Time flies when you’re staying at home 7 days a week and working on an open source project! Here’s the latest on #CoEpi:
Reminder: the #CoEpi team is building a privacy-first system for anonymous Bluetooth-based contact tracing / exposure matching based on voluntary symptom sharing and/or confirmed COVID-19 test results.
(See CoEpi.org/vision for more details)
Our focus:
Communities of close contacts can begin protecting themselves with #CoEpi immediately; there is no scale required to achieve benefit to closed user groups (e.g. you and your family and friends).
How? #CoEpi allows sharing symptoms of any transmissible illnesses, most notably COVID-19.
But, it’s also designed as a general health & wellness app - remember, the app can also be used to log symptoms of (and help stop transmission of) cold and flu, etc.
It’s open source, which means a few things:
1) everything we’re doing is open
2) we can collaborate with and across other relevant projects (see below)
3) we can work on something for ASAP + also build capability for future integration with public health entities.
Some details on where we are:
#CoEpi has had dozens of calls with others working on similar projects, and are actively collaborating with COVID-watch.org and others on a shared BLE codebase that will be leveraged by multiple contact-tracing projects.
This code (that #CoEpi will also use for the BLE part of the app) represents the most advanced technology currently available for those seeking to work on contact-tracing solutions for COVID-19.
Some of #CoEpi’s Bluetooth technology has already been incorporated into the latest beta of the MIT Private Kit Android app: ~12,000 phones are now beaming BLE.
The #CoEpi team has also spoken with members of the team who built TraceTogether for Singapore. #CoEpi and the teams we’re partnered with are also in discussions with contacts at CDC, WHO, and many other national health authorities interested in leveraging this tech.
Where does #CoEpi need help?
1) More mobile developers! If you’re a native mobile developer, please PM & we can get you connected.
2) Not a dev? Sign up via this form to be an early tester - we expect to have a v0.1 ready to test within days. forms.gle/MLeKz9nerPvX8f…
Thanks!
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