HaMagen — Israeli Ministry of Health
iGates took part in developing HaMagen 2.0, the Israeli Ministry of Health's national-scale, privacy-preserving COVID-19 exposure-notification app.
HaMagen 2.0 was developed for the Israeli Ministry of Health; iGates (Information Gates Ltd) took part in the development, alongside open-source community volunteers and information-security and privacy experts.
Overview
The brief
HaMagen was built to help the Ministry of Health break infection chains at national scale while strictly protecting user privacy. Version 2.0 used Bluetooth-based exposure-notification technology — a decentralized, privacy-preserving approach — and the app's code was released publicly as open source.
Platform Capabilities
iGates' role
iGates took part in developing HaMagen 2.0 for the Israeli Ministry of Health, alongside open-source community volunteers. The project combined national-scale mobile engineering, privacy and information-security work, and emergency-grade timelines.
Sources
Why it matters
HaMagen demonstrates iGates' ability to deliver a reliable, secure, privacy-preserving mobile system in collaboration with a government body and under time pressure — at a level of national public trust.