Sourabh M.JR

“Government Of India recommends use of Aarogya Setu app to fight against COVID19.” / कोविड -19 (COVID-19) वाइरस बीमारी से सतर्क और बचे रहने के लिए डाउनलोड करें ‘ आरोग्यसेतु एप (AAROGYASETU app). भारत सरकार द्वारा जनहित में जारी.  Almost everyone has seen versions of this message for the app created by the IT ministry that is being heavily promoted — either through text messages, WhatsApp forwards and news channels. As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps that can help track the spread of Covid-19. India launches its app created by the IT ministry of India called Aarogya Setu. Prime Minister Narendra Modi boosted it on release by urging every one of the country’s 1.3 billion people to download it, and the result was that within two weeks of launch it became the fastest app ever to reach 50 million downloads and now the app has more than 96 million users of today’s date. “We beat Pokémon Go,” says a smiling Arnab Kumar, who is lea...

I don’t have to say anything we all know, this is the unpredicted time since the first report of covid-19 in Wuhan, China was reported and as time passed it has spread all over the globe. As China grappled with the crisis, the world watched. It seemed distant to most but then a wave of infections began to appear in our city, state and country. Governments, health officials and public scrambled to make sense of situation and drastic changes like lockdown were made. For many the ceasing of everyday life has become a surreal shock. It’s a difficult time for most as confusion and uncertainty prevails. There certainly has been a chaos but also a hope. In this blog we are going to see how people are coming together in using technology to fight this pandemic with the help of Artificial Intelligence to sterilizing robots to rapid development of new technologies being reappropriated in ways we have never seen before. Governments are developing and modifying policies old and new to pr...