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Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing

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Part of the book series: Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing (SBRIEFSC, volume 11)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
  2. Chapter 1 Introduction

    • Ahmed Elmokashfi, Olav Lysne, Valeriya Naumova
    Pages 1-9Open Access
  3. Chapter 2 Smittestopp for Android and iOS

    • Per Magne Florvaag, Henrik Aasen Kjeldsberg, Sebastian Kenji Mitusch
    Pages 11-27Open Access
  4. Chapter 3 Smittestopp Backend

    • Cise Midoglu, Benjamin Ragan-Kelley, Sven-Arne Reinemo, Jon Jahren, Pål Halvorsen
    Pages 29-62Open Access
  5. Chapter 4 Smittestopp analytics: Analysis of position data

    • Vajira Thambawita, Steven A. Hicks, Ewan Jaouen, Pål Halvorsen, Michael A. Riegler
    Pages 63-79Open Access
  6. Chapter 5 Using Bluetooth for contact tracing

    • Ahmed Elmokashfi, Amund Kvalbein
    Pages 81-98Open Access
  7. Chapter 6 Digital tracing, validation, and reporting

    • Ahmed Elmokashfi, Simon Funke, Timo Klock, Miroslav Kuchta, Valeriya Naumova, Julie Uv
    Pages 99-120Open Access
  8. Chapter 7 Data aggregation and anonymization for mathematical modeling and epidemiological studies

    • Are Magnus Bruaset, Glenn Terje Lines, Joakim Sundnes
    Pages 121-141Open Access

About this book

This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down.  The intention of this book is twofold.  First, it reports on the design choices made in the development phase.  Second, as one of the only systems in the world that collected population data into a central database and which was used for an entire population, we can share experience on how the design choices impacted the system's operation. By sharing lessons learned and the challenges faced during the development and deployment of the technology, we hope that this book can be a valuable guide for experts from different domains, such as big data collection and analysis, application development, and deployment in a national population, as well as digital tracing.


Keywords

  • Open Access
  • digital contract tracing
  • Covid-19
  • public health
  • pandemic
  • BLE
  • GPS

Editors and Affiliations

  • SimulaMet, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

    Ahmed Elmokashfi, Olav Lysne

  • Simula Consulting, Oslo, Norway

    Valeriya Naumova

Bibliographic Information

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