Centre launches competition for strengthening COVID-19 vaccine digital network
The applicants who emerge as the top 5 will be provided with CoWIN Application Programming Interface (APIs) to showcase the efficacy of the solutions they have suggested and for later possible integration with the CoWIN platform
BusinessToday.In | December 24, 2020 | Updated 16:02 IST
The Health Ministry is in search of technical solutions which can solve problems related to portability, transportation of the COVID-19 vaccines
The Centre on Wednesday launched a technology competition which invites solutions from IT firms and start-ups to help strengthen the government s digital platform CoWIN. CoWIN is a digital platform developed by the Centre for rolling out and scaling up COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the country.
Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 14:59 IST
CoWIN will be a digitalised platform to be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution System, nationally. Govt launches CoWIN challenge, winner to get Rs 40 lakh
New Delhi: The government of India on Wednesday announced the launch of a technology contest to invite solutions from IT companies and start-ups to strengthen digital platform ‘CoWIN’, a grand challenge by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for strengthening the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system. India s innovators have played a crucial role in our fight against COVID-19. I invite innovators and start-ups for a grand challenge to strengthen CoWIN platform for roll out of COVID-19 vaccination program across India, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in the statement.
New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) The government on Wednesday launched a technology contest to invite solutions from IT companies and start-ups to strengthen digital platform CoWIN, which will be used for rolling out and scaling up COVID vaccine distribution across the country. The government is enhancing use of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system, which provides real-time information on vaccine stocks and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in the country to address the needs for distribution and tracking of COVID-19 vaccine. The contest will be jointly run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and IT, a statement said.
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On a large scale, humanity is constantly struggling against bacteria and disease as well as non-communicable diseases. Today our focus is on primary prevention. In the near future, we will treat age as a disease that not only can be cured but can be prevented.
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n a large scale, humanity is constantly struggling against bacteria and disease as well as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Today our focus is on primary prevention (intervening before a disease is developed) or secondary prevention (preventing progression of a disease when you are already sick). In the near future, we will be solving for “primordial prevention,” looking at the prevention of the risk factors in the first place, and we will treat age as a disease that not only can be “cured” but can be prevented. Here, we’ll track the research that is transforming our understanding of the human body and, ultimately, saving lives.
The government on Wednesday launched a technology contest to invite solutions from IT companies and start-ups to strengthen digital platform CoWIN, which will be used for rolling out and scaling up COVID vaccine distribution across the country. The government is enhancing use of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system, which provides real-time information on vaccine stocks and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in the country to address the needs for distribution and tracking of COVID-19 vaccine. The contest will be jointly run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Electronics and IT, a statement said.