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Back in June of 2020 the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released the COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application or COCOA for short. It was quickly discovered that an actual cup of cocoa would be more effective at curbing the disease than this app, with only 0.03 percent of infections having been confirmed on it…
Although many pandemics have occurred throughout human history, digital technology enables the development of new tools for dealing with these events.
The problematic software, called Cocoa, is just the latest headache for the delayed games, which has been beset by everything from allegations of plagiarism for its original official logo to a high-profile delay due to the pandemic. — AP Organisers for the Tokyo Olympics are asking athletes and teams to install a smartphone app that tracks their movements to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus when they arrive in Japan, but there’s just one problem. “It’s not a good app,” Minister for Digital Transformation Takuya Hirai said last month, following a series of high-profile glit...
What’s it like traveling to Japan, six months ahead of the Olympics? Almost impossible, unless you’re a Japanese national or a foreigner with resident status. A state of emergency for a large part of the country means that even those special cases who are allowed in have to take multiple…
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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Japan govt’s contact-tracing app malfunctioning for months on Android smartphones [The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo / Asia News Network] Feb. 4—COCOA, the government’s smartphone app that notifies users if they might have come in contact with someone who has been infected with the novel coronavirus, has been malfunctioning on Android smartphones since late last September, the health ministry announced on Wednesday. This means that 30% of the app’s users have been unable to use its functions for four months. The ministry apologized and expressed its intention to ...