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Open source software for public good

Published Wed, May 13, 2020 · 09:50 PM

A MAJOR weapon in combating the transmission of Covid-19 is contact tracing. In March 2020, Singapore launched TraceTogether - the world's first consent-based contact tracing app which utilises a privacy preserving protocol to anonymise and encrypt BlueTooth proximity data shared between mobile phones running the app.

Over a million people have since installed the TraceTogether app on their devices and joined the fight to protect Singapore from the spread of Covid-19. To support the international community's battle against the pandemic, the republic also open-sourced TraceTogeth…

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