Android version of Aarogya Setu App Becomes Open Source
- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has made the Android version of the Aarogya Setu app as an open source on 26 May 2020,.
- Opening the source to the developer community means that the developers and privacy & security experts will now be able to inspect the source code of the app and modify for changes.
- With this, Aarogya Setu becomes the first government product in the world to be made open source, as no other government product anywhere in the world has been open sourced at this scale.
- As per the Government data, 11.5 crore people have downloaded the app so far and 8 lakh people have done their self-assessment.
- The process of supporting the open-source development will be managed by National Informatics Centre (NIC).
- The source code of Aarogya Setu’s Android app has been published on GitHub .
- All developers and researchers can visit the following link to participate in review and collaboration programme: https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android.git
- The source code of the app of iOS and KaiOS would be released in a “few weeks.”
- NIC has also announced a bug bounty programme of Rs 1 lakh to incentivise researchers finding flaws in the app. There will be an additional code improvement bounty of Rs. 1 lakh.
- Details of the bug bounty program will be listed online on the MyGov website
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