Tag: contact tracing

Govt report on COVIDSafe app long overdue

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A six-monthly report required by legislation on the effectiveness of COVIDSafe has still not been completed by the government, despite the contact tracing app launching more than a year...

BCG gets $11.5m for Vic digital contact tracing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Boston Consulting Group was paid more than $11 million over three months to digitise the Victorian government’s paper-based COVID-19 contact tracing system late last year and implement Salesforce’s customer...

More work on Vic Salesforce tracing platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government will pay a large tech consultancy nearly $4 million to improve its Salesforce COVID-19 contact tracing platform over the first six months of this year. Under...

DTA releases COVIDSafe encryption details

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has finally released details of the encryption process behind its COVIDSafe contact tracing app, but no further information on the server used to store the...

Victorians bring in tech giants for tracing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government has brought in tech giants IBM and Salesforce to digitise its contact tracing efforts, which is currently still using pen and paper methods. San Francisco-based Salesforce...

ANU’s shoddy treatment of academic freedom

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian National University has denied it was pressured by Boston Consulting Group to remove an academic from a panel discussion on the COVIDSafe app in an incident that...

Health dept stands by COVIDSafe app

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The federal Health department has stood by COVIDSafe at a Senate hearing, despite confirming it was yet to identify a new close contact in Victoria, where contact tracers stopped...

NSW to launch its own contact trace app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
New South Wales will soon have its own contact tracing app with the state government trialling a new function on its digital licence to enable venue-based tracing that will...

Victoria stopped using COVIDSafe during outbreak

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Victorian authorities stopped using the federal government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the recent COVID-19 outbreak because they hadn’t seen any value in it, former chief medical officer Brendan...