{"id":1761,"date":"2020-05-27T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:53:14","slug":"trace-together-covid-contact-tracing-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/trace-together-covid-contact-tracing-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace Together &#8211; Covid Contact Tracing App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trends.google.com\/trends\/explore?date=2020-01-01%202020-05-27&amp;q=covid%20app%20tracking\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-1.52.03-PM-1024x367.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-1.52.03-PM-1024x367.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-1.52.03-PM-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-1.52.03-PM-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-27-at-1.52.03-PM.png 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bluetooth tracking technology is not new, however in recent months an application for it is being developed world wide. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/trudeau-app-contact-tracing-1.5580184\" target=\"_blank\">In this article<\/a> Justin Trudeau announces the plan to endorse a single contact tracing app for Canadians. Many apps have been developed, for example <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tracetogether.gov.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">TraceTogether<\/a> from Singapore and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/ab-trace-together.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ABTraceTogether<\/a> from Alberta. As seen in the chart above, the term &#8220;covid app tracking&#8221; peaked worldwide on April 26th and spiked again on May 20. I will be interested to see how this technology will involve in the months to come. Many companies are racing to develop their app, but I predict only a few will prevail. I wonder what this rapid push for bluetooth tracking will do for its development, will proximity technology also rapidly advance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5557025.1590180241!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_1180\/bluetooth-contact-tracing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"798\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth tracking technology is not new, however in recent months an application for it is being developed world wide. In this article Justin Trudeau announces&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/27\/trace-together-covid-contact-tracing-app\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trace Together &#8211; Covid Contact Tracing App<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}