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Democratizing Technology: India Stack 3.0 and the Future of Digital Public Infrastructure

Democratizing Technology: India Stack 3.0 and the Future of Digital Public Infrastructure10 jun1 u 14 min

<p>Dr. Pramod Varma, chief architect of Aadhaar, UPI, and the India Stack, and co-founder of Networks for Humanity, joins host Tushar Shetty to discuss the design philosophy and the next stages of India&#39;s Digital Public Infrastructure.</p><p>We discuss the core principles that distinguish the India Stack from platform models like Alipay and PayPal, the Account Aggregator framework&#39;s consent architecture and its relationship to data protection regimes like the GDPR, the extension of DPI logic to business identity and flow-based lending through the Unified Lending Interface, the role of AI as both a driver of demand for DPI foundations and an opportunity for, the case for DPI as a replicable global model for the democratization of technology.</p><p><em>For more in-depth analysis on South Asia, subscribe to the Beyond the Indus podcast on </em><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5MkvpKEnpmDgqCb8wdxUou"><em>Spotify</em></a><em> or</em><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-the-indus/id1681604987"><em> Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, or follow us on </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Thediplomatmagazine"><em>YouTube</em></a> <em>for video episodes.</em></p>