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Kamya Chandra, chief strategy officer of Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI), said several DPGs are India-based and the pace at which new DPGs are being developed continues to be very high..
It thrived in challenging contexts such as power outages, connectivity gaps, low technical capacity, literacy in remote areas, etc, Chandra said.. Pramod Varma, former architect of Aadhaar, told ET that the DPI narrative in last years G20 highlighted three core areas: identity, data sharing and payments (UPI and Aadhaar-enabled payment system)...
On the DPI front, India will continue to lead, said Varma, citing the example of Bhashini, an initiative to build a national public digital platform for languages to develop services and products for citizens by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence..
If India manages to democratise these three computing infrastructure, data sets and language models a more vibrant AI innovation ecosystem can be developed, quite like the UPI playground, Varma said, rather than everyone using OpenAI or Googles platforms...
Chandra pointed out that a vibrant open-source ecosystem of projects has emerged building on the learnings of India Stack, which countries, departments and agencies around the world may use to implement similar infrastructure...
