The Italian Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digitization has established a new Task Force for the Covid-19 Emergency that includes several SoBigData participants.
The mission of the Task Force is to provide studies and analyses to support the Italian Government and the Public Administration in defining policies useful to contain the virus spread.
One of the workgroups of the new Task Force is about "Big data & AI for policies" and Dino Pedreschi (University of Pisa) has been nominated coordinator of the workgroup where also Fosca Giannotti (ISTI-CNR and SoBigData Coordinator) and Francesca Chiaromonte (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) are members. Pedreschi's workgroup will study the available technologies to analyze Big Data for a data driven support to the management of the Covid-19 Emergency.
Also Giovanni Comandé (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) has been nominated member of the workgroup about "Legal Profiles for the Data Management related to the Emergency" that will focus on the legal aspects related to the use of personal data and the guarantee of fundamental rights and freedom of citizens.