Call for Participants to Attend the SPRITE+ Virtual Sandpit on Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security in the post-Covid Digital Economy

Deadline: 16 June 2020

Applications are invited from SPRITE+ Members and Expert Fellows (academic and non-academic) to join our online Sandpit on Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security in the post-Covid Digital Economy in July 2020.

Up to £100,000 of SPRITE+ funding will be made available to fund interdisciplinary projects arising from this sandpit.

Questions we might address include (but are not limited to):

• How do the responses of governments, businesses, and citizens to Covid-19 enable or mitigate new digital harms? How might we protect networks, hardware, individuals and organisations (etc.) from such harms and/or make them resilient in the face of harm?
• How can ethics, regulation, policy, education etc. keep up with the pace of technological change?
• How can legacy, present, and future technologies come together to form a post-Covid digital ecosystem that works for everyone?

The Sandpit will be run virtually, at the following times and dates:

• 13 July 2020, 09.30 - 11.00: Sandpit session 0 (pre-meet for participants get to know each other)
• 16 July 2020, 09.30 - 13.00: Sandpit session 1
• 20 July 2020, 09.30 - 13.00: Sandpit session 2
• 23 July 2020, 09.30 - 13.00: Sandpit session 3
• 27 July 2020, 09.30 - 13.00: Sandpit session 4/Funding panel

Participants are expected to attend every session in full and engage with each other in between formal sessions.