Publication Type
News Article
Publication Date
7-2021
Abstract
Don’t blame the technology. COVID-19 control technology depends on the cooperation of people to be fully effective, says SMU Professor Mark Findlay. Singapore has one of the best subscribed COVID-19 tracing, tracking and safe entry apps worldwide. Then how is it that we are back to Phase 2 (Heightened Alert)? It would be tempting but wrong to blame the technology as being insufficiently intrusive or robust. A look at the recent outbreak suggests we should avoid an over-reliance on tech solutions when incompatible human behaviours are at work.
Keywords
Covid-19, contact tracing apps, technology, human behavior, hawker centres, karoke lounges, fishery port, wet markets, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Health Information Technology | Public Health
Research Areas
Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice
Publication
Channel NewsAsia
Citation
FINDLAY, Mark.
TraceTogether and SafeEntry were never foolproof in averting recent fishery port and KTV clusters. (2021). Channel NewsAsia.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3451
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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/ktv-fishery-port-clusters-what-happened-contact-tracing-testing-2060496