Porter prize

Context: The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry received the Porter Prize 2023 recently.

About Porter prize:

• Porter Prize is named after award-winning economist Michael E. Porter.
• The award recognized the Government’s strategy in managing COVID-19, along with the approach, and involvement of various stakeholders, especially the involvement of ASHA workers in the industry to create PPE Kits.
• The award was presented to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at an event organized by Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) and Stanford University.
• The theme of the two-day conference was “The Indian Economy 2023: Innovation, Competitiveness, and Social Progress”.

Source: AIR

Previous Year Questions

Q.1) Consider the following: (2022)

1. Aarogya Setu
2. COWIN
3. DigiLocker
4. DIKSHA

Which of the above are built on top of open-source digital platforms?

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2, 3, and 4 only
3. 1, 3, and 4 only
4. 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q.2) In the context of vaccines manufactured to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic, consider the following statements: (2022)

1. The Serum Institute of India produced a COVID-19 vaccine named Covishield using an mRNA platform.
2. The Sputnik V vaccine is manufactured using a vector-based platform.
3. COVAXIN is an inactivated pathogen-based vaccine.

Which of the statements given above is correct?

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 2 and 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3