A group of startup entrepreneurs in Bengaluru is developing an app and creating technological solutions to help the government track and monitor people in-home quarantine and contain the spread of Covid-19.
One such solution called ‘Q-app’ or quarantine app, expected to go live this week aims to live-track that in-home quarantine as well as provide colour-coded information to identify areas with a large number of positive cases.
“This is to enable people to self declare their home quarantine and then use that to build a zoning strategy which the government could use,” said Mekin Maheshwari, founder, Udhyam Learning Foundation. There is an urgent need for such solutions as people have been violating home quarantine conditions posing a threat to India’s already strained public healthcare system.
“The value addition that we are bringing on board is the technology that startups are good at,” says Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder Vokal, a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing platform.
Borrowing a leaf out of South Asian countries that have effectively tried such a system, the entrepreneurs have been ideating and testing solutions that help enforce imposed social distancing with the use of technology, while validating Bengaluru’s credentials as India’s innovation capital. The core group, that was formed last Monday, includes Abhiraj Singh Bhal, co-founder of services startup, Urban Company, Vivekananda Hallekere, CEO and co-founder of app-based two-wheeler rental startup, Bounce, entrepreneur and angel investor Alok Mittal and Sanjay Vijaykumar of Startup Village. The group is not only building the “Q-App” but also looking at creating content and dissemination of information in vernacular languages as well as solutions for medical supplies.
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