Co-WIN is a vaccine registration platform that has been operational since January 2021. The platform has created a digital ecosystem of national significance, becoming a trendsetter as it has illustrated that software can be scalable and inexpensive.
“The scalable digital system happens through an open API (application programming interface). It’s the openness combined with a minimalist system that has made it work. A monolithic approach would never have worked here,” said Dr RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government of India). He was speaking to an online audience at the Nasscom Cloud Summit 2021.
The vaccine registration itself is a digital exercise, which documents the registration and details the type of vaccine along with the dose (whether it is the first dose or second one). The digital interface has been conceptualised in an easy, downloadable format, with the Covid vaccine certificate (hard and...