Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
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Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#2The New Zealand contact tracing app just allows you to log visits to businesses that display QR codes listing their address. So you can have a log of where you've been. Only most businesses here don't have the codes on display as applying for them has too much red tape.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#3Some context:
> The German government has asked SAP and Deutsche Telekom to develop the Corona-Warn-App for Germany as open source software. Deutsche Telekom is providing the network and mobile technology and will operate and run the backend for the app in a safe, scalable and stable manner. SAP is responsible for the app development, its framework and the underlying platform. Therefore, development teams of SAP and Deutsche Telekom are contributing to this project. At the same time our commitment to open source means that we are enabling -in fact encouraging- all interested parties to contribute and become part of its developer community.
https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android#contribut...
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#4The New Zealand contact tracing app just allows you to log visits to businesses that display QR codes listing their address. So you can have a log of where you've been. Only most businesses here don't have the codes on display as applying for them has too much red tape.
Also NZ is essentially corona-free, there isn't much pressure for app based tracing as long as those in contact with people coming in from anywhere else (i.e. air and sea port workers, customs officials and the likes) get rigorously tested.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#5The New Zealand contact tracing app just allows you to log visits to businesses that display QR codes listing their address. So you can have a log of where you've been. Only most businesses here don't have the codes on display as applying for them has too much red tape.
Also NZ is essentially corona-free, there isn't much pressure for app based tracing as long as those in contact with people coming in from anywhere else (i.e. air and sea port workers, customs officials and the likes) get rigorously tested.
Still far better, and quite simple at that!, than we have in the US.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#6The New Zealand contact tracing app just allows you to log visits to businesses that display QR codes listing their address. So you can have a log of where you've been. Only most businesses here don't have the codes on display as applying for them has too much red tape.
Also NZ is essentially corona-free, there isn't much pressure for app based tracing as long as those in contact with people coming in from anywhere else (i.e. air and sea port workers, customs officials and the likes) get rigorously tested.
Wouldn't a tracing app make more sense than having a rigorous border tests? It takes one miss-tested infected person to start a second wave in the country. So I would assume that the investment to make sure businesses provide the QR pays off testing everyone and risking another lockdown. I'm also not sure countries have the resources to enforce huge amounts of tests at the border.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#7I really question whether these apps will be effective. The limitation section https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma... of their architecture document shows that people in close proximity for a few minutes may not even get picked up.
Anyone who has dealt with trying to work out distance from Bluetooth signal strength will know that it is virtually impossible once you factor in, the orientation of two devices (signal polarization), their locations (in a pocket, bag, case...) and the local environment (reflections and attenuation from walls, floors ceilings, furniture).
Additionally, without knowing exactly how transmission is occurring the risk score calculation https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma... may be wildly inaccurate too resulting in the wrong people being notified.
And even assuming perfect ability to deduce the risk of infection of two people using the app, will that help in the bigger context. If the people most at risk don't install this app and the least at risk do then you may be drawing resources away from the people that most need help.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also NZ is essentially corona-free, there isn't much pressure for app based tracing as long as those in contact with people coming in from anywhere else (i.e. air and sea port workers, customs officials and the likes) get rigorously tested.
Wouldn't a tracing app make more sense than having a rigorous border tests? It takes one miss-tested infected person to start a second wave in the country. So I would assume that the investment to make sure businesses provide the QR pays off testing everyone and risking another lockdown. I'm also not sure countries have the resources to enforce huge amounts of tests at the border.
At present NZ have very strict border restriction in place so they have already illuminated that border issue.
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#9So are all the parts of what will become the Swiss COVID tracing app: https://github.com/DP-3T
Re: Germany's Covid contact tracing app is Open Source
#10So are all the parts of what will become the Swiss COVID tracing app: https://github.com/DP-3T
The Austrian app can be found here:
https://github.com/austrianredcross/