Last update: 14/07/2021
Irish Covid-19 tracing app moves beyond Ireland as COVID Green
One year ago, in July 2020, Ireland’s COVID tracing app was released, which is based on an exposure notification system, a tool used against the spread of COVID globally. It was popular nationally and became the source code to the Linux Foundation’s COVID Green project. This open source alternative has spread to the USA and other countries in Europe. Within the first eight days of the Irish COVID tracing app’s publication in July 2020, it was downloaded 1,3 million times (out of a population of 4,9 million people including children). The app works like any other COVID tracing app: by…
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