EU FP7 texts discuss only the potential positive effects of technological surveillance, but neither acknowledge nor require the handling of its negative effects.

What is your vision for systems that will be supporting sustainability in 15 years?

Information and communication technologies are not value-neutral tools that reflect reality; they privilege some forms of action, and they limit others.

Information and communication technologies are not value-neutral.

Surveillance translates the traces, and the translations exert new pressures on existing power relations.

A critical investigation into computational models developed for studying the spread of communicable disease is presented.

This thesis presents a method for understanding disease surveillance systems structurally and examines four existing systems.

We present a technical framework designed and implemented at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control for computer supported outbreak detection.

Experiments using a microsimulation platform show that vaccination against pandemic H1N1 influenza is highly cost-effective.

This article presents a spatially explicit microsimulation model that uses official anonymized register data collected from all individuals living in Sweden.