Jhunjhunwala Ashok
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
Trans Indian Natl Acad Eng. 2020;5(2):157-161. doi: 10.1007/s41403-020-00109-7. Epub 2020 Jun 2.
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.
协同研究、开发和创新使电信和互联网能够以印度13亿人口中大多数人能够承受的价格覆盖他们。如今，这个电信网络被用于大量应用，提供各种各样的服务，如教育、医疗保健、金融普惠和灾害管理。在几乎所有危机情况下，比如由冠状病毒造成的危机，人们发现电信网络可以被利用来向有需要的人提供帮助，帮助行政部门和协调人员更好地管理灾害。智能手机版和功能手机版的“阿罗gya Setu”就是这样的两项举措，它们有可能在这种困难情况下发挥作用。
