India volunteers to manage global digital public infra repository
digital economy minister's document on Tuesday. "There's a lot of interest in many, many bodies, both multilateral, non-governmental, governmental, that are interested in making sure that continents and countries that have lagged behind the digitization have the ability to implement this in this form or in some other form," he added. Chandrasekhar said that there was a global consensus for the first time on the principles of DPIs, cybersecurity in digital economy and digital skills, within the G20 digital economy ministers' working group.
He added that the definition, principles and framework on what should comprise DPIs was also agreed upon by member countries. DPI by India include the Unified Payments Interface or UPI, Aadhaar identification platform, Cowin platform for healthcare, Digilocker, indigenously built 4G and 5G stack are among the platforms within the digital India stack. The minister said that UPI had become a popular DPI being adopted by other countries, including eight with which the government has inked MoU agreements.
The countries include Surinam, Sierra Leone, Antigua, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Armenia and Saudi Arabia. "What we are offering today is to these countries is the technology in itself. The pieces of the India DPI a whole or part we are offering skilling, and we are also offering access to in partnership with for their own startups for their own young companies access to in partnership with the Indian innovation and developer ecosystem that supports the India DPI.
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