[LINK] America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren’t Ready.

[David Lochrin]

On 2020-06-24 10:40, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> “We don’t have a clear national strategy for disease control, for traditional contact tracing, so there’s nowhere to plug in a digital program,” said Josh Sharfstein, a Johns Hopkins professor who was part of a team that researched contact-tracing apps. “You really need a fundamental strategy, and then you can decide if tech will help or not.”

And that neatly sums up the problem with most failed IT projects, including CovidSafe.  Governments are way too eager to charge into technology without a clear idea of what they're doing.

David Lochrin