New contact tracing app now on beta testing

A NEW smart phone application called “CoMPASS” or the CoVID Mapping Platform for Attribution and Spatial Survey is currently being tested in Zamboanga City as part of the government’s contact tracing efforts.

Mayor Beng Climaco gets a briefing from Ateneo de Zamboanga University on the new smart phone application called 'CoMPASS'.

The project is jointly developed by the Ateneo de Zamboanga University which is taking lead in the software development; the Zamboanga City Medical Center and the local government.

City Planning and Development Coordinator, Engineer Rodrigo Sicat, said the app shall have global positioning features and has the capabilities to snap photographs aside from other data it can capture.

All information from the app shall be temporarily stored in Android phone and sent to Cloud once Internet service is available. The City Database Operation Center can download the data. Each data has a unique identifier tagged to the person and the contact tracer is also registered.

The program is date and time stamped so the local government can know when the data was captured. If the app passes the beta testing, the local government will formally introduced and launch the app. (Zamboanga Post)

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