NEW DELHI: India will within days roll out a version of its coronavirus contact-tracing application that can run on mobile carrier Reliance Jio's ...
NEW DELHI: India will within days roll out a version of its coronavirus contact-tracing application that can run on mobile carrier Reliance Jio's cheap phones, as it looks to increase the reach of the system, a senior government official said on Thursday .
Within a week, a version of the app will be rolled out to more than 100 million users of the US$9 JioPhone - a cheap, internet-enabled feature phone that runs on a mobile operating system named KaiOS, a senior government official told Reuters. "We are pushing it ... the testing is going on," said the official who declined to be identified as the plan is not public.India's technology ministry and Reliance Jio did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
While many countries around the world are using similar apps, some such as Australia and Colombia are turning to technology from Apple and Alphabet's Google amid citizens' privacy concerns and glitchy state-backed systems.
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