One bespoke contact tracing device is a bluetooth ‘pen’ device, which can be handed in if diagnosed without relying on smartphones.
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Behavioural economics has three key insights to encourage take-up of the contact-tracing app.
There’s definitely such a thing as society – which is a huge challenge for developing an app that will ward off COVID-19.
Technology exists that can verify if you’ve come into contact with an infected person without revealing your location or identity – governments just need to be willing to use it.
While preliminary tests indicate user data isn’t being sent to the government, a publicly-available source code is needed to ensure the app’s transparency.
For the app to work well, we might need an 80% take-up. Unless it is made mandatory, we’ll need both private and social incentives.
Since 1915, the Australian Red Cross International Tracing Service has worked to reconnect families from around the world who have been separated by war, armed conflict, disaster and migration. Some of…
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