Just published this article re first use of the app’s alert function + surge in uptake https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/521456/COVID-Tracer-App-alert-sent-as-virus-re-emerges.htm
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Hi All,
Thinking about education in the workplace (or anywhere else for that matter), does anyone know of any App Posters that are available with instructions? All i can find is the QR bar code poster on the M.O.H site.
Thanks
Ben
This poster is about where to put the QR poster, but that might not be what you are after:
how_to_display_your_qr_code_poster_0.pdf (202.5 KB)
It isn’t a poster per se, but here is a useful 2 minute video:
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Thanks for that Nathan, i was hoping for something that i could put in tea rooms and corridors to push hard to remind staff. Hard to “sell” to the public if we don’t have all healthcare staff using it. 
Saying that, its great to see the number of users rocketing up.
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Good idea Ben:
- do you want how information? Ie. how to get the app?
- do you want why information? Ie. why it is important?
Who is the audience - guessing health staff?
I think we have this content but not in poster form - it has come out to the DHBs - but might be good to put it here so you guys can print and post it up?
Jon
Hi Jon,
Yes, that’s the sort of thing i’m thinking would be helpful. Currently it would be for health staff, however if its written the right way, there’s no reason we couldn’t place it in patient areas such as waiting rooms or even Primary Healthcare where people are sitting and waiting to be seen. Driving the message hard (when they are on their phones anyway) may help recruitment to the app?
Ben
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Great - have sent your idea on to our comms/change people - will come back to here on when I have something.
Jon
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Hey Dave - here is a paper from Trinity College in Dublin that has been informing our thinking around Bluetooth in general for any implementation in the Card or the app:
We can talk more next week but the conversations we have had internationally are that confirming close contacts from Bluetooth is quite risky due to false positive rates. False positives are risky for two reasons:
- As case numbers grow and the Contact Tracing workforce increases we bring more inexperienced people in. Large numbers of false positives have the risk of overwhelming these staff making the process longer not shorter.
- If there are a large number of false positives the communities trust in us will reduce and people are more likely to ignore our advice to self-isolate or get tested.
I would be interested in what the group here thought about false positive rates - as an example of scale the number of contacts found in Singapore with their system is about 1,000 per case (it comes with the number of contacts with each unique ID and total time so is rankable).
Whether we can solve this in the real world with the card is still an open question and hence the need for the further trial.
In the context of the app we are thinking that it would be used to identify casual contacts rather than close contacts - we are assessing the value of this and the risks at the moment.
Hope this helps,
Jon
These ones already exist:
https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/posters/COVID-19-Contact-tracing-app-retail-poster-A4.pdf
https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources/posters/COVID-19-Contact-tracing-app-retail-poster-A3.pdf
But have suggested turning the FAQs into a poster too given how long people sit in waiting rooms
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Pester power may also be helpful.
Churches, schools, Guides, Scouts, TV, Marae.
Community messaging to Kids - help grannny set up her app.
Guides/scouts could have a badge for it ie i’ve taught 5 people how to use it. (I’m a Covid app Ninja)
Kids tell mum and dad off if they don’t use it.
On - hold message for govt. depts, health units, musak all have message.
Prof. Dave Parry
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I’d like to see the supermarkets etc produce business cards with their QR codes on them so we can scan them in the car before going in to the store.
Also if they provided free WiFi, your phone could perhaps login to their network and register your presence automatically.
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Now that I’m using mine regularly it’s also fast and no issues (on Android). It’s faster if I open the app before I leave home and just have to point the phone at a QR code. Works even at a distance – went to get take away food on Friday and was standing a fair distance away from the code and it worked anyway.
Thanks @shayne.hunter and @jon_herries for your replies. I have two questions/suggestions:
1. Any thoughts of a manual code in case scanner not working?
Occasionally when some users try to scan their phone doesn’t recognise the QR code. If there was an alphanumeric string or keyword code associated with each QR code(and printed on the poster beside the code), then this could be entered if people were having trouble scanning the QR code.
I know you could create a manual entry, but presumably this would not then allow being alerted if an infected person was later found to be at that location at that time.
2. Sports Grounds - how to enter these?
For community sport on sports grounds, it not easy to put up QR code posters. Some sports organisations are encouraging the use if idME for this https://www.idme.co.nz/ however this involves users registering for another ap and system (I coach a team of 7 year olds and most of the parents on my son’s team would struggle to want to use two apps). If there was a manual ID you could enter, or better yet, it could use location services on the phone to narrow down lists of sports grounds to select from then we could register this way on the NZ COVID Tracer app. (For now there is of course the manual entry option, but again it doesn’t allow for being alerted as discussed above).
I realise there are probably a lot of suggestions for possible future development/refinement of the app and they need to be prioritised for those with most benifit.
Re:1 we are thinking about alternative models of collecting that data - one idea is NFC stickers - might be tricky with a manual process - is 13 digits so pretty easy to get it wrong.
Re:2 here in Wellington they have printed and laminated the posters - then zip tied them to the fence - normally the council does this - seems to work ok
Thoughts welcome.
Jon
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Thanks @jon_herries.
Re:2 In Dunedin here there doesn’t seem to be council printed posters on grounds. Also this may be tricky as many grounds don’t have a defined point of access (often park on any road around the edge of the ground and just walk on from the side.
I think you are on the money with the app, let’s not make it too complicated. Being able to manually add for sports grounds etc is great, I think maybe that part of the app needs to be ‘pushed some more. BTW both my kids with phones added the app on the eve of lockdown, one of whom was relying on a paper diary prior and the other was blissfully not recording anything. So good job!
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Just a thought about the Covid Card - would not a silicone wristband with a Bluetooth sensor in it work more effectively? Just thinking how a card will be in the wallet most of the time, and will annoy people, however wearing a wristband would be more practical for those out doing activities etc? Not sure on costing but i would have though mass produced Bluetooth sensors wristband would gain more public appeal?
In China almost everyone pays for goods using WeChat - the app POTUS wants to ban. With small vendors you use WeChat to scan the vendor’s QR code, but supermarkets will use their 2D bar code scanners to scan your personal QR code to take payment. No credit cards. No need to create a new identity.
I think this is way better. The compliance is thrust upon the business operator. They scan your QR code ( which can be a name card for those who lack the nounce to operate a smart phone ) which is issued by the Govt. It could even be your NHI number. I see my SuperGold card has a 1D bar code on it so the app the shop uses to register shoppers could scan alternate identity cards.
At present I see many people going to the shops who don’t bother scanning the business QR code. We need to fix that failing. And shop operators are an easier target than the public.
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Why didn’t we think of this?
https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/523865/NHI-to-be-added-to-tracing-app.htm
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