North appoints same sofware firm as South to develop its contact tracing app
Authorities in the North believe that Nearform’s technology will be more compatible than a British company’s
Northern Ireland’s contact tracing app is to be built by the same firm which developed the Republic’s technology, the Business Post understands.
Nearform, a Waterford-based firm, said in a blog post last week that it was working with a number of unnamed governments and health authorities.
It is understood that one of these is the North, which rejected the British National Health Service’s app last month over concerns that...
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