I would like to propose an AMA on openness/availability of COVID data. My friends in Italy have launched this petition, which reached 35K signatures in 10 days. The matter is interesting because it ties in three themes:
- open data.
- strategic/political use of restricting information, and how open data invalidate that, hence generating a resistance to openness.
- the technical difficulty of building robust workflows around the collection, cleanup and publication of data.
I could ask one of them to do an AMA and tell the story. We could also try and reach out for activists in other countries, and see how the issue plays out internationally.