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Governance of Social Listening in the context of Serious Health Threats

22-24 Aug 2023

Event Date(s)/Period(s)
From 22 to 24 August 2023

Organised by:
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law;
Law & Technology Centre (Faculty of Law and Department of Computer Science)

In collaboration with the Law & Technology Centre (Faculty of Law and Department of Computer Science) and supported by the Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit (Faculty of Medicine), the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law presented an international conference that sought to examine:

(1)       The modalities of social listening (SL) applied in response to an infodemic and to ongoing health threats (e.g. antimicrobial resistance);
(2)       The ways in which SL can be used to identify mis-, dis- and mal-information, and the public health interventions that may be applied;
(3)       The ethical and legal basis of SL and ensuing public health interventions; and
(4)       Oversight (if any) that may be required in response to (3), and ethical and/or legal safeguards that should be introduced.

This conference considered the ways in which these Principles and Guidelines could apply to SL and associated public health interventions, as well as their relationship with ethics frameworks developed under the auspices of the World Health Organization.

Event page:
https://cmel.hku.hk/events/governance-of-social-listening-in-the-context-of-serious-health-threats/