National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) announced the delivery of a COVID platform to the Government of Telangana.
The platform, developed by NASSCOM’s Task Force, brings together solutions from technology leaders and delivers more than 100 dashboards, across 30+ government and public datasets, with hundreds of thousands of data points.
The platform, with its various technology led models, will assist the state government in sustainable industry recovery and will help them in taking informed decision in managing lockdown and phased release across the state.
“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,” KT Rama Rao, minister of IT of Telangana, said.
Nivruti Rai, country head Intel India and VP Data Center Group, Intel and lead NASSCOM Task Force, said, “Digital transformation is demonstrating its value and its impact on the very ecology of businesses in these tough times.”
Spearheaded by Nivruti Rai, the Task Force consist of more than 30-35 members from companies including Intel, TCS, Accenture, Wipro, SAP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Tech Mahindra and others.
NASSCOM Taskforce has developed a COVID-19 India Vulnerability Map that 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.
NASSCOM Task Force will work on the T-COVID app and track align the same with the government’s Aarogya Setu app.
NASSCOM Task Force aims to deliver a similar kind of platform to Government of Karnataka and many more states.
