# Technologies to help fight COVID 19 including apps and tracking data collection ###### tags: `Thoughts` `Team meetings` ## Relevant materials - Tracking -- [COVID-19 global dashboard | World Health Organization](https://covid19.who.int/) -- [Apple and Android Corona tracking apps](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/11/21216803/apple-google-coronavirus-tracking-app-covid-bluetooth-secure) -- [Hong Kong tracking wristband](https://hongkongfp.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-surveillance-tech-far-will-govts-go-will-return-freedoms-people/) -- [Contact Tracing Norway's Coronavirus Cases | BBC Click](https://youtu.be/0cmN6tZmx0M) - Data collection -- [World of health data | World Health Organization](https://www.who.int/data/gho) -- [PPDS - Privacy Preserving Data Store](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/) - Ultraviolet light -- [Ultraviolet light | Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet) -- [Can you kill coronavirus with UV light? | BBC FUTURE](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light) -- [Is UVC Safe? | Klaran University](https://www.klaran.com/is-uvc-safe) -- [WHAT IS UVC LIGHT? | Klaran University](https://www.klaran.com/klaran-university/about-uvc) -- [A new weapon in the fight against superbugs | David Brenner 2018](https://youtu.be/YATYsgi3e5A) -- [Far-UVC light (207–222 nm) research article | 09 February 2018](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w) -- [Far UV-C wavelength 222nm example product | Ushio](https://www.ushio.com/product/care222-mercury-free-far-uv-c-excimer/) - [Sweden Herd Immunity Strategy](https://www.npr.org/2020/04/26/845211085/stockholm-expected-to-reach-herd-immunity-in-may-swedish-ambassador-says) ## Key questions for tracking COVID 19 - What are the experience and learnings of other countries(Singapore and Norway) who have already done and deploy a corona tracking apps? - What are the ethics and privacy issues? - What kind of data driven decisions can this app drives? - What are the limitation of the data collected by the app? ## Thoughts and new ideas for fighting COVID 19 - It is more a research project. We don't know how effective it is - We need to be realistic about what this app is, the key message what this app can do. We need to communicate the limitations and uncertainty of the app. - The audience for using an app is confined to smartphone users and even then what's the compulsion to download and use it (other than altruism)? - ## The other side of COVID 19 and global changes - add areas of focus... ## Project - [Swiss tracking app](https://www.thelocal.ch/20200417/swiss-scientists-launch-a-new-app-to-collect-covid-19-data)