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India Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure for All

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
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  • | Pages:30
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Abstract

Amitabh Kant, India Sherpa in the year of India's G20 Presidency, and Nandan Nilekani iconic tech entrepreneur wondered how to share India's model of digital public infrastructure to build social and economic inclusion. 'India Stack', the umbrella term for India's DPI architecture, built public rails on which private innovation had flourished transforming India in less than a decade. India leapfrogged traditional development processes creating financial inclusion, catalysing a start-up ecosystem, democratizing access to the internet and changing India from an offline, cash, informal, low productivity economy to an online, cashless, formal, high productivity economy. Kant and Nilekani wondered what it would take to inspire others to follow India's innovative technology led model for equitable collaborative and democratic growth.

Keywords

Digital Transformation; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Asia; South Asia; India

Citation

Khanna, Tarun, Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "India Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure for All." Harvard Business School Case 724-371, July 2023. (Revised May 2024.)
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