Join the Australian Society for Computers and Law and its expert panel for three presentations and Q&A on COVID Passports.

How will the COVID passport impact your rights and data? Can the public interest be built in by design?

Our presenters

Vaccine Passports and the Ecosystems Perspective
Dr Roba Abbas is a Lecturer and Academic Program Director with the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has a PhD in location-based services regulation and has received competitive grants for research addressing global challenges in areas related to co-design and socio-technical systems, operations management, robotics, social media and other emerging technologies. Her current research interests include methodological approaches to complex socio-technical systems design. More recently, she has delivered talks and co-organised panels for Yale University, The Alan Turing Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Arizona State University and Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Dr Abbas is Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and was the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS20) hosted by Arizona State University in November 2020. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Product Manager with Internetrix, Wollongong.

Vaccine Passports and the Growing Digital Divide
Professor Katina Michael is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective and presently a co-Principle Investigator on the National Science Foundation NRT “Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living”. Katina is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and is a senior editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine since 2015 where she founded the socio-economic impact section. She has also been a member of the Australian Privacy Foundation since 2008, and a Consumer Representative for the Consumer Federation of Australia from 2005 to 2010. In 2017, Katina was a recipient of the Brian M. O’Connell Distinguished Service Award in the Society for the Social Implications of Technology and in 2020 received the ICTO Golden Medal for lifetime achievement award for exceptional contributions to research in information systems.

Domestic vaccine passports
Associate Professor Rob Nicholls is an associate professor in regulation and governance at the UNSW Business School and a visiting professional fellow at UTS Sydney Law. His research interests focus on competition law, the regulation of networked and platform industries with an emphasis on the effects of technology in the regulatory space. His PhD examined the regulation of the media in Australia and his platform industry analysis reflects this. Rob has had a thirty-year career concentrating on competition, regulation and governance. His first degree was in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham and he was awarded his PhD and MA by UNSW Sydney. Before moving to academia, he worked for Webb Henderson, the ACCC and spent twelve years as a client-facing consultant at Gilbert + Tobin, including as a partner. Rob is an accredited mediator and from 2012 to 2020 was Australia’s Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator.

Who should listen in?
All with an interest in the future of health, personal freedoms and rights, and the use of personal information and data are encouraged to attend.
The AUSCL education series is designed for law, technology and policy makers, academics and students, and members of the public.

About AUSCL
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