SC mulls inhouse app for videoconferencing

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is contemplating the feasibility of developing an inhouse web application, which can be owned and controlled internally, to ensure seamless functioning of virtual courts through videoconferencing.

This follows concerns being flagged over ownership and security issues of web applications after the Supreme Court started weighing plans to conduct more virtual courts during the lockdown, said people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) may be roped in to explore the viability of creating such a web application, sources added. SC currently holds virtual courts using ‘Vidyo’, a web application.

“It has been brought to our notice that the ownership of the said application has changed hands. It is being actively considered whether the Supreme Court should make a web application of its own to avoid any probable difficulties in future,” said a senior official.