Role of Telecom Network to Manage COVID-19 in India: Aarogya Setu

Abstract

Concerted Research, Development and Innovation have enabled telecom and Internet reach most of the 1.3 billion people in India at a price-point that they can afford. This telecom network is being used for a whole lot of application today providing a large variety of services like education, health care, financial inclusion and disaster management. In almost all crisis situation like that created by coronavirus, one finds that telecom network can be leveraged to offer help to the needy, administration and coordinators to better manage the disaster. Aarogya Setu for smartphones and Aarogya Setu for feature phones are two such efforts, which are potentially going to help in this difficult situation.