Is Contact Tracing a Public or Private Concern?

Charles Towers-Clark
4 min readAug 24, 2020
Public health contact tracing apps are ambitious and already fraught with difficulties. Wearable Sensors and private contract tracing programs maybe a better solution to reaching the crucial 60% threshold for these initiatives to be effective. NEWLAB

Technology will play a huge role in the post-Covid-19 world, especially if we are to return to normality as quickly as some hope. Contact tracing and social distancing apps are already rushing to market, with many being touted as the most comprehensive solution to keep people safe, and many failing to live up to the hype after hasty rollout.

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Charles Towers-Clark

Becoming an expert on initiative and proactiveness in organisations. Author of "The W.E.I.R.D. CEO", Forbes contributor, ex-Chairman of Pod Group.