India volunteers to handle world digital public infra repository

New Delhi: India has volunteered to handle the worldwide repository of all digital public infrastructure (DPI) via an open-source platform, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar stated. There is funding curiosity from multilateral organizations, governments, and non-governmental organizations to help the growth and adoption of DPIs, he added.

“The global DPI repository, which would be essentially the platform where all of these DPIs, will be open in open source manner, shared technology and innovation shared and be available to the whole world, will be manned by and managed by us. That is what we’ve volunteered to do,” the minister stated at a briefing on the digital economic system minister’s doc 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 stated that there was a worldwide consensus for the primary time on the rules of DPIs, cybersecurity in digital economic system and digital abilities, inside the G20 digital economic system ministers’ working group. He added that the definition, rules and framework on what ought to comprise  DPIs was additionally agreed upon by member nations.

DPI by India embody the Unified Payments Interface or UPI, Aadhaar identification platform, Cowin platform for healthcare, Digilocker, indigenously constructed 4G and 5G stack are among the many platforms inside the digital India stack.

The minister stated that UPI had develop into a well-liked DPI being adopted by different nations, together with eight with which the federal government has inked MoU agreements. The nations embody 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. So this is kind of what the proposition is,” the minister stated.

Meanwhile, on the feedback from Congress leaders triggered by the invitation despatched to G20 delegates from President Droupadi Murmu as ‘President of Bharat’, the minister stated, “I’ve no drawback with Bharat. Our nation is ‘Bharat’… Congress has an issue with every little thing.” 

“Our country is ‘Bharat’ and there should be no doubts about it. We have to wait and see if it will be a part of the Special Session (of Parliament),” he advised ANI, when requested about hypothesis that the title change of India to Bharat might be taken up through the particular session of Parliament.

(With inputs from ANI)

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Updated: 05 Sep 2023, 03:28 PM IST