The Indian government, today, announced that it will be open sourcing the code for the Android version of Aarogya Setu, the government’s contact tracing app.

The code will be available after midnight tonight on open source code repository Github. “This is a unique thing to be done.

No other govt product anywhere in the world has been open sourced at this scale. Today its scale and size is 115 million. It cuts across phones, IVRS.

Only product available in 12 languages. All covid-19 related apps put together, Aarogya setu is bigger than all of them," Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog said.

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