In an
effort to further the use of technology in India ’s fight against COVID-19,
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) today
announced the successful delivery of an end to end COVID platform to the
Government of Telangana. Developed by NASSCOM’s Task Force, the platform brings
together solutions from multiple technology leaders and delivers more than 100
dashboards, across 30+ government and public datasets, with hundreds of
thousands of data points.
Working
closely with the Government of Telangana, the platform, with its various
technology led models will assist the government in sustainable industry
recovery and will help them in taking informed decision in managing lockdown
and phased release across the state. The IT industry has time and again show
its commitment to helping India and even more so through these exceptional
times, by assembling the greatest tech minds in the country to collaborate and
develop solutions.
K. T.
Rama Rao, Minister of IT of Telangana,
said, “It's wonderful to see how tech industry is joining hands with a
common goal to innovate for the war on Covid-19. India has the capacity to quickly
develop tech solutions for post-lockdown world and we are glad that
NASSCOM taskforce has collaborated with Government of Telangana and prepared an
end to end COVID platform to manage the crisis.”
Sharing
her thoughts Nivruti Rai, Country Head Intel India and VP Data Center Group, Intel
and Lead NASSCOM Task Force, said, “COVID-19 pandemic has given an
opportunity to the world to re-imagine lives with technology. Digital
transformation is demonstrating its value and its impact on the very ecology of
businesses in these tough times. We are delighted to provide the first of its
kind COVID tracking platform and Dashboard to the Government of Telangana and
will continue our work led by tech, developing solutions to fight this global
crisis. We thank the government for their continued support and trusting the
NASSCOM Task Force for delivering this project”.
As a part
of the platform, NASSCOM Taskforce has developed a COVID-19 India Vulnerability
Map, which will provide real time streaming of data about the Pandemic, across
regions and states in the country. The platform will source data from public
sources that includes select social channels, websites, blogs, forums and
public data sets to create actionable reporting dashboards and will allow the
government to project insights sourced from the information with public
datasets display on command centre screens. The external citizen facing
dashboard will allow the government to project critical information to the
public for transparency, awareness, and guidance.
In
addition to the above tech solutions, NASSCOM Task Force will continue its work
on the T-COVID app and track align the same with the government’s Aarogya Setu
app.
To fight
the global pandemic and provide innovative technology solution NASSCOM had
earlier developed a special task force focused on creating a single directory
of people and companies working on utilising data and technology for COVID19
management, which will be accessible to anyone who may need it. Spearheaded by
Nivruti Rai, the Task Force consist of more than 30-35 members from companies
including Intel, TCS, Accenture, Wipro, SAP, AWS, Tech Mahindra and others.
Going
forward, NASSCOM Task Force is committed to deliver a similar kind of platform
to Government of Karnataka and many more states in the near future.