HaMagen — Israeli Ministry of Health
iGates co-developed the Israeli Ministry of Health's HaMagen exposure-notification app (v2.0) together with Matrix — a national-scale, privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact-tracing app.
iGates co-developed HaMagen (המגן), the Israeli Ministry of Health's national COVID-19 exposure-notification app. Version 2.0 of the app was developed by two companies — Matrix and iGates — alongside many volunteers from the open-source community 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 developed the app together with Matrix and the open-source community. The project combined national-scale mobile engineering, privacy and information-security work, and emergency-grade timelines — precisely the kind of complex, sensitive, public-interest systems iGates specializes in.
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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.