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Consider the following : 1. Aarogya Setu 2. CoWIN 3. DigiLocker 4. DIKSHA Which of the above are built on top of open-source digital platforms ?
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 4 (1, 2, 3 and 4) because all four listed applications are integral components of India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and are built using open-source software stacks.
- Aarogya Setu: The government released its source code on GitHub in 2020, making it an open-source contact-tracing app to ensure transparency and security.
- CoWIN: Built as a scalable digital platform for vaccination, the Indian government has offered CoWIN as a "digital public good" to the world, based on open-source principles.
- DigiLocker: This platform utilizes open-source technologies and provides APIs to create a paperless ecosystem for document verification.
- DIKSHA: The Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing is built on Sunbird, which is an open-source digital infrastructure designed for learning and solutions.
Since all these platforms leverage open-source frameworks to promote interoperability, scalability, and transparency, Option 4 is the most comprehensive and accurate choice.
PROVENANCE & STUDY PATTERN
Guest previewThis question tests the 'Philosophy of Architecture' rather than just the utility of the apps. While standard books mention the 'Open Source' policy for Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) generally, they rarely list the tech stack for each specific app. The key was to recognize all four as pillars of 'India Stack' or 'Digital Public Goods', which by definition mandate open standards.
This question can be broken into the following sub-statements. Tap a statement sentence to jump into its detailed analysis.
- Statement 1: Is India's Aarogya Setu app built on top of an open-source digital platform?
- Statement 2: Is India's CoWIN vaccination platform built on top of an open-source digital platform?
- Statement 3: Is India's DigiLocker digital document locker built on top of an open-source digital platform?
- Statement 4: Is India's DIKSHA national digital infrastructure for education built on top of an open-source digital platform?
States a government policy pattern: new digital public infrastructure for agriculture will be built as open source, open standard and interoperable public good.
A student could infer that similar central policies or preferences for open-source/open-standards might apply to other recent government digital public goods (like health apps) and then check whether Aarogya Setu follows that pattern.
Mentions the National Digital Health Blueprint/National Digital Health Mission as the governmental digital health implementation framework.
One could check whether Aarogya Setu was developed under or aligned with this national digital health framework and whether that framework mandates open-source platforms.
Describes a broader government emphasis on building Digital Public Infrastructure (JAM Trinity etc.) as a repeatable model for public digital goods.
A student could use this pattern — that the government builds centralized digital public infrastructure — to investigate if Aarogya Setu was released as part of such infrastructure and whether those infrastructures are open-source.
Gives an example of a government 'portal' (Stand-up India) described as a digital platform built to support public programmes.
Use this example to reason that many government services are implemented as platforms/portals and then check whether the health-sector equivalent (Aarogya Setu) followed the same build-model and its licensing/open-source status.
Describes multiple government-led digital platforms for skilling and workforce mapping (PRIME, ASEEM) illustrating a pattern of creating sectoral digital platforms.
Compare these platform examples to Aarogya Setu to see if the health platform was similarly structured and whether those platforms were open-source or proprietary.
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