This computer app is being used by several colleges to help them make informed decisions about on-campus activity related to Covid-19
Yavapai Community College is trying out a new computer app that is designed to help it identify and trace persons in the college community who may have become infected with Covid-19. The idea is to encourage the Community College community to self-screen. The app is described as having the goal of creating “a culture of awareness and social responsibility. It also helps to scale the availability of care providers by reducing the volume of worried students and employees returning to campus.”
The #CampusClear app is said to be “a partnership initiative between Ivy.ai, Creighton University and Stony Brook University that formed to provide a technological solution to the challenge of self-screening (or self-surveying) as a foundational strategy of the return-to-campus initiative.”
From the Blog’s perspective, the app is still in pretty early development but may prove useful.
Below is the statement by President Lisa Rhine made August 18 about the app. It contains more details.