  The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing enormous global challenges in managing the
spread of the virus. A key pillar to mitigation is contact tracing, which
complements testing and isolation. Digital apps for contact tracing using
Bluetooth technology available in smartphones have gained prevalence globally.
In this article, we discuss various capabilities of such digital contact
tracing, and its implication on community safety and individual privacy, among
others. We further describe the GoCoronaGo institutional contact tracing app
that we have developed, and the conscious and sometimes contrarian design
choices we have made. We offer a detailed overview of the app, backend platform
and analytics, and our early experiences with deploying the app to over 1000
users within the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bangalore. We also
highlight research opportunities and open challenges for digital contact
tracing and analytics over temporal networks constructed from them.
