| While he is not listed on the About Us page, Murty is an external contributing member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]]. He co-authored an October 2021 science brief titled "COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Ontario and Strategies to Support Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Among at Risk Populations".((Barrett, K. A., Feldman, J., Trent, J., Weerasinghe, A., Lebovic, G., Yan, S., Desveaux, L., Presseau, J., Khenti, A., Perkhun, A., Bodmer, N. S., Born, K. B., Jüni, P., & Murty, V. K. (2021). //COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Ontario and Strategies to Support Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Among at Risk Populations.// https://doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.47.1.0)) | While he is not listed on the About Us page, Murty is a former co-chair of the Modelling Consensus Table of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((Hillmer, M. P., Feng, P., McLaughlin, J. R., Murty, V. K., Sander, B., Greenberg, A., & Brown, A. D. (2021). //Ontario’s COVID-19 Modelling Consensus Table: mobilizing scientific expertise to support pandemic response.// Canadian Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00559-8)) He co-authored an October 2021 science brief titled "COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Ontario and Strategies to Support Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Among at Risk Populations".((Barrett, K. A., Feldman, J., Trent, J., Weerasinghe, A., Lebovic, G., Yan, S., Desveaux, L., Presseau, J., Khenti, A., Perkhun, A., Bodmer, N. S., Born, K. B., Jüni, P., & Murty, V. K. (2021). //COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Ontario and Strategies to Support Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Among at Risk Populations.// https://doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.47.1.0)) |
| The second, PerfectCloud, is a cloud-based digital identity company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices in New York, United States and New Delhi, India. Dr. Murty is a co-founder and CTO since 2007.((//Identity and Access Management Solutions with Encryption | Cloud Data Security | PerfectCloud.// (2021, April 24). PerfectCloud; Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233458/https://perfectcloud.io/about-us/)) | The second, PerfectCloud, is a cloud-based digital identity company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices in New York, United States and New Delhi, India. Dr. Murty is a co-founder and CTO since 2007.((//Identity and Access Management Solutions with Encryption | Cloud Data Security | PerfectCloud.// (2021, April 24). PerfectCloud; Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233458/https://perfectcloud.io/about-us/)) |
| In a critical commentary on Murty's perceived conflicts of interest, [[Canuck Law]] opines that, "First, by promoting the doomsday computer modelling as fact, he can convince the Ontario Government (and elsewhere) to impose more restrictions. That means more people are stuck at home, and more people will be looking at computer services. Second, by pushing the “Smart Villages” initiative, Murty is able to grow the market. In order to connect people the way he wants, they will need digital hookups, like the kinds of services that Perfect Cloud offers."((Ronnie. (2021, April 25). //Vijaya Kumar Murty, PerfectCloudIO, Smart Villages & Covid Restrictions.// Canuck Law. https://canucklaw.ca/vijaya-kumar-murty-perfectcloudio-smart-villages-covid-restrictions/)) | In a critical commentary on Murty's perceived conflicts of interest, [[Canuck Law]] opines that, "First, by promoting the doomsday computer modelling as fact, he can convince the Ontario Government (and elsewhere) to impose more restrictions. That means more people are stuck at home, and more people will be looking at computer services. Second, by pushing the “Smart Villages” initiative, Murty is able to grow the market. In order to connect people the way he wants, they will need digital hookups, like the kinds of services that Perfect Cloud offers."((Ronnie. (2021, April 25). //Vijaya Kumar Murty, PerfectCloudIO, Smart Villages & Covid Restrictions.// Canuck Law. https://archive.ph/NK8N7)) |
