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The main screen for the user.
Inspiration
Three success cases on using technology (apps) to trace the virus and mitigate the pandemic: China (Colored QRcode), South Korea (Corona 100m app) and Singapore (TraceTogether) clearly illustrate the power of similar tool for a safe return to economic activity. However, none of them is possible to be used in Europe as they are...
The EU, on April 4th, has provided specific recommendations for the building similar approaches.
From the security and privacy protection recommendations from EU and the best practices of previous successes, we have the opportunity to build an app to be used by different European Health Authorities but keeping the same relation to all its users. This way, every European can use his right for free flow across other member states (vital to boost our economy) and be connected to local Health Agents.
On top of that, we can use machine learning for mapping and evaluating the behaviour patterns and have a proper assessment of the virus.
What it does
- Virus-tracing app: it records all locations the user have been. If infected, it will backtrace all users in contact and increase his contagion risk.
- Contagion graph and QR code: based on the number of times the user has been close to contagious, his symptoms and places he visits. The system will display a graph stating he is healthy (green), or at risk (from yellow to red).
- Health Authority combat plan: based on the contagion graph, the National Health Authority, will directly post recommendations and/or mandatory actions (like reporting temperature, symptoms or no permission to go out) and schedule tests. This way, the Health Authority can manage and forecast the demand.
- Places: based on the number of people in a place and their contagion graph, before a user checks in the place, is informed about the risk level leaving an informed decision for the user to take.
How we built it
We are using some code repos for Bluetooth tracing and the rest we developed following the recommendations from the EU. We are open to open our code and share with other developers and/or companies.
Challenges we ran into
Our main challenge is reaching the National Health Authorities for each country. It is clear they are not united in co-creating solutions even though they are facing the same pandemic and challenges. We believe the time for reaction is terminating and soon we will enter on the time for planning and so we will see further cooperation and joint actions. Our goal is to be in the front line solution when that happens so we prefer to merge with others than just another smaller player contributing to a disunited approach.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our design: we have tested several UX to reach a highly inclusive design. Barely any text and intuitive colour scheme. We gave a lot of attention to these details because we are moved by the dream of developing one unique app for all Europeans regardless of their Health Systems.
Our AI: we love AI, the engine we are designing will potentially give us so much knowledge about the behaviour patterns towards the contagion. Health must have as much knowledge as possible (that requires as many trunks of data as possible), and we believe that is the most important. That is the foundation for our one app approach: if you want efficiently fight pandemic you must unify all data sources and learn from it.
What we learned
We learned that this is not the time to focus on coding to make money but on being part of a movement to efficiently fight the pandemic and develop the answer the world is waiting for.
We can share what we have and we are willing to partner with everyone sharing our lessons learned!
What's next for EngageCitizen virus-tracing app
Our estimation is that the final solution will be ready to roll out within two or three months from now. So, now is the time to work together with National Health Authorities to digitised and automate their pandemic mitigation plans.
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