to Infotagion from fake cures towards misinformation about civil liberties, and Dr Charles Kriel unpacks COVID-19 case charts.

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Are virus tracker apps the answer to managing life post-lockdown? How has Singapore used technology to stop COVID-19 misinformation and fight the virus? Damian Collins MP gets the view from the ground with Singaporean academics Dr Shashi Jayakumar and Dr Carol Soon. They are joined by Tom Pressley, Vice-President of International Marketing at Everbridge, the world’s largest critical event management company, to discuss best practice in managing communications with citizens during a pandemic. Iconic Labs’ John Quinlan and resident fake news expert Dr Charles Kriel give an update on Infotagion’s work this week.

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Episode 6: Nate Erskine-Smith MP and Charlie Angus MP

Members of the House of Commons in Canada, Nate Erskine-Smith and Charlie Angus join Damian Collins MP this week. They discuss Canada’s strategy for managing the virus, privacy concerns around track and trace apps and whether the International Grand Committee (of which they famously first took part in November 2018) could one day virtually reconvene.