Exporting Apps / Stacks ?

 

 

Better late than Never

 

Context :

Seven countries to sign up for India Stack's digital public goods    /  ET   /  25  Jan  2023

Extract :

As many as seven countries will sign up to use India Stack's digital public goods, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, union minister of state for electronics and information technology, told us.

These agreements will be signed at the World Government Summit that will be held from February 13 to 15 in Dubai where more than 140 countries are expected to participate.

Sources said these countries are mainly interested in DigiLocker, a secure cloud-based platform for storing, sharing and verifying documents. About 14.4 crore Indians have used the platform so far.

Other platforms on offer are foundational identity programmes like ,

Ø  the Modular Open Source Identity Platform ( MOSIP ),

Ø  Instant real time payments system Unified Payments Interface ( UPI ),

Ø  Covid vaccination platform CoWIN ,  and

Ø  Health Stack.

 

Some countries have also expressed interest in,

Ø  Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing ,  and

Ø  National Digital Education Architecture. 

A source told us, "Singapore, France and Dubai have already announced plans to use UPI while other countries are in talks to do so. We have offered UPI to all central banks around the world."

India’s digital initiatives and the country’s progress on building digital public goods have been extraordinary, Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said during his keynote address at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on January 3.

“One of the things that is amazing to see is India’s lead when it comes to digital public goods… There's India and then there is daylight, when it comes to the enlightened way,” he added.

 

My  Take :

 

I had envisaged this in my following e-mail :

Ø  VotesApp ……………………………[ 18 Dec 2012 ]

 

Extract :

 

Here is a suggestion to IIT-Bombay , to develop a voting app , to be called  VotesApp . Highlights of VotesApp : ……………..

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

        What next  ?  Election Commission “ licensing “ this App to other countries ?

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  28  Jan  2023