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Daily Illini

The University of Illinois is recommending that students, faculty and staff transition to using the Illinois app to display their COVID-19 Building Access Status.

The News-Gazette

Rokwire is developing an app-based tool to help reduce crime and violence in the C-U community.

Students at the University of Illinois in the Translation Studies Program are leveraging their unique skills to make open-source contributions to the Rokwire Community. Their professor Kara Warburton, in collaboration with the Rokwire team, has tasked her students with localizing text strings in the Safer Illinois app for other languages.

University of Illinois Newsroom

University of Illinois President Tim Killeen on Monday honored 28 key leaders of the system’s COVID-19 response with the Presidential Medallion. The medallion is the highest honor that the system president can bestow.

Illinois News Bureau

Rokwire leaders were honored, along with other members of the University of Illinois, with the Research Response to Community Crisis Award, given by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

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.

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.