<story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&amp;#x2F;anfrage&amp;#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&amp;#x2F;anfrage&amp;#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gspr</author><text>What I find far more unbelievable is that countries – at least European countries that through the EU have a common legal framework – did not get together and share the bill for the development of a common open source app. Perhaps each country would have to do some minor local customization, but surely the vast majority of the code could be shared?&lt;p&gt;I frequently find myself pondering this whenever my government announces yet another contract for (the admittedly decent) IT services for interacting with state entities.</text></comment>
<story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&amp;#x2F;anfrage&amp;#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&amp;#x2F;anfrage&amp;#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yangminded</author><text>How much would you budget for this?&lt;p&gt;I am actually curious, because on the other hand you would have all the constraints like development in less than 3 months, need for the app to be waterproof in a legal sense (data protection), additional backend development and also development for both iOS and Android.</text></comment>