We create and curate actionable research on implementing and governing digital public infrastructure (from reports to playbooks) from the larger ecosystem of experts and practitioners, under our Knowledge pillar.
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RBI’s digital rupee must leap over many hurdles for wider adoption
by Nikita Kwatra and Khushi Baldota
"From an end-user perspective, the e-rupee offers no obvious added value.”
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Open-source imperative for India’s public sector
By Sridhar Ganapathy and Dr. Hemant Adarkar
Existing public sector processes are ill-suited to making software open and collaborating with the community. Institutions require dedicated capacity, resources and a mindset shift to meaningfully engage in open source.
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Digital Public Infrastructure: A dubious way to foster competition
By Neha Jain and Sharmadha Srinivasan
Applying a DPI philosophy to every digital sector to combat monopolistic tendencies could place an undue burden on state resources.
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More than two in three Indians use UPI: Survey
By Nikita Kwatra and Lakshay Narang
The results revealed that nearly two-thirds of the respondents used UPI, and the most popular use of UPI was making payments at local shops and merchants.