Faced with a deadly pandemic in 2020, governments took unprecedented measures to combat the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The Covid-19 Response Governance Mapping project kept track of the measures related to data protection, a key area of Covid governance, and documented the legal and political frameworks in which these measures took place. The project sought to provide a global overview that can help make sense of how data protection was changing. One of its main outputs is a dataset which contains information on what data countries collected in relation to the global Covid-19 pandemic, how this information was kept and used according to data protection laws in that country, and a set of additional contextual data from other sources, including Human Development Reports, the Multidimensional Poverty Index and the Covid-19 Stringency Index. The dataset was last updated in July 2021.
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The dataset is made available under a Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Citation: Falisse Jean-Benoit, McAteer Boel, et al. 2021. Covid Governance and Data Protection Dataset.
Full list of contributors: Jean-Benoit Falisse (Principal Investigator), Boel McAteer (Co-Investigator and project manager), Ahmed Abdelmoety, Abeer Al Halabi, Agnes Atanga, Hannah den Boer, Olivier Chutel, Hilde Geens, Thea de Gruchy, Jum’atil Fajar, Geetha Hariharan, Abiy Hiruye, Maged Iskarous, Jade Khalife, Qinyi Lui, Boel McAteer, Andrew McLean, Julien Moriceau, Robert Nagy, Léonard Ntakarutimana, Fabio Rocha, Romeo Desire Rudasingwa, Kanitsorn Sumriddetchkajorn, Fabrizio G. Vaccaro
The Covid-19 Response Governance Mapping project was based at the University of Edinburgh and funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) through the CovidAction programme. A pilot version was funded by the Global Challenges Research Council – Scottish Funding Council.
