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Socioeconomic Impact

Behind COVID-19
Contact Trace Apps:
The Google-Apple
Partnership
Katina Michael
Arizona State University

Roba Abbas
University of Wollongong

GOVERNMENT CONTACT TRACE APP
OR IS IT?

intended to allow for privacy-preserving cross
border community-driven contact tracing.3
In context, it is very important to remember that countries like Singapore, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and South Korea have had prior
experience combatting pandemic outbreaks,
including the Severely Acute Respiratory Syndrome,4 AVIAN (H5N1), swine flu (H1N1) and
the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.5 They
have had previous attempts at utilizing technological solutions to control the spread of
viral transmissions, but these solutions have
been for the greater part localized, for example, at the border on entry, through the use of
SMS mobile alerts, and in-building solutions in
hospitals.6
Traditionally, Australia and Singapore have
been closely allied, in fact, Singapore is Australia's
largest trade and investment partner in SouthEast Asia.7 It was only natural that given the
close economic relationship Australia would look

& THE FOCUS OF this article is on examining the
role of Google and Apple in proposed smartphone-centric contact tracing capabilities in
response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
Governments including Singapore and Australia
have to date implemented their solutions,
named TraceTogether and COVIDSafe, respectively. TraceTogether was developed by
Singapore's Ministry of Health and Government
Technology Agency (GovTech).1 The app was
built on the BlueTrace Protocol.2 On 20 March
2020, the Singaporean Government was the first
in the world to launch a national Bluetooth contact tracing app, using their OpenTrace code to
implement the BlueTrace protocol, the latter
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2020.3002492
Date of publication 15 June 2020; date of current version
10 August 2020.

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