Someone (or maybe more than one) is doing a good job documenting the COVIDSafe saga on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVIDSafe It has over 100 references The Conversation has an article that shows a graph of the number of downloads per day since it was released. It is dated 13 May but the graph only has data to 8 May https://theconversation.com/in-some-places-40-of-us-may-have-downloaded-covidsafe-heres-why-the-government-should-share-what-it-knows-138323 I've been keeping track and the latest data I can find is for 11 May (5.6 Million downloads. https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/dump-amazon-web-services-for-covidsafe-app-labor-mp-20200512-p54s8c The number fits the Conversation curve in that the current download rate is about 100,000/day although there may be an uptick to maybe 150,000/day because of the government's mass media campaign. In the case of the virus itself, the government has done a good job of flattening the curve. Re COVIDSafe, the curve is flattening in spite of the government's actions. As the Conversation article says: "Transparency The government’s appeal to download the app is built around trust. It has asked us to trust it by downloading the app. In return it should trust us with better information." With this government that rather goes against the grain. It's a matter of "do what we say, not what we do. " or "give us your data, but we won't give you any of our data" -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
