By Harlyn Pacheco
The lives of millions of Latin Americans operate exclusively on smartphones. Mobile usage is growing fast, with users predicted to rise from 62 per cent of the population in 2017, to 79 per cent in 2025, according to Statista. The adoption of applications that bring services and opportunities to millions of smartphone owners in sectors such as fintech, eCommerce, food delivery, and ride-hailing is expanding across the region, with no signs of abating.
By Khari Johnson
At present, most of the U.S. population is being asked to stay home to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic, but as hundreds of millions of people begin to think about how to return to normal life, the need to trace the spread of the disease becomes crucially important. Public health officials traditionally use manual methods to conduct contact tracing, or mapping out who has a disease and who they come into contact with.
