8: "Estonia: Making Contact?"

Stuart Garlick and Maris Hellrand talk to Priit Tohver, E-services Development and Innovation Policy Adviser for the Ministry of Social Affairs, who among other tasks is one of the leads for the Estonian contact tracing app, Hoia, due to be released on 20 August on iOS and Android. The app has been slow in development, and they look into reasons for this.

They also talk to SALTO 'Hack the Virus' Hackathon winner Sophie Wharrie, whose team developed a contact tracing app in the Estonian tech event, but whose experience was not used by the government in spite of an offer allegedly being made by her team. She discusses the need for reliable contact tracing in all countries. Sophie's Medium article: https://medium.com/the-innovation/beyond-the-contact-tracing-app-fd6930a4c934

Theme music by Kaiolyn: https://youtu.be/arD4tfzH3U0