Global Digital Public Infrastructure
WHY IN NEWS ?
Prime Minister announced the launch of two India-led initiatives: the Global Digital Public Infrastructure Repository and a Social Impact Fund.
Main body –
- The G20 Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG), chaired by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), has led the advancement of the global DPI Agenda. The DEWG’s rigorous negotiation efforts have culminated in the first-ever multilateral consensus on DPI.
- The Digital Economy Ministers’ Meeting (DEMM) unanimously endorsed three DPI deliverables, which included: a Framework for building DPI, mobilizing finances for DPI development in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), and the creation of a Global DPI Repository (GDPIR) for the exchange of information and best practices.
- This landmark consensus was also affirmed as a part of the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration (NDLD).
Aim
It is aimed at addressing the existing knowledge gap around the right practices to design, build, and deploy population scale DPI.
Important Feature
Each participant, based on whether their DPI is built on open platforms, APIs, standards, and protocols, can choose to display any information at their discretion, which can help others to develop their DPI.
What purpose does the repository serve?
- The IT Ministry-developed repository serves as a “resource hub” for global DPI projects by various governments.
- Current examples on the website include India’s Aadhaar and DigiLocker, Singapore’s National Digital Identity system, the European Union’s Digital Identity Wallet, and more.
- Its primary aim is to bridge the knowledge gap in the choices and methodologies required for the design, construction, deployment, and governance of DPIs.
What is India Stack?
India Stack is a set of APIs (Application programming interface) that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilize a unique digital Infrastructure to solve India’s hard problems towards presence-less, paperless, and cashless service delivery.
It aims to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale.
The vision of India Stack is not limited to one country; it can be applied to any nation, be it a developed one or an emerging one.
Source – The Hindu
