California is ending its COVID emergency this month; the US plans to do so in May 2023. This repo is no longer relevant and is being archived.
This site is a crowdsourced list of projects related to COVID-19 contact tracing using smartphones. The goal of contact tracing is to identify the contacts of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and to advise them to self-quarantine. Large scale, highly accurate contact tracing could control the spread of epidemics and reduce the need for societal lockdowns.
Other list projects:
- A larger list and some additional background can be found in this google doc. Formed by the merging of Stop Covid Now's list, Corona Watch's and Mitra's. Please add projects there as well.
Tracking apps
"Big projects" (loosely defined by GitHub stars, recent activity, endorsements or backers) are highlighted in bold.
Specs, Calls and Whitepapers
| Name | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COVID-APP | Privacy-preserving AI, Apheris AI collaborates w/ OpenMined | |||
| Privacy Preserving Disease Tracking | ||||
| 10 requirements for the evaluation of 'Contact Tracing' apps | ||||
| DP-3T | https://github.com/DP-3T | BLE | Design considerations for privacy preserving tracing | |
| Apple and Google joint Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing | Google and Apple are announcing a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design. | BLE | ||
| ACLU white paper: The Limits of Location Tracking in an Epidemic | ||||
| Minimal data leakage covid-19 tracing |
Self-reported public database creation
| Name and website link | Notes |
|---|---|
| Apple | |
| AITIA app | |
| COVID-19 Track | |
| COVID Symptom Tracker | |
| Coronastatus | Open source project, can be launched country by country |
| Corona data scraper | Scrapes from verified data sources |
| Fever map | also has list of other similar projects, some of which are listed below |
| Sneeze map | Also incorporates data from other sources |
| Ghana health services app | Ghana Ministry of Health |
Self-Diagnostics and Treatment Recommendations by Public Health Authorties
| Name and website link | Notes |
|---|---|
| Covapp | Questionnaire in EN /DE, can be combined with app/database for self-reporting |
| Apple COVID-19 Watch | |
| WHO App | Unreleased |
Analysis on existing big data sources
| Name and website link | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Unacast | US | |
| Cuebiq | Italy | through "data for social good" program |
| Cell tower companies? | US | No additional details |
| NYTimes dataset | US | Public dataset! Woo! |
| COVID-19 Mobility Data Network | US |
Hardware
| Name and Website link | Notes |
|---|---|
| Epidose | Reference implementation of the DP-3T protocols on a Raspberry Pi Zero-W |
| Nordic Semiconductor / Accent Systems | BLE wearable |
Scholarly Publications and Other Research
How can this site help?
This list of projects has two benefits:
- It can help match projects that are looking for volunteers with volunteers looking to help
- It can help related projects find each other in order to pool their efforts and avoid duplicated effort
How to contribute
- Submit a pull request with a line for the project filled in.
- I will moderate for spam and inappropriate behavior before merging
- Please make sure to use the "preview" feature in github to ensure that the formatting is correct before you submit
- If you have suggestions for improving the information collected in the table
- please file an issue to begin the discussion
- If you would like to help in maintaining this site
- please file an issue expressing interest a link to your linkedin page
Privacy policy
There is no privacy. This is a public repo and all information submitted to it is and will remain public by design. Please take this into account before submitting.