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Drammen Municipality is one of the three Norwegian municipalities that has been the test rabbit for the Smittestopp app from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health for 11 days.
Still, only 25 percent of people over the age of 16 have downloaded the app, making the trial period difficult.
– It is still so that we have made all the discoveries and close contacts with manual infection tracking. So far, the app hasn’t found any cases that we haven’t found manually, says Einar Sagberg, infection prevention consultant at Drammen.
The plan is for the app’s infection tracking feature to be rolled out to the entire Norwegian population by the end of the month. So far, only the three test municipalities Drammen, Tromsø and Trondheim have had the opportunity to send SMS to contagious contacts.
Trusted Expert Group
However, the government and the Institute of Public Health requested that all Norwegians download the app when it launched on April 16 this year. Even Prime Minister Erna Solberg downloaded it.
This happened despite the fact that the appointed and independent expert group felt it was premature to launch it to the entire population.
– We thought it was perfectly fine to go out and test the application in the test municipalities, but it was thought that it was too early to implement it in the entire population with some of the weaknesses that existed at the time, says Jeanine Lilleng.
She is the leader of the expert group to assess application security and any vulnerabilities. The group consists of seven members who have experience and expertise in technical development and operational experience with mobile solutions. Little is CTO
and COO in the Trondheim-based MazeMap-based digital mapping service.
“Without insight and the ability to evaluate, access management, access logging, data deletion, and aggregation procedures in Azure, it’s hard to recommend the app for its full launch in Norway starting today. To get started to try in two
municipalities, as described by the FHI, we consider a reasonable next step. We also recommend that the user clearly understand that the application is in a testing phase, ”states the first report of the group of experts delivered to the Ministry of Health and Care Services on April 9, 2020.
– Good use of data from the entire population.
The report was submitted seven days before the National Institute of Public Health launched the Infection Stop app.
– We have done in many ways what they indicate that one should do, namely, first have a step-by-step introduction in three municipalities. So I think it’s in line with what the expert group says, Gun Peggy Knudsen tells TV 2.
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