{"id":40162,"date":"2021-03-25T22:47:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/17224ea2-fe7b-4e8e-9f6a-46ce6dff5829"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:47:29","slug":"australias-covidsafe-app-costs-au100000-per-month-to-keep-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/australias-covidsafe-app-costs-au100000-per-month-to-keep-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s COVIDSafe app costs AU$100,000 per month to keep running"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/hub\/i\/2020\/05\/18\/0b65e3f5-c9c5-4dbb-aa39-f002d88afb60\/covidsafe.png\" class alt=\"covidsafe.png\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s coronavirus contact tracing app, COVIDSafe, was sold as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australians-urged-to-take-up-mental-health-telehealth-and-put-on-digital-sunscreen\/\">digital sunscreen<\/a>&#8221; with people encouraged by the Prime Minister to download the app in order to have life return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/canberra-using-a-cold-beer-on-a-friday-as-a-guilt-trip-to-download-covidsafe\/\">some form of normal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been over 7 million downloads of the app, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it&#8217;s logged into, or being used by individuals that have the app taking up real estate on their phone. <\/p>\n<p>The app has received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/dta-knew-of-weak-iphone-covidsafe-performance-despite-go-live\/\">scrutiny from the country&#8217;s security community<\/a> from day one, and it has only accounted for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/dta-still-backing-covidsafe-despite-only-picking-up-17-contacts\/\">total of 17 cases found<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>with 81 close contacts of those 17 identified through the app, too. The Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 also previously said the app significantly under-delivered on Scott Morrison&#8217;s promise that the app would enable an opening up of the economy in a COVID safe manner.<\/p>\n<p>As previously disclosed by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), the app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australian-committee-calls-for-independent-review-of-covidsafe-app\/\">cost in excess of AU$5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DTA CEO Randall Brugeaud told senators on Thursday night that the cost to keep the app&#8217;s lights on, so far, has been around AU$900,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spend to date on the app is AU$6,745,322.31, that&#8217;s to 31 January,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That includes a combination of development, which is the actual build of the app, and the hosting of the app. So the breakdown is, for the development of the app, AU$5,844,182.51 and the hosting is AU$901,139.80.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\"> <\/section>\n<p>Brugeaud said COVIDSafe has moved into the &#8220;business as usual state&#8221;, which means the DTA simply applies &#8220;very small amounts of maintenance&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It costs about AU$100,000 per month to run the infrastructure and we&#8217;ve made a provision for about AU$200,000 per month to allow us to make future changes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now, that isn&#8217;t money that must be spent, but we&#8217;ve estimated about AU$200,000 a month for future feature changes that may be required by the Department of Health who is the business owner of the app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Labor Senator Nita Green asked why there was a need to continue sinking funds into an app that has barely been used.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COVIDSafe was developed based on the health need and it will continue to be supported until we&#8217;re advised that capability is no longer required,&#8221; Brugeaud said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it seems like a small number, 17 \u2026 I think it was 774 detections that have occurred, but just think through 17 people going undetected, and what that might look like in terms of shutdowns,&#8221; Minister for Families and Social Services Anne Ruston added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though it may seem like a small number, that could have had a very significant impact on the health outcomes or the economic outcomes for our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ruston said the app was designed at a time when it was thought Australia would have a lot more cases than it did. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not withstanding that, it was something that was put in place at the time, an unknown time, it has served a purpose, whether it has served as much of a purpose as perhaps it might otherwise &#8212; but, clearly the health officers, the CMOs in both Victoria and New South Wales have both indicated that they believe that the app has had provided a very positive opportunity and benefit to their states,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a decision that was taken that has provided some value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brugeaud said there could be more contacts located via the app, but legislation is preventing the government from having access to the data.<\/p>\n<p>He also said, however, the app has received &#8220;very good feedback&#8221; from the tech community to help the DTA improve the app.<\/p>\n<h3>Digital vaccination record limbo<\/h3>\n<p>Last month, Minister for Government Services Stuart Robert touted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/vaccination-smartphone-passport-to-log-aussie-covid-19-jabs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vaccination passport<\/a>, a digital record confirming people have received the jab through the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will have a record, they will have a digital and paper certificate. 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