COVID-19 Tracking Applications Acceptance among General Populace: An Overview in Malaysia

Mahmoud Al-shami; Rawad Abdulghafor; Abdulaziz Aborujilah; Abubakar Yagoub; Sherzod Turaev; Mohammed A.H. Ali

doi:10.3390/su15054060

COVID-19 Tracking Applications Acceptance among General Populace: An Overview in Malaysia

Mahmoud Al-shami, Rawad Abdulghafor, Abdulaziz Aborujilah, Abubakar Yagoub, Sherzod Turaev, Mohammed A.H. Ali

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments to implement strategies for contact tracing due to the disease’s ease of spread. The Malaysian government has sought to develop and implement a digital contact-tracking application to make it easier and faster to detect the spread; the system has become an integral part of the exit strategy from mandated lockdowns. These applications keep track of the user’s proximity with others who are in the system to inform them early on if they are at a risk of infection. The effectiveness of these applications depends on the willingness of users to install and allow the application to track their location at all times. Therefore, this research aims to identify the factors that would stimulate or slow down the adoption of contact-tracing apps.

Original language	English
Article number	4060
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054060
Publication status	Published - Mar 2023

Keywords

COVID-19
model
tracing

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Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Geography, Planning and Development
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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