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General mobilization to develop the StopCovid application

2020-04-26T18:14:29.489Z


The recent opinions given by the CNIL, the CNNum and the Scientific Council sounded the best start for the development teams of a “contact tracing” application.


From the start, Inria had warned. The Institute would not work alone in the development of a contact tracing application, but it would rely on private and public partners. The list of contributors to the StopCovid project was made public this Sunday. Inria, ANSSI, Capgemini, Dassault Systèmes, Inserm, Lunabee Studio, Orange, Santé Publique France and Withings create the StopCovid project-team "in order to structure and strengthen their contribution to the government project to set up a mobile contact application tracing (StopCovid) ". All the speakers act free of charge.

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The operational management of the project was entrusted by the State to Inria. The project is based on five foundations. The StopCovid application is part of the overall health crisis management and epidemiological monitoring strategy. The project is carried out in strict compliance with the data protection and privacy framework at national and European level, as defined in particular by French law and the GDPR, as well as the toolbox recently determined by the European Commission on proximity tracking applications. Transparency will go through the dissemination in open source of specific work carried out within the framework of the project. Fourth point: respect for the principles of digital sovereignty of the public health system. And finally, the project is temporary, its lifespan will correspond, if deployed, to the duration of management of the Covid-19 epidemic, as requested by the Cnil.

Clearly identified roles

The project is carried out under the supervision of the State and gives rise to regular interactions with the independent control authorities, in particular the Cnil. It also associates the Digital Department (DINUM). Each stakeholder is assigned a specific role. Inria is therefore in charge of coordination and transmission protocol, privacy-by-design (that is to say respecting private data). Capgemini takes care of the architecture and back-end development of the application, in a way, the underlayers.

Responsibility for Dassault Systèmes to manage the sovereign qualified data infrastructure SecNumCloud

Dassault Systèmes is responsible for managing the SecNumCloud qualified sovereign data infrastructure, i.e. a sovereign cloud for data. Inserm is in charge of health models. Lunabee Studio for the development of mobile applications, so that they are accessible to the general public (applications since one will be dedicated to the Apple AppStore the other to the Android Playstore). Orange will be responsible for the distribution of the application and interoperability. Public Health France: insertion and articulation of the application in the global strategy of detection and follow-up of contacts. Finally, Withings takes care of connected objects, which gives an indication: small devices, for example bracelets, could be developed to equip people who do not have a smartphone.

"Alongside them, the entire research, innovation and business ecosystem is mobilized through the" ecosystem of contributors to StopCovid "," the press release said. The availability of open source codes facilitates these contributions.

Source: lefigaro

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