Digital Pathways at Oxford Project
Digital Pathways at Oxford is a research programme based at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. It produces cutting-edge research across the fields of public policy, law, economics, computer science, and political science to support informed decision-making on the governance of digital technologies, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
The Mandela Institute were invited in delivering a paper on regulating privacy in the digital age with a COVID-19 twist. The paper will examine the now rapidly changing global regulatory space at the confluence of informational privacy, digital models, public health systems, financial credit regulation, and national security surveillance regimes – and does so in the real time of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will ask what are the rewards of loosening regulation on digital innovations in this period – and are such innovations worth the risks?
The following two papers were developed as part of this project:
- Cachalia, F. & Klaaren, J. (2021). A South African Public Law Perspective on Digitalisation in the Health Sector. Digital Pathways at Oxford Paper Series: no. 15. Oxford. United Kingdom. Full Article
- Cachalia, F. & Klaaren, J. (2021). Digitalisation, the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa: Towards a public law perspective on constitutional privacy in the era of digitalisation. Digital Pathways at Oxford Paper Series: no. 14. Oxford. United Kingdom. Full Article
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