Social Capital & Prosperity
Dhanada K Mishra
Two years ago I moved into the household of my current hosts – an Italian and Chinese husband-wife couple in Hong Kong. I found them using AirBNB – a service that allows people to host complete strangers as paying guests in their homes. They have since become very close friends and great benefactors. Trusting one another in general is an important factor for societies to function smoothly and be prosperous. In the USA, the UK and India there is a visible decline in social trust in recent decades, whereas in countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands seem to be heading in the opposite direction. Many leading economists such as professor of Economics at Cornell University Kaushik Basu believe that the downturn in Indian economy has more to do with social disharmony caused by divisive politics than disastrous policy decisions such as demonetisation and a flawed GST implementation. Essential
A freedom pass wristband could be used to allow you out of lockdown after a negative Covid test
3.6 million people were voluntarily tested in Slovakia by providing the public with a strong incentive
Daniel Smith
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Freedom wristbands could be used to let people out of covid lockdown
UK s Behavioural Insights Team says freedom pass would provide strong incentive for people to get rapid testing
12:44, 7 JAN 2021
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Covid freedom wristbands could be used to allow people out of lockdown if they test negative for covid.
An escalation of coronavirus cases and the discovery of two new variants in the UK has led to increasing restrictions and a new national lockdown. But could freedom passes based on negative test results – in the form of wristbands or certificates – offer a way to avoid placing restrictions on everyone?
On the back of a recent mass testing regime in Slovakia in October, after a second wave of coronavirus cases, the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) argued it could provide easy recognition of those who have tested negative.
In Slovakia, 3.6 million people were voluntarily tested (out of a population of 5.4 million) across one weekend and 38,000 new cases were identified – around 15 times the daily average identified under the country’s existing test and trace system. Slovakia used lateral flow tests, which take 15 minutes, with a reported sensitivity of 70%, meaning that three in ten positive samples go undetected. The BIT said a recent study suggested these tests picke
Joe White MBE
Joe White MBE worked previously as a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and investor.
He has served as: General Partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock backed early stage deep tech fund for which he’s raised and run $200m of funds; co-chair of GBx, a curated network of British entrepreneurs; a non-executive director for the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team where he advised on social impact technology products; and a former co-founder of Moonfruit.com, a website and ecommerce platform hosting 7m sites, which he exited in 2012.
He received an MBE from HM Queen in 2017 for Services to Technology Businesses.