How Ireland built its COVID-19 contract tracing app, which is so successful that US states want to use it
Ireland launched its coronavirus contact-tracing app, COVID Tracker, on July 7, and other countries have asked to use it as a basis for their own apps.
NearForm was originally working on a centralized app that would group user data together for authorities to study, but switched to a more private, decentralized model after Google and Apple released contact-tracing tech for developers.Countries the world over have tried to find ways to track the spread of the coronavirus through their citizens' smartphones, with varying success. Ireland's attempt stands out.
NearForm never pitched itself as a government partner on contact tracing — instead, it was approached by the Irish Health Service Executive in March, Harte said. That prototype showed how the app would look to users, but NearForm still had to actually build the crucial contact-tracing tech.
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