Aarogya Setu app is designed and
developed by Gov. Of India to fight against Global pandemic COVID-19. This app
is available in 12 languages on Android and iOS platform. This app has 4.6
rating on Google play store and there are more than 144 million active app
users according to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
GOI Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney.
On Tuesday 26 May 2020, a big update has
come regarding the Aarogya Setu app. The Government said that they are opening
source code of Aarogya Setu app to make app more secure and convenient, privacy
and security experts were demanding for this from long time.
The source code of Aarogya Setu Android
app is available on GitHub- https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android
Long time as from app published, security and privacy experts were asking about data privacy and data security of people, so the government declared the app as Open Source.
Opening the source code of this app
allows security experts and developers to review and detect bugs in app.
According to Amitabh Kant (chief executive of NITI Aayog), No other
government product anywhere in the world has been open sourced except Aarogya
Setu app.
With this government also launched Bug
bounty programme for developers to detect bugs and earn cash prizes as
mentioned below-
1. For detection of app bugs-
Rs.300000/-
2. For Suggestions and improvements in
source code- Rs.100000/-
This bug bounty programme is open from
27 May 2020 to 26 June 2020.
Aarogya Setu app
advised around 900000 people to get quarantine themselves or get tested for
COVID-19 and around 24% of them found positive according to government.
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