Bending Spoons on Immune and future developments

We know that the spread of Immuni has slightly exceeded 7% of the Italian population, too low a percentage for the contact tracing initiative to fully express its potential. It would be necessary to multiply the number of installations at least eight or nine times. We also know that similar initiatives have not been much more successful in other countries, except for some cases such as the Australian one, where the 20% threshold has been widely exceeded. What is the reason for such a poorly launched start?

Immune: distribution and interoperability

The question was asked by the editorial team of Askanews to Daniela Ghironi, head of the Bending Spoons team who is busy with the development phase. The answer primarily refers to concerns about privacy even before the software was released, fueled mostly by bad information, despite the fact that the local authorities have tried to reassure citizens in every possible way about this aspect.

Certainly some of the statements that were made at the beginning did not help to make people understand how it actually works. Consequently, all the accusations, particularly relating to privacy, are quite unfounded.

A perception of the risk linked to COVID-19 must be considered, which has diminished in the last period in parallel with the decrease in the number of infections. ascertained.

Another reason why the number of downloads has slowed down in the last period is due to the fact that we now have fewer positive cases and users feel less need to adopt such a tool.

The real value of Immune , its ability to serve as a presidium digital in the fight against coronavirus , it may manifest itself later with the entrance of the autumn season.

In the work of Ghironi even scratched the surface of what may be the next evolutionary step of the project, in the direction that the interoperability desired by multiple parties, so as to allow the application to communicate with other european companies, thus creating a more effective network of contact tracing continental.

One important thing to work on, I know that it is already expected, is the interoperability with app of other countries. Or be able to notify you of the exposure with a positive contact even in the case in which both took place abroad.

Source: Askanews