CU-Citizen Access
Get the behind-the-scenes story of how researchers at the University of Illinois developed their saliva-based test and processed 100,000 tests a day, with the help of the Rokwire Safer Illinois app.
The News-Gazette
Rokwire is developing an app-based tool to help reduce crime and violence in the C-U community.
Rokwire Project. “Let’s Make Smart Communities a Reality.” White paper. May 2021.
An interdisciplinary team from the Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative at the University of Illinois is building Rokwire: an open source digital ecosystem for mobile devices to enable the smart, healthy communities of the future. It integrates a community’s digital resources and delivers them all on mobile. Our goal is to enhance human capabilities; to create healthier, safer, more equitable, sustainable places; to foster better decision-making; and to fuel innovation.
Vikram Sharma Mailthody et al. “Safer Illinois and RokWall: Privacy Preserving University Health Apps for COVID-19.” March 2021. Preprint.
This paper analyzes two computing infrastructures (Safer Illinois and RokWall) under development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Ranoa, Diana Rose E., et al. “Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission at a Large Public University.” MedRxiv, June 9, 2022. Nature Communications 13, art. 3207. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.03.21261548.
In fall 2020, universities saw extensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among their populations, threatening the health of the university and surrounding communities and viability of in-person instruction. Here we report a case study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where a multimodal “SHIELD: Target, Test, and Tell” program, with other nonpharmaceutical interventions, was employed to keep classrooms and laboratories open.
The University of Wisconsin knew they wanted to make modifications from the University of Illinois model Safer Illinois app. Would the ROKWIRE platform allow such changes easily?
Daily Illini
This article describes how the University of Illinois expanded its saliva-based COVID-19 testing to families and schools in the Champaign-Urbana area in 2021. This expanded testing is supported by Rokwire’s Safer Community app.
Safer Illinois app cited in publication.
Kim, Junghwan, and Mei-Po Kwan. International Journal of Geo-Information. January 2021. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10010025.
This paper examines people’s privacy concerns, perceptions of social benefits, and acceptance of various COVID-19 control measures that harness location information using data collected through an online survey in the U.S. and South Korea.
AWS Public Sector Blog
Learn how the University of Illinois used mobile applications to support a safe return to campus.
The Daily Illini
An article by Amrita Bhattacharyya describes an overlooked feature of the Safer Illinois app: medical advice that students can get. The Safer Illinois app is primarily used to track COVID-19 test results and gain access to buildings, but it also provides medical advice to students who may be isolating.
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