[LINK] Keeping up with COVIDSafe

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

Someone (or maybe more than one) is doing a good job documenting the
COVIDSafe saga on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVIDSafe

It has over 100 references

The Conversation has an article that shows a graph of the number of
downloads per day since it was released.

It is dated 13 May but the graph only has data to 8 May

https://theconversation.com/in-some-places-40-of-us-may-have-downloaded-covidsafe-heres-why-the-government-should-share-what-it-knows-138323

I've been keeping track and the latest data I can find is for 11 May
(5.6 Million downloads.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/dump-amazon-web-services-for-covidsafe-app-labor-mp-20200512-p54s8c

The number fits the Conversation curve in that the current download rate
is about 100,000/day although there may be an uptick to maybe
150,000/day because of the government's mass media campaign.

In the case of the virus itself, the government has done a good job of
flattening the curve.

Re COVIDSafe, the curve is flattening in spite of the government's actions.

As the Conversation article says:

"Transparency

The government’s appeal to download the app is built around trust.

It has asked us to trust it by downloading the app. In return it should
trust us with better information."

With this government that rather goes against the grain. It's a matter
of "do what we say, not what we do. " or "give us your data, but we
won't give you any of our data"

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au