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ReviewJournal of the Indian Institute of Science2020

GoCoronaGo: Privacy Respecting Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Management.

Yogesh Simmhan, Tarun Rambha, Aakash Khochare, Shriram Ramesh, Animesh Baranawal, John Varghese George, Rahul Atul Bhope, Amrita Namtirtha, Amritha Sundararajan, Sharath Suresh Bhargav and 2 more

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Review in Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Yogesh SimmhanIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Tarun RambhaIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Aakash KhochareIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Shriram RameshIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Animesh BaranawalIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
John Varghese GeorgeIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Rahul Atul BhopeIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Amrita NamtirthaIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Amritha SundararajanIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Sharath Suresh BhargavIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Nihar ThakkarIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Raj KiranIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing enormous global challenges in managing the spread of the virus. A key pillar to mitigation is contact tracing, which complements testing and isolation. Digital apps for contact tracing using Bluetooth technology available in smartphones have gained prevalence globally. In this article, we discuss various capabilities of such digital contact tracing, and its implication on community safety and individual privacy, among others. We further describe the GoCoronaGo institutional contact tracing app that we have developed, and the conscious and sometimes contrarian design choices we have made. We offer a detailed overview of the app, backend platform and analytics, and our early experiences with deploying the app to over 1000 users within the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore. We also highlight research opportunities and open challenges for digital contact tracing and analytics over temporal networks constructed from them.

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BluetoothCOVIDDigital contact tracingMobile appsTemporal networks

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PMID33199945
PMCPMC7656502

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