US student’s app offers roadmap to Singapore contact tracing tech


FILE PHOTO The Marina Bay Sands integrated resort lights up in tribute to the healthcare workers and people staying home to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore April 10 2020. REUTERSEdgar Su

The kTrace app languished until Suri, now a 21-year-old junior at Stanford University, got an email on Jan 24 from Jason Bay, a Stanford alum and senior director at Singapore’s Government Technology Agency (GovTech). — Reuters

OAKLAND, California: Singapore kicked off a global rush to develop contact tracing apps for the novel coronavirus when the city-state launched an apparently new system in March.

But the project actually drew inspiration from a 2014 US high school project that won an international prize but found no backers – until now.

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