An evening with Nandan Nilekani
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India is breaking new ground globally in the development of digital public infrastructure, combining a digital identity system, real-time digital payments, and a platform to safely share personal data. Besides generating some 2.8 billion monthly real-time mobile payments, the India Stack, as this infrastructure is called, has helped to accelerate digitalisation across other sectors, including commerce, education and healthcare, and has helped connect the world’s most populous country via a digital interface.
The India Stack started with Aadhaar, a biometric identification database, which was launched in 2009 and now covers almost the entire adult population. Besides facilitating welfare payments and other interactions with the state, it has enabled banks to open hundreds of millions of new accounts in the past decade. The driver of that game-changing unique ID initiative was Nandan Nilekani, the co-founder of digital services and tech giant Infosys.
In a very special event in London, organised in partnership with the High Commission of India, Mr Nikekani will sit down with the Financial Times’ Innovation Editor John Thornhill to discuss how the India Stack has transformed India. This exclusive interview will explore the tangible economic benefits, the opportunities the infrastructure offers private sector providers to generate further exponential growth, the even more ambitious initiatives now being planned, and the extent to which India’s digital public infrastructure could serve as a globally replicable model for other developing economies to leapfrog their peers. He will also address some of the privacy and access issues that have been raised and how they can be overcome.
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