Coimbatore Corporation has sought innovative solutions to tackle vaccination booking
Coimbatore: Coimbatore corporation are facing issues in regulating the crowd who are coming to book vaccination slots directly. Hence there is a need to develop innovative solutions for COVID 19 vaccination drive slot booking for different user persons and all the bookings need to be managed centrally in a single system.
Coimbatore Corporation has asked to develop a solution through which uses onlinebooking, telephone booking, direct walk-in with vernacular support. They have asked for a solution to book slots for vaccination seamlessly without any issues and a single-window system to manage all the vaccination slots.
In a press release it said, "Coimbatore Corporation needs to develop Centralized cloud based web based application for time taken to generate a token and assign it to the particular person ID by manual process takes time. This makes the token generation process time-consuming. This increases the walk-in-crowd stranded time increase in vaccination centers
Each ward needs to have a Percentage of token allotted for Online, Telephonic and in-premises booking only mentioned percentage of token needed to be booked via a certain mode of booking. The token should be generated and mapped to an individual person through any authentication methodology (aadhar, phone number OTP verification etc) .To avoid any manipulation and Token selling in black.
Availability of Slot booking in vernacular languages. Method to identify and eradicate manipulation of date for the second dose. Reduce the data entry work to generate Cowin Certification on the date of vaccination.
Reference link:
apisetu.gov.in/public/marketplace/api/cowin
Event Timeline:
● Event Launch Date: 18-07-2021
● Q & A Session and Awareness concerned Department Person By: -23-07-2021
● Application Submission Last date: 26-07-2021
● Presentation of Selected Startups: 30-07-2021
Nominations will be invited online only, the Application will be invited through 'Self Nomination'. And will be shared in different social media posts.
The Screening and Evaluation Process is a multi-staged process: Following is a list of these processes:
Evaluation of Application Form and relevant data collected
Verification of data submitted by the applicant
● Shortlisting of Application by experts committee consisting of Coimbatore corporation.
● Startups pitching their solution to the government department (Startup With POC will be given preference)
Exper The Experts Committee selects one winner.
Perks For selected Startups:
5000 $ AWS credits.
Prize money: 2,00,000
Mentorship support from top industry leaders.
Procurement of solution (Based on certain conditions)
Application Link:
startuptn.in/events/open-innovation-challenge-covid19-vaccine-slot-man/