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From: kimiko knight
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2020 9:04 PM COUNTY CLERK
To: Council Testimony; Council Testimony COUNTY OF HAWA-I I
Subject: Resolution 716-20 RECEIVED
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am for Resolution 716-20 Date'- AUG 3 0 2020
This is the emergency time and this Corona Virus problem should be resolved with as soon as possible. This tracking should have I
done a lot earlier. The following is the case of Taiwan:
Digital fence
The monitoring system in Taiwan is described as a "digital fence,"whereby anyone required to undergo home quarantine has their
location monitored via cellular signals from their phones.Venturing too far from homes triggers the alert system, and calls and
messages are sent to the confinee to ascertain their whereabouts.Anyone caught breaching their quarantine can be fined up to
NT$1 million ($33,000). As the National Communications Commission,which was involved in setting up the tracking system, put it:
"They'll find you and fine you."
Taiwan began working on the system in late January, only a week after the country recorded its first imported case of the novel
coronavirus from Wuhan,the Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered. On the evening of Jan. 28,while many across the
country were still busy celebrating the Lunar New Year holidays, officials from different departments and agencies gathered to
discuss ways to monitor the growing number of people who were expected to have to undergo quarantine in the coming days.They
explored different options, including tracker wristbands--the system implemented in Hong Kong---but ultimately settled on using a
phone-based digital fence system,which they felt would be less intrusive. Within days (link in Chinese),the system was up and
running.
"We deployed this system early... in order to prevent the epidemic from seriously overburdening personnel," said Chen Chi-mai, vice
premier of the executive branch of Taiwan's government,who led the effort to set up the electronic monitoring system. "There were
a lot of people coming back from China everyday... if we were to use traditional quarantine methods, it would be impossible to
monitor everyone." (For more detail, see https:Hgz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors-55000-under-
coronavirus-quarantine/)
KIMIKO KNIGHT
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