Previous Year Question

Aarogya Setu was launched by the Government of India to assess the risk of COVID-19 infection, enable Bluetooth-based contact tracing and provide information related to the pandemic. In May 2020, the Government of India publicly released the source code of its Android application. The iOS and server code were subsequently released as well.

CoWIN is a digital platform developed for COVID-19 vaccination registration, appointments, beneficiary verification and digital vaccination certificates. It was operated under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Its APIs enabled other applications to connect with vaccination services, and an initiative was undertaken to share its technology platform with other countries as a digital public good.

DigiLocker enables citizens to obtain, securely store and share in verified form digital documents issued by government and authorised institutions. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the Digital India programme and uses open-source technologies.

DIKSHA, or Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing, is the national digital platform for school education. It has been developed under NCERT and the Ministry of Education. It is based on the open-source Sunbird platform and enables different States and institutions to provide educational content and services according to their requirements.