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


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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