Ethics for integrating emerging technologies to contain COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.
COVID‐19
artificial intelligence
digital technologies
ethical values
internet of medical things
social distancing monitoring tools
Journal
Human behavior and emerging technologies
ISSN: 2578-1863
Titre abrégé: Hum Behav Emerg Technol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101752262
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
27
02
2021
revised:
09
07
2021
accepted:
29
07
2021
pubmed:
15
9
2021
medline:
15
9
2021
entrez:
14
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Zimbabwe is among the countries affected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and implemented several infection control and measures such as social distancing, contact tracing, regular temperature checking in strategic entry and exit points, face masking among others. The country also implemented recursive national lockdowns and curfews to reduce the virus transmission rate and its catastrophic impact. These large-scale measures are not easy to implement, adhere to and subsequently difficult to practice and maintain which lead to imperfect public compliance, especially if there is a significant impact on social and political norms, economy, and psychological wellbeing of the affected population. Also, emerging COVID-19 variants, porous borders, regular movement of informal traders and sale of fake vaccination certificates continue to threaten impressive progress made towards virus containment. Therefore, several emerging technologies have been adopted to strengthen the health system and health services delivery, improve compliance, adherence and maintain social distancing. These technologies use health data, symptoms monitoring, mobility, location and proximity data for contact tracing, self-isolation, and quarantine compliance. However, the use of emerging technologies has been debatable and contentious because of the potential violation of ethical values such as security and privacy, data format and management, synchronization, over-tracking, over-surveillance and lack of proper development and implementation guidelines which impact their efficacy, adoption and ultimately influence public trust. Therefore, the study proposes ethical framework for using emerging technologies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The framework is centered on ethical practices such as security, privacy, justice, human dignity, autonomy, solidarity, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34518816
doi: 10.1002/hbe2.277
pii: HBE2277
pmc: PMC8427041
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
876-890Informations de copyright
© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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