In an effort to use technology to its maximum in the fight against covid-19, NASSCOM, the IT industry apex body, on Sunday announced that it has developed an end-to-end covid-19 dashboard for the Government of Telangana.

The dashboard will bring together solutions from multiple technology leaders and deliver more than 100 dashboards, across 30 plus government and public datasets, with hundreds of thousands of data points.

According to the apex body, the dashboard developed by NASSCOM's task force with its various technology-led models, will assist the government in sustainable industry recovery and will help them in making an informed decision in managing lockdown and phased release across the state.

“The IT industry has time and again shown its commitment to helping India and even more so through these exceptional times, by assembling the greatest tech minds in the country to collaborate and develop solutions," Nasscom said in a statement.

Nivruti Rai, country head, Intel India and lead, Nasscom Task Force, said, “We are delighted to provide the first of its kind covid tracking platform and dashboard to the Government of Telangana and will continue our work led by tech, developing solutions to fight this global crisis. We thank the government for their continued support and trusting the Nasscom Task Force for delivering this project.”

In addition to the above solutions, the Nasscom task force will also continue its work on the T-covid app (launched by the Telangana government) and align the same with the government’s Aarogya Setu app as well, Rai said.

Earlier, Nasscom had formed a special task force focused on creating a single directory of people and companies working on utilising data and technology for covid-19 management, which will be accessible to anyone who may need it, added the release. Led by Rai, the task force consists of about 35 members from companies including Intel, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro.

(Source: ET Government)