17/05/2021 - Health

KEY POINTS

·        Technology is serving us during this crisis and it is natural for it to be viewed as a measure for vaccination.

·        The principal response has been through the CoWin portal that has been launched by the Government of India to digitise the vaccination drive.

·        The most obvious criticism of the portal is its mandatory nature for vaccination in the 18-44 age group.

·        CoWin has come under criticism for its propensity to exclude people who are still on the other side of the digital divide as well as for its inherent design issues.

·        In the absence of the internet and without knowledge of how the portal functions, the majority of India’s rural population is being discriminated

·        The issue of data protection and cyber security. They exist in multiple variations and risk exposure of medical healthcare data through third-party providers.

·        Use of Aadhaar-based facial authentication for access to vaccines creates further technical barriers for universalisation of vaccination with a worrying prospect of false negative results.

·        The available technical studies consistently demonstrate high error rates in facial authentication.

·        The technology is not mature enough for deployment and a pandemic is an inappropriate time for experimentation.

·        The technocratic approach in using digital systems has prioritised data collection and efficiency over vaccine equity. 

Plzz review it

Kindly Review

Please review

Please Evaluate, Thanks in advance