Immuni

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Immuni
Developer Bending Spoons
Initial release1 June 2020;5 years ago (2020-06-01)
Repository
Written in Kotlin, Python, Swift
Operating system Android and iOS
Available in5 languages
List of languages
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Type COVID-19 app
Licence GNU AGPLv3
Website www.immuni.italia.it   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Immuni was an open-source COVID-19 contact tracing app used for digital contact tracing in Italy, dismissed on 31 December 2022, after a long and debated criticism for having been a failure due to the lack of trust placed by citizens. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Immuni COVID-19 contact-tracing app had in fact been downloaded only by 12% of Italians between 14 and 75 years old (the government had previously stated that, in order for the app to work properly, it should have been downloaded by at least 60% of Italians). [6] It makes use of the Apple/Google Exposure Notification system. [7]

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Development

It was developed by Bending Spoons and released by the Italian Ministry of Health on 1 June 2020. After a testing phase in 4 Italian regions (Abruzzo, Apulia, Liguria, Marche), the app started being active in the whole country on 15 June 2020. [8] The app was initially released on App Store and Google Play, and since 1 February 2021 it is available on the Huawei AppGallery as well.[ citation needed ]

Source code

The source code was published on GitHub on the 25 May. [9] The app only works in Italy, but compatibility with other European contact tracing apps was a goal. [10] Since 19 October 2020 the app supports key-exchanges with the EU Interoperability Gateway and is therefore able to communicate with contact tracing apps of other EU countries. [11]

Shutdown

As of 16 December 2020, the app was downloaded more than 10 million times, a number which increased to 21.882.502 downloads the day before the app's shutdown. [12]

On 27 December 2022 the Italian Ministry of Health announced that the app and its infrastructures will be dismissed on the 31 December of the same year. [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Il fallimento di Immuni. Occasione tech mancata nella lotta al Covid". 6 February 2022. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Il grande fallimento di Immuni. Sull'app presenti solo il 2% dei positivi". 21 January 2022. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Il fallimento di Immuni è costato molto caro. L'equivalente in Germania funziona benissimo". 9 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Perché Immuni non piace". 24 November 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Il fallimento di Immuni spiegato dagli esperti". 13 February 2021. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Lessons From the Italian COVID-19 Contact Tracing Fiasco". Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Pollina, Angelo Amante (11 June 2020). "Italians embrace coronavirus tracing app as privacy fears ease". Reuters.
  8. ↑ "Italy's virus tracing app Immuni gets good reception". 3 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Immuni - Commissario straordinario per l'emergenza COVID-19". GitHub .
  10. ↑ Abboud, Leila; Khan, Mehreen (7 August 2020). "EU contact tracing scheme will not include French app". Financial Times.
  11. ↑ "EU contact-tracing app interoperability gateway goes live | Computer Weekly". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  12. ↑ Nova, Redazione Agenzia (2022-12-27). "From December 31st the Immuni app will stop working". Agenzia Nova. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  13. ↑ "Dismissione Piattaforma contact tracing digitale e APP IMMUNI". www.salute.gov.it (in Italian). Ministero della Salute. 2022-12-27. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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