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Apr 22, 2023

Talking Digital Public Infrastructure Podcast: Introductory Note

This is an introductory note for a podcast series focused on Digital Public Infrastructures. All links to the podcast episodes are listed below and will be embedded in each of the blog posts in this series.

Sarthak Satapathy

Apr 22, 2023

DPI Podcast: Demystifying Digital Public Infrastructures

In this first episode, we understand the concept of digital public infrastructures, its role in the digital economy, and how is it different from the traditional digital development approaches. Our guest for the episode is David…

Sarthak Satapathy

Apr 22, 2023

DPI Podcast: Market and DPG Players in the DPI Ecosystem

In this episode, Venky and I unpack the role of markets and DPGs in the digital public infrastructure ecosystem, we talk about these market players, their challenges, and how can they be governed.

Sarthak Satapathy

Nov 6, 2022

Chinks in Fortress Data

(Originally co-written and published in the Telegraph, India)

South Asian countries have been innovating and pioneering digital ID programmes for over a decade. While India and Pakistan have been torchbearers for the same in the region and have issued digital…