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their Singapore pilot
The Singapore study was not Debug’s own pilot. Official sources say the program was founded and led by Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA), with Debug/Verily participating as a partner and contractor.
Full reasoning
This phrase misattributes the Singapore trial to Google’s Debug project.
Debug’s own 2018 announcement said it had “become a partner” in Project Wolbachia – Singapore, which it described as “a multi-year research program founded and led by Singapore’s NEA.” NEA’s materials likewise describe the work as Project Wolbachia – Singapore, state that NEA has been testing and implementing it through a phased approach, and say the published multi-site field study came from that NEA program.
NEA’s September 2018 release also shows Verily/Debug joined an ongoing Phase 2 field study and that Phase 1 had already been conducted by NEA’s Environmental Health Institute. That means the published Singapore results are from an NEA-led public-health program that Debug supported, not from a Singapore pilot owned by Debug itself.
So the results can fairly be described as results from Singapore’s Project Wolbachia / NEA-led trial, but calling it “their Singapore pilot” incorrectly assigns ownership of the pilot to Debug.
3 sources
- Debug Project: Singapore welcomes the Debug Project!
“Today ... we have become a partner in Project Wolbachia – Singapore, a multi-year research program founded and led by Singapore’s NEA.”
- Wolbachia-Aedes Mosquito Suppression Strategy
NEA says the Project Wolbachia multi-site field study has been published and that “NEA has been testing and implementing Wolbachia-Aedes suppression via a phased approach.”
- Project Wolbachia - Singapore Welcomes New Collaborator For Ongoing Phase 2 Field Study
NEA said Verily joined “the ongoing Phase 2 field study,” while “Phase 1 ... [was] conducted ... by NEA’s Environmental Health Institute (EHI).”