[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Why don’t we just base ours on the Italian App, which has been out for a couple of weeks, or the German App which has had 7 million downloads in one day?

https://9to5mac.com/2020/06/12/conta...app-downloads/

https://www.thelocal.de/20200617/new...ds-in-24-hours

Jimmy Wale, founder of Wikipedia has said the very same thoughts:

If the NHS will support it, I could roll out the German Corona-Warn-App (privacy respecting, official diagnosis rather than self-reporting as I understand it) in short time at zero cost to the taxpayers.
If the government can't pull themselves together, we can.

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/stat...40187163852801