The French government has entrusted Inria with the operational management of the research and development project called ‘StopCovid’, which brings together the expertise of national players, both public and private, within the StopCovid project team. All these players are contributing to the work already under way to provide all French citizens with a tool to better protect them against Covid19.
Sharing the guidelines set by the Government, the project is based on five foundations:
> The use of the StopCovid app as part of the global strategy for managing the health crisis and epidemiological monitoring. StopCovid project is an additional brick that provides public health actors with a decision-making support for the deconfinement phase.
> Strict compliance with the data protection and privacy framework at national and European level, as defined in particular by French law and the RGPD, as well as the toolbox recently defined by the European Commission on proximity monitoring applications.
> Transparency, which notably involves the dissemination, under an open source license, of the specific work carried out…
