On May 27, 2020, at 12:30, Lee H Badman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My question is specifically for Cisco legacy location services users. Are you all doing anything specific in anticipation of possibly needing to provide Wi-Fi location data for contact tracing? Are you being specifically asked about it by your management? We had a bit of a discussion about this on the monthly CommTech EDUCAUSE call today. No one has specifically asked us to provide this data yet, but the general approach we’re taking is that Wi-Fi data does not provide the necessarily granularity to do true contact tracing, and any data we provide will only be applicable to our campus. So Wi-Fi data can be useful as a secondary/tertiary support to true contact tracing (ie, person X has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and is working to retrace movements over the past 14 days) and campus preparations (based on historical and/or real-time present data, here are the areas where we expect to have the highest densities of people, so let’s direct efforts with respect to more frequent cleaning, signage, line/queue management, etc in those areas). -- Julian Y. Koh Associate Director, Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern Information Technology 2020 Ridge Avenue #331 Evanston, IL 60208 +1-847-467-5780 Northwestern IT Web Site: <http://www.it.northwestern.edu/> PGP Public Key: <https://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
