[CENTRA Webinar]
Date:01/20/2021 from 9-10am (Eastern) by Global *CENTRA project via ACIS Lab, University of Florida.* globalcentra.org
[SPEAKER]
Dr. Rui Oliveira, INESC TEC
[ABSTRACT]
Digital contact tracing applications have appeared for the first time in the beginning of 2020, with COVID-19, to complement traditional tracing in a galloping outbreak that quickly became a world-wide pandemic. Test and trace is central to any infectious disease in order to break the chains of contagion. The “manual” contact tracing protocol is however highly dependent on the people’s memory, and resource and time consuming. Intuitively, a digital proximity tracing protocol that could be run by any individual would easily scale out and contribute to the completeness and efficiency of the process. This is the aim of the many digital contact tracing apps being deployed and whose efficacy will need to be assessed in a few months.
