Dear Colleagues, Collaborators, and Friends, We hope this email finds you well. Given the COVID-19 public health crisis that affects so many of us around the globe, we thought it might be time for us to share experiences and resources that might inform our responses and strategies as Centers but also as individual members of the academic community. In collaboration with the NoC, we would like to invite you to be part of an interactive online discussion on how countries are using *data and apps as part of their strategies to counter the public health crisis caused by Covid-19 *taking place this *Friday, April 24th, at 9AM ET / 10AM Rio / 4PM Israel/ 9PM Singapore / 10PM South Korea*. We will hear from our colleagues in *Singapore *(Malavika - DAH), *Brazil *(Carlos Affonso Souza - ITS), I*srael* (Eldar Haber – Haifa Center for Law & Technology) and *South Korea *(K.S. Park – Open Net Korea) who will talk about the measures these countries are adopting using data to counter the Covid-19 crisis. We will host the meeting via Zoom, the details are included in this RSVP form <https://itsrio2.typeform.com/to/JTGSvN>. Please share this opportunity also with your colleagues at the Center as we aim for a robust number of participants. Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday. Be well, Celina, Carlos, Sandra, Amar and Urs -- *Celina M.A. Bottino* *Diretora de Projetos* *Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)* https://www.facebook.com/ITSriodejaneiro itsrio.org +55 21 3486-0390