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A day after the central government announced a ban on 59 Chinese applications (apps), IIT Alumni Council, a body of alumni from across all 23 IITs, on Tuesday announced elimination of Chinese systems and software in all its initiatives. The council will also use indigenous technology for a mega lab it is set to launch in Mumbai as part of its effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The MegaLab Mumbai was an initiative of the IIT Alumni Council to design and establish the largest genetic testing laboratory for Covid-19 and other infectious diseases like tuberculosis with an end-to-end capacity to carry out over 10 million tests a month.
As an alternative to Chinese software and apps that facilitate data sharing and cloud storage, the council, in a statement, said: “For data security, privacy and assured data integrity, IIT Alumni Council will facilitate the design of a blockchain protected public cloud infrastructure to handle real-time Covid diagnostic and treatment data. Research and relevant public policy data will also be uploaded on the blockchain protected public cloud for sharing amongst authorised users.”
Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system. The council has about 20,000 alumni across the world, Sharma said.
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