Nandan Nilekani: The challenge is we don’t have adult vaccination system… Must build it from scratch for Covid-19

Nandan Nilekani: The challenge is we don’t have adult vaccination system… Must build it from scratch for Covid-19
Nandan Nilekani explains his three-phase Covid -19 vaccination process, says he doesn’t see an advertising global giant like Facebook, Google beginning of India, asserts Indian it’s quite “back-end”, and believes technology will become a part of global geo-politics. The session was moderated by Executive Editor (National Affairs) P Vaidyanathan Iyer.
P VAIDYANATHAN IYER: What are a number of the gaps in our system that require to be plugged before the Covid-19 vaccine arrives?
I can represent what i’m proposing. i feel the vaccination goes to be an enormous mission. We developed the Aadhaar enrolment system to try to to one-and-a-half million enrolments each day , and it took five-and-a-half years for India to succeed in a billion people with an Aadhaar number. Here, we’ve to vaccinate the whole population in two years, which suggests we’ve to succeed in 1.3 billion people in two years, and assuming that it’s a dual dose vaccine, that’s 2.6 billion vaccinations, or 1.3 billion vaccinations a year. That’s quite a 100 million vaccinations a month and quite three million each day . So, this is often a scale challenge that’s unprecedented in our history, and thus , thinking through the infrastructure and architecture of doing that’s vital . Which is why I even have been recommending that we should always design a system which will do 10 million vaccinations each day across the length and breadth of the country, but all unified by a standard digital backbone, in order that every one gets an equivalent experience and therefore the same information is recorded. it’s basically bringing population scale approach that we utilized in Aadhaar to a replacement issue (vaccination) which is, in fact, far more complicated.

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