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The STAYAWAY COVID application is one of the most popular in Portugal today. This application, whose installation is voluntary, allows to identify, quickly and anonymously and through physical proximity, the networks of contagion by COVID-19. Then it informs users that they have been in the same space 14 in the same space as someone infected with the new coronavirus.
But how much did it cost to develop the STAYAWAY COVID app? According to the latest information, it was close to 400 thousand euros.
The disclosure was made by Rui Oliveira, administrator of INESC TEC at ECO. As revealed, the StayAway application "had no public funding" and its estimated value is around 400 thousand euros. Regarding the value and, specifically, what generated the expense, Rui Oliveira says that it was mainly in human resources (programmers).
Essentially human resources. We also had the expense of creating the complete image, all the communication. Even today, we are sending image support to hundreds of institutions and companies in the country, to promote dissemination. So there are also these support costs.
The financing is, to date, from INESC TEC. According to Rui Oliveira, INESC TEC is "a non-profit institution and we compensate it or we will have losses, and this loss will affect human resources."
Rui Oliveira says, however, that ...
At this moment, for us, for the INESC TEC and ISPUP team, everything has paid off, because we have more than three dozen people who have already sent the code and, therefore, it is already more than rewarding.
The Portuguese Stayaway Covid app has already installed more than 1 million people. According to data from INESC TEC, there will be 6.5 million people who will be able to install and use this application. Thus, the accounts made are missing 5 million.
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