COVID Alert App Cost Canada $20 Million, Used Only 869 Times in November

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  • covid-alert-app

    Discontinued Exposure notification client application / Application client de notification d'exposition

  • The vast majority (75%+) of the money spent on the app was on advertising and promotion. Looking at the commit history of the COVID Alert, it appears that all commits since August 13 2020 have been by the government's developers ("Canadian Digital Services") which would mean that the bulk of the actual app-related costs would be internal salaries and operational/hosting costs.

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