Explore

Learn More

Stay Connected

Follow along

Get the newsletter Get all our stories delivered

Contributor

Riley Kaminer

is a technology researcher and writer, and an Associate at GovTech advisory firm StateUp.

A group of robotics engineers and doctors test a ventilator being developed as part of the fight against the novel coronavirus COVID-19, at the neonatology laboratory in the Clinicas Hospital, of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Republic (Udelar), in Montevideo, on April 22, 2020. - When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Uruguay, doctor Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of an air plane crash in the Chilean Andes in 1972, developed a rudimentary ventilator to help patients. He then partnered up with robotic engineers and doctors to develop four additional ventilators that are currently being tested to help COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)

News 12 February 2021

Why Uruguay’s “miracle” Covid-19 app failed to deliver

When the pandemic hit, hundreds of Uruguay's top technologists came together to create a Covid app, but that feel-good moment was short-lived.