Why to install this app ?
Aarogya Setu is an App designed by the Indian Government and its main purpose is to be used in tackling the Spread of the Coronavirus by making contact tracing easy and to Make people aware if they have crossed paths with a Covid19 infected person.
Firstly before you install this app, here are some reasons on why you need to install this :
1. To Help the greater good of Humanity : By installing this you are showing support to the world and in fighting the pandemic that is the Coronavirus. when you install the app you are showing that you are healthy and don’t have the virus or if you are infected it has to be entered in the app. So you helping all the people to come to know that you are infected or had come in contact with people you were infected.
2. Using Technology for a good purpose : Many people might think that by installing this app they are giving away their privacy and location continuously to the Government. But that is no big a price when you have already given away all your personal information to sites like Facebook and are using apps that collect your data always. You might think that you own the smartphone you have bought, but that’s not the case. The software companies own your phone and they can change the software anytime and you cant.
Also people take newer and shinier and expensive smartphones, that is very important to them, but use it see videos and entertainment most of the time. But when it comes time that they can use their smartphone for a greater purpose, they chicken out and make excuses that their privacy is at risk. When in reality they don’t have root control of their phone and are giving away all their information from email, shopping pattern, Messaging and much more without even knowing it.
3. Helping to make contact tracing easier : Its all true that people liked all the clapping for the Doctors and Lighting the candle and it might have helped the people emotionally in these hard times. Its no use when its just superficial support. While installing this app is not. Contact tracing is the most important thing to do when fighting against Coronavirus and it is fastest way to fight against it. Its Eliminates certain steps like manual survey of people by visiting their house , when you are answers all the questions in the app. So this app might be a important step in stopping the virus.
how it works ?
So How does it work ? We don’t know or anybody has that matter. But we know what its purpose is and a basic Idea around its working. Here is the explanation:
1. Firstly the app has built in Survey of a Set of questions that identify the level of risk you are to contract the virus, or if you have already have the virus, or if you are safe and more. This is done by when you install the app you are asked a series of Questions like have you been to Foreign countries or have come in contact with somebody infected etc. This data is stored in the app and used for contact tracing or finding the potential future spreading of the virus.
2. This app has Access to the Location Sensor and Bluetooth of your phone, thus it tracks where you go and you location and firing your Bluetooth. When you come in close contact with other people the phone taps into the app and both phones speak to each other and your app comes to know if the other person is Infected or a healthy person or at what risk level is he to be infected. and You will be made Aware i don’t how but you will get a information that you risk level or potential of getting the virus has increased and you have been exposed to the virus.
3. Also the app keeps your phone as a record so that it will easier to contact people if in emergency case would have to be contacted. This is puts in the front line and in a database of the list of the people using the app. You will be receive any information regarding the Pandemic in the app such as the count of the people infected cured etc. and its coming soon that you can get E pass from the app, instead of using the government website.
What to do ?
But it is in the hands of the people to make this app work, which is impossible otherwise.
Firstly the people who install this app have to enter in their personal details in Honestly and truthfully. It is left to the user to confirm that they have come in contact with a infected or not.
Secondly this is a opt-in basis that the person can install the app or may not decide to install the app. This leaves gaps in the map of the people who are moving around and blank spot in the system. So the more people install this the more Efficiently it will work.
So in Conclusion Using this app might be the turning point that we defeat the virus or the Virus defeats us.
Find the link to install Aarogya Setu app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogyasetu&hl=en_IN