Rokwire: The Open-Source Platform behind the Illinois App and More
Posted on November 29, 2023
The Daily Illini
Rokwire is setting up new Illinois app contributors for success and will be adding features to the next release in early 2024.
Rokwire in the News
Rokwire Named Title Sponsor of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference
Rokwire will serve as a title sponsor of the 2023 annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. This year’s theme focuses on ways “campuses and cities embrace shared understandings and a commitment to fostering greater resilience.”
Illinois app seeks to create ‘frictionless’ student experience
The Daily Illini
Learn how the Illinois app is making the student experience better. “A lot of our efforts are trying to understand the barriers to students’ success . . . and how we can use this technology to reduce those hurdles.”
Mums the word: Students find friendship through meme joke on Illinois app
The Daily Illini
Rokwire’s Illinois app allows anyone with a NetID to create a group chat for friends or people with shared interests. The group function is one of many new abilities available in “Illinois 4,” the updated version of the Illinois app.
SHIELD Program a Model for Effective Pandemic Management, Data Show
Illinois News Bureau
Learn about how the Safer Illinois app supported the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s efforts to keep the campus community safe during the pandemic. This article summarizes the findings of a recent journal article published in Nature Communications that provides a thorough report of the University’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program.
Illinois app deadname issue reignites conversation about trans issues on campus
The Daily Illini
Learn about how the Illinois app’s building access function ignited a conversation about displaying preferred names vs. legal names.
Rokwire and COVID-19 testing at the University of Illinois
CU-Citizen Access
Get the behind-the-scenes story of how researchers at the University of Illinois developed their saliva-based test and processed 100,000 tests a day, with the help of the Rokwire Safer Illinois app.
University Transitions to Illinois App for Building Access
Daily Illini
The University of Illinois is recommending that students, faculty and staff transition to using the Illinois app to display their COVID-19 Building Access Status.
Rokwire app-based tool to help curb gun violence
The News-Gazette
Rokwire is developing an app-based tool to help reduce crime and violence in the C-U community.
Students in Translation Studies Program Translate Safer Illinois to Portuguese and Other Languages
Students at the University of Illinois in the Translation Studies Program are leveraging their unique skills to make open-source contributions to the Rokwire Community. Their professor Kara Warburton, in collaboration with the Rokwire team, has tasked her students with localizing text strings in the Safer Illinois app for other languages. The contribution project counts towards…
