COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system

COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system

Subject: Government policies

Context: IT minister launched Grand Challenge for strengthening the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system.

Concept:

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) along with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced the launching of “CoWIN”.
• Grand challenge aims at strengthening the COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system.
• It will be launched on the MSH (MeitY Startup Hub) portal.
• It calls for participation from talented and innovative startups and emerging technology specialists to augment and scale the CoWIN platform.
• It focuses on 7areas for technology development:

1. 1. Infrastructure
   2. Monitoring
   3. Management
   4. Dynamic learning and information systems
   5. Constraints of human resources-including technical capacities
   6. Vaccine logistics management
   7. Tracking enlisted beneficiaries for any adverse event following immunization on real time basis.

• The challenge will need registration and finally five participants will be provided CoWIN APIs (Application Programming Interface) to prove the efficacy of their solutions for possible integration with the platform with prize of Rs 2 lakh for winners.

About CoWIN platform:

• CoWIN is a national platform for digital ecosystem to be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for COVID Vaccine Distribution System.
• It was launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to help agencies keep a track of Covid-19 vaccination programme and allow Indian citizens to apply for a Covid-19 vaccine shot.
• As part of platform the government developed CoWIN-20 app for real-time monitoring of covid-19 vaccine. It will integrate with real-time data from cold storage facilities with integration from eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network)