GoCoronaGo: Privacy Respecting Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Management

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.04916
• Publication Date: 2020-01-01
• Authors: Yogesh Simmhan; Tarun Rambha; Aakash Khochare; Shriram Ramesh; Animesh Baranawal; John Varghese George; Rahul Atul Bhope; Amrita Namtirtha; Amritha Sundararajan; Sharath Suresh Bh...; Nihar Thakkar; Raj Kiran
• Keywords: Contact tracing; Tracing; Isolation; Pandemic; Smartphone app

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