Narendra Modi
COVID-19: PM Narendra Modi addresses CoWin Global Conclave as India offers CoWIN platform as a digital public good to the world
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the CoWin Global Conclave as India offered the CoWIN platform as a digital public good to the world to combat COVID19.
The Prime Minister began with conveying his condolences for all the lives lost to the pandemic, in all the countries.
The Prime Minister remarked that there is no parallel to such a pandemic in hundred years and no nation, however powerful, can solve a challenge like this in isolation.
“The biggest lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that for humanity and the human cause, we have to work together and move ahead together. We have to learn from each other and guide each other about our best practices,” said the Prime Minister.
Underlining India’s Commitment for sharing experiences, expertise and resources with the global community, the Prime Minister also expressed India’s eagerness to learn from global practices.
Emphasizing the importance of technology in the fight against pandemic, Modi said that software is one area in which there are no resource constraints.
That's why India made its Covid tracking and tracing App open source as soon as it was technically feasible, Modi said.
He pointed out that with nearly 200 million users, the 'Aarogya Setu' app is a readily available package for developers.
Having been used in India, the Prime Minister told the global audience, you can be sure that it has been tested in the real world for speed and scale.
Modi stressed that today's Conclave is the first step to introduce this platform to the global audience.
The Prime Minister informed that through CoWin, India has administered 350 million doses of Covid vaccines, including 9 million people in one day, few days ago.
Furthermore, vaccinated people do not need to carry around fragile pieces of paper to prove anything. It is all available in digital format.
The Prime Minister also highlighted the customizability to the software as per the local requirements of the interested countries.
The Prime Minister concluded with the hope that guided by the approach of 'One Earth, One Health', humanity will certainly overcome this pandemic.
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