Posted: Feb 11, 2021 6:32 AM ET | Last Updated: February 11
Entrepreneurs who started WETech Alliance pose for a picture with MPP Sandra Pupatello in 2011 at the inaugural news conference of the agency.(WETech Alliance)
Ten years ago, Jakub Koter and his partners Ali Al-Aasm and Andy Kale had just been laid off from a marketing firm for Chrysler when they started the tech company Red Piston. They now employ 10 people and have expanded past producing apps and branched out into social media marketing and software.
Red Piston was one of the first clients of another new venture called WETech Alliance. WETech was formed by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to see Windsor-Essex have an agency they could turn to help them access the supports they need to get their businesses off the ground.
“We’re trying to make traceability less daunting, more efficient and more secure for businesses.”
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit mandates storing such personal data to help it trace where infected persons have gone and who may have been exposed and when.
That requirement has led to the common sight of sheets of paper filled with personal contact information and buckets of pens for people to use on shop or restaurant counters.
It relieves the burden on business
Those papers have to be stored by businesses for a period to ensure they’re not needed to hunt down those that may have been exposed to the virus.