New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Co-Win Global Conclave on Monday, where the country will share the success story of CoWIN with various countries that have shown interest in knowing about it.
The meeting will be held virtually at 3 pm today and will be attended by health and technology experts representing countries around the world including Vietnam, Peru, Mexico, Iraq.
Mr aranendramodi will address #CoWINGlobalConclave Tomorrow July 5th at 3 pm. https://t.co/Y7qZj7njVl
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) 4 July 2021
According to the NHA website, “The objective of the Conclave is to share India’s experience with regard to Universal Immunization to fight COVID-19 through the Co-Win platform.”
Considered as the “technical backbone” of India’s vaccination campaign, CoWin was developed as the central IT system in India for strategy, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination across the country . Through CoWin people can book vaccination slots by registering with their mobile number. However, registration on this site is required to keep track of all vaccinations.
In addition, people can download their vaccination certificates through the Cowin app. The Ministry of External Affairs hopes that the Co-Win certificate will be recognized by other countries as de facto proof of vaccination.
About 50 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Nigeria and Panama, want to use a CoWin-like system for their vaccination campaigns. India has also agreed to share ‘open source software’ for free. Dr RS Sharma, chairman of the Empowered Group for the Covid-19 Vaccine Campaign, said late last month that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked officials to develop an open-source piece of software and make it free to any country interested. instructed to provide. in this.
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