By Adrian Gropper
As COVID-19 vaccines become widely, if not fairly, available in different regions, both the public and private sector are working to develop vaccine credentials and associated surveillance systems.
Information technology applied to vaccination can be effective, but it can also be oppressive, discriminatory, and counter-productive.
But these systems can be tuned to reflect and address key concerns.
What follows is a list of ten separable concerns, and responsive design strategies. The concept of separation of concerns in technology design offers a path to better health policy. Because each concern hardly interacts with the others, any of them can be left out of the design in order to prioritize more important outcomes. Together, all of them can maximize scientific benefit while enhancing social trust.