Smart, Healthy Communities Initiative
CU-Citizen Access (January 12, 2022)
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.
Daily Illini (December 17, 2021)
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.
University of Illinois President Tim Killeen on Monday honored 28 key leaders of the system’s COVID-19 response with the Presidential Medallion. The medallion is the highest honor that the system president can bestow. Award recipients from the Rokwire project William Sullivan, professor of Landscape Architecture and director of the Smart, Healthy, Communities Initiative. John M. Paul,…
Rokwire leaders were honored, along with other members of the University of Illinois, with the Research Response to Community Crisis Award, given by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The award recognizes the innovative and immensely effective SHIELD COVID-19 testing program. The program developed one of the first COVID-19 PCR tests from saliva samples, and organized…
The University of Wisconsin knew they wanted to make modifications from the University of Illinois model Safer Illinois app. Would the ROKWIRE platform allow such changes easily?
Daily Illini (April 5, 2021)
This article describes how the University of Illinois expanded its saliva-based COVID-19 testing to families and schools in the Champaign-Urbana area in 2021. This expanded testing is supported by Rokwire’s Safer Community app.
AWS Public Sector Blog Team (October 9, 2020) This Amazon Web Services blog post describes how the University of Illinois uses mobile applications to support a safe return to campus. The University Safer Illinois app can track users’ symptoms, record COVID-19 test results, get connected to medical resources, and help with contact tracing. Safer Illinois uses AWS…
A Daily Illini article by Amrita Bhattacharyya describes an overlooked feature of the Safer Illinois app: medical advice that students can get. The Safer Illinois app is primarily used to track COVID-19 test results and gain access to buildings, but it also provides medical advice to students who may be isolating. Students can use the…
