*Tech policy/Privacy* *"Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid app—and it hasn’t helped much"* /The country has the highest penetration of any automated contact tracing app in the world, but one senior figure says it “wasn’t a game changer.”/ by Bobbie Johnson *MIT Technology Review* May 11, 2020 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/11/1001541/iceland-rakning-c19-covid-contact-tracing/
When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire apparatus sprang into action. The country had already been testing some people at high risk of catching the virus, thanks to DeCode genetics, a local biotech company. Once the arrival of the disease was confirmed, it began rapidly rolling out public testing on a much wider scale. The government, meanwhile, quickly built a team of contact tracers to interview those with a positive diagnosis and track down people they’d been in contact with. [ .... ] -- /Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil. Principal Technologist & //Distinguished Senior Research Scholar// //Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)// //University of Hawai'i/
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