The backend code of Aarogya Setu has been released in Open Domain by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
- Open Forge is a platform set up by Government of India to promote sharing and reuse of e-governance application source code.
- Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India has rolled out the “Policy On Collaborative Application Development by Opening the Source Code of Government Applications”, which provides a framework for archiving government custom developed source code in repositories and opening these repositories for promoting reuse, sharing and remixing.
- Aarogya Setu App was launched by Government of India on April 2, 2020.
- The App has been downloaded by more than 16.43 Cr users and has greatly augmented the efforts of front line health workers in the fight against COVID19. It has helped identify Bluetooth contacts of COVID positive users and issued alerts for helping people to stay safe.
