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)
(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).
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.
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.
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.
#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!
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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