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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336

The government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point.

Instead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test.

Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she decides it has been made fit for purpose, which is not the case at present. It is possible this may never happen.
Ah, she's found out and put her foot down (she's in charge, y'know) .....

So we're back to maybe an app, and one that doesn't do the job - it's not just a shambles, it's chaos .....
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19-06-2020, 08:45 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336



Ah, she's found out and put her foot down (she's in charge, y'know) .....

So we're back to maybe an app, and one that doesn't do the job - it's not just a shambles, it's chaos .....
Who,s the technical geek responsible for foisting this DIY system
on the taxpayers?
Surely he/she should be fired for incompetence etc?
ls there going to be an inquiry at least?
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19-06-2020, 10:34 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
Who,s the technical geek responsible for foisting this DIY system
on the taxpayers?
Surely he/she should be fired for incompetence etc?
ls there going to be an inquiry at least?
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Hi

It was a Political Decision to go it alone.

Boris said it would be world beating.

The prat responsible for the fiasco is Dr Geraint Lewis Head of NHS Digital Services.

Germany posted the Open Source Code which works on both Apple and Android 14 weeks ago.

We decided not to use it.
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20-06-2020, 09:28 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

Coronavirus: What went wrong with the UK's contact tracing app?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53114251

There is scant proof from anywhere around the world that smartphone apps using Bluetooth are an effective method of contact tracing. Back in March, it seemed that the hugely powerful devices most of us carry with us might help us emerge from this health crisis. Now it looks as though a human being on the end of a phone is a far better option
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20-06-2020, 02:41 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

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Coronavirus: What went wrong with the UK's contact tracing app?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53114251



Sounds to me like our politicians got taken in by techno con men
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Wonder how much all this cost?
I believe software developers dont come cheap??

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20-06-2020, 03:32 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
Sounds to me like our politicians got taken in by techno con men Omah!
Wonder how much all this cost?
I believe software developers dont come cheap??

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£12 million – rather an expensive venture!

https://www.publictechnology.net/art...t-work-iphones


As usual governments never seems to be able to get anything to do with developing software right, look at those computer systems that have proved useless in the past!

https://vanguard-method.net/library/...public-sector/
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21-06-2020, 07:12 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

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£12 million – rather an expensive venture!

https://www.publictechnology.net/art...t-work-iphones


As usual governments never seems to be able to get anything to do with developing software right, look at those computer systems that have proved useless in the past!

https://vanguard-method.net/library/...public-sector/
I'm afraid our mr,johnson is rather gullible where technology is
concerned Baz?
The alternative is too dreadful to contemplate??

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21-06-2020, 07:48 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

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I'm afraid our mr,johnson is rather gullible where technology is
concerned Baz?
The alternative is too dreadful to contemplate??

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The alternative is flipping obvious:

1. Boris is incompetent
2. Boris won't do anything which doesn't benefit him PERSONALLY!
3. Boris is a liar and not to be trusted!
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01-07-2020, 10:50 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Test and Trace App.

Has anyone seen or heard of Baroness Dido Darding, Chair of NHS Improvement and Executive Chair NHS Test and Trace recently .....

She's obviously taken on the "invisible" mantle from Priti Patel .....
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10-07-2020, 10:17 AM
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Here's Dido .....

Still no date for NHS contact tracing app

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...-a9600171.html

Giving evidence to the House of Lords science committee on Monday Baroness Dido Harding, who is leading the government’s test and trace service, said she could not give a date for when the app might be ready.

Asked how she monitored whether people were isolating and not spreading the virus, Baroness Harding admitted she did not have data on compliance and added that trust was key.
Clueless, as usual ......

IMO, she gets successive sinecures because she's the granddaughter of Field Marshal John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, who commanded the Desert Rats in World War II, and therefore "owed" a living .....
 
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