#Digital Public Infrastructure

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The Gates Foundation continues to bankroll various initiatives around the world aimed at introducing digital ID and payments by the end of this decade.

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India’s Digital Public Infrastructure goes global, says minister

India’s unique Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), which has transformed millions of lives, is now being replicated in several countries, the Centre has informed.

Aadhaar, which is the world’s largest digital identity programme that provides biometric and demographic-based unique digital identity, has generated 138.04 crore IDs to date.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

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Government's Leap Towards Digitising Farmer Details in Budget 2024

In a significant move towards modernizing agriculture, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the implementation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for agriculture in the Union Budget 2024. This initiative aims to transform agricultural practices and enhance farmer support through digital means.

A Vision for Digital Agriculture

The DPI will cover farmer details and land data across the country within the next three years. Sitharaman highlighted the success of the DPI pilot project, noting its positive outcomes and the government’s plans to expand it in collaboration with state governments.

Key Highlights of DPI Implementation:

Digital Crop Survey: A digital crop survey for the ongoing Kharif season will be conducted in 400 districts.

Farmer and Land Registries: The initiative will create comprehensive registries for 6 crore farmers and their lands.

Components of DPI

The DPI for agriculture consists of three main components:

AgriStack: This includes foundational registries such as:

. Farmers’ Registry: A unique ID for farmers linked to land records

. Crops Sown Registry: Based on a digital survey of crops sown

. Geo-Referenced Maps: Detailed maps of villages.

Pilots for these registries have already been launched in districts in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The aim is to enroll 6 crore farmers by the end of this financial year, with additional enrollment targets in the following years.

Krishi-DSS (Decision Support System): This system will provide customized advisory services for crop planning and management based on the data collected.

Soil Profile Maps: These will offer insights into soil conditions to aid in better farming practices.

Impact and Future Goals

Sitharaman’s announcement underscores the transformative potential of DPI in agriculture:

Enhanced Access to Services: Farmers will benefit from easy access to government schemes like MSP-based procurement, crop insurance, and loans.

Customized Advisory: Farmers will receive tailored advice based on their specific conditions.

Overhauling Estimation Systems: The digital crop survey will improve the accuracy of crop area and production estimates.

Additional Budget Announcements

In addition to DPI, the Budget 2024 includes several other initiatives for the agricultural sector:

Kisan Credit Cards: Enabled issuance in five states through the Jan Samarth platform.

Namo Drone Didi Scheme: ₹500 crore allocated to provide drones to 15,000 women’s self-help groups.

National Cooperation Policy: A new policy for the development of the cooperative sector.

Shrimp Farming Support: Financial aid for shrimp breeding, farming, and export through NABARD.

Natural Farming: Support for 1 crore farmers in natural farming practices, including new bio-input centers and crop varieties.

Conclusion

The DPI initiative marks a major step towards modernizing Indian agriculture, aiming to make farming more efficient and data-driven. With substantial investments and support mechanisms, the government is setting the stage for a more informed and technologically advanced agricultural sector, ultimately benefiting millions of farmers across the country.

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India Leverages Digital Public Infrastructure to Change the Face of Governance.

The occasion: an intellectual confluence of industry leaders, technocrats, and bureaucrats to discuss the possibilities of transforming India by ushering in a Digital Public Infrastructure(DPI) Revolution across the three pillars of the economy – Samaaj (civil society), Sarkar (government), and Bazaar (business).

ALSO READ MORE- https://apacnewsnetwork.com/2023/08/india-leverages-digital-public-infrastructure-to-change-the-face-of-governance/

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Digital identity and e-sign technologies have enabled billions of transactions.

From launching a digital identity system used by 1.3 billion people, to evolving from a primarily cash-based society to the country with the highest volume of digital payments in the world, India's digital transformation is a remarkable success story. A set of public sector digital technologies known as the "India Stack," that includes layers for proving identity, handling digital payments, and sharing data, has enabled profound societal impacts. Now street vendors in India can accept instant digital payments even if they don't have WiFi or electricity. Wait times at borders have been cut from days to minutes.

Join CHM to find out from Pramod Varma, former chief architect of the digital identity system Aadhaar and numerous India Stack technologies, how it all works.

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Hear about India's transformative new approach to solving societal problems using digital public infrastructure.

Learn about key elements of the public civic technologies.

Discover lessons for the rest of the world on how civic investments in technology can improve societal welfare.

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Self-Sovereign Identity vs. UNDP's Digital Public Infrastructure

Navigating Identity in the Digital Age Back Story Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Joins UNDP in Pioneering Digital Infrastructure Drive The United Nations Development Program has launched an ambitious initiative, the “50-in-5” campaign, to boost the digital public infrastructure (DPI) across the globe. This strategic move, strongly supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to see…

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India Leverages Digital Public Infrastructure to Change the Face of Governance

The recent endorsement by the G20 Ministers plus the discourse from EkStep Foundation were further feathers in India’s DPI cap 

Rajneesh De, Consulting Editor, APAC News Network

��A single step of a man, a giant leap for mankind.” These were the immortal words of Neil Armstrong after landing on moon (perhaps even more relevant today after the euphoria of Chandrayan 3).

Decades later, another Indian luminary Nandan Nilekani seems to have almost paraphrased these immortal lines. “EkStep for India, a thousand steps for its billions.”

The occasion: 

an intellectual confluence of industry leaders, technocrats, and bureaucrats to discuss the possibilities of transforming India by ushering in a Digital Public Infrastructure(DPI) Revolution across the three pillars of the economy – Samaaj (civil society), Sarkar (government), and Bazaar (business).

The proponents: 

EkStep Foundation started by Nandan, Rohini Nilekani and Shankar Maruwada in 2015.

As per a recent IMF paper, between 2013 and March 2021, the Indian government saved up to 1.1% of GDP expenditure thanks to the advanced DPI. 

The Indian ecosystem has also witnessed a tremendous increase in the use of Digital Infrastructure, with a 200% increase in rural internet subscriptions against 158% in urban India between 2015 and 2021, as per the data from Press Information Bureau (PIB).

The focus areas included PeoplePlus Lifelong Learning, PeoplePlus AI for Societal Change, and PeoplePlus Open Networks. The Lifelong Learning focused on harnessing the power of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPIs) to enrich the learning experiences in FLN, vocational, and skilling sectors. 

The PeoplePlus AI for Societal Change deliberated on how AI can bring about societal changes by providing language as a bridge, turbocharging human capability, amplifying visibility and decision-making, and creating new possibilities and professions. 

The PeoplePlus Networks highlighted the importance of open networks for open opportunities in education & skilling to enable discoverability, accessibility, and inclusivity.

“Digital Public Infrastructure is a significant step forward for Bharat’s commitment to self-sustainability and technology leadership,” emphasized Nandan Nilekani.

India, through India Stack was the first country to develop all three foundational DPIs: digital identity (Aadhar), real-time fast payment (UPI) and a platform to safely share personal data without compromising privacy (Account Aggregator built on the Data Empowerment Protection Architecture or DEPA). Each DPI layer fills a clear need and generates considerable value across sectors.

Incidentally DPI has been collectively adopted by the G20 countries as a set of shared digital systems. This set obviously comes with a number of riders including security,  interoperablity,  on open standards and accessible for all, with governance and community as core components.

The G20 Digital Economy Ministers even arrived at a consensus to shape digital public infrastructure (DPI) of the future, as an accelerator of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with the World Bank collaborated with the Government of India as its knowledge partner on DPI in the Digital Economy Working Group.  

Event the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, reiterated the “unshakable belief of India in innovation, speedy implementation of DPI, modulated by spirit of inclusion – leaving no one behind.” 

The G20 India Presidency also proposed the One Future Alliance’ (OFA) with support from UNDP and its knowledge partners. This alliance envisages a confluence of governments, tprivate sector, academic and research institutions, donor agencies, civil society organizations and other relevant stakeholders in the DPI ecosystem.

While theoretical discourses are fine, it is perhaps time to analyze the benefits of the digital public infrastructure for India. Creating a more equitable digital economy, reducing the wealth gap, empowering digital inclusion and enhancing service delivery obviously stand out. Add to these the reducing transaction costs, improving agricultural practices, improved decision making in governance, quick and effective disaster management and emergency response.

Notwithstanding the optimism, there are still bottlenecks around in more extensive DPI adoption.  The lack of access to infrastructure, digital divide and affordability are the top three challenges. Language and content barriers, physical and cognitive disabilities, privacy and security concerns as well as geographical disparities too pose as impediments.

A stronger policy and regulatory support, proper and timely investment in digital infrastructure, targeted use cases and services should be some of the action plans to mitigate these challenges.  Add to it more sensitivity towards localized content and language diversity.

Box: The G20 DPI Framework comprises three elements:

Technology in the form of interoperable and reusable digital systems and applications (e.g., software codes, protocols, standards) that can be used across different use cases and sectors;

Governance standards that codify human rights and protection of personal data, privacy, and intellectual property, as well as accessible and transparent grievance redressal mechanisms. Governance can also extend to cover institutions and funding;

A community of private sector and civil society actors who collaborate.

Box: Examples of digital infrastructure include:

Internet backbone, broadband.

Mobile telecom and digital communication suites, including applications.

Data centers and networks.

Enterprise portals, platforms, systems, and software.

Cloud services and software.

Operational security, user identity and data encryption.

Also Read More - https://apacnewsnetwork.com/2023/08/india-leverages-digital-public-infrastructure-to-change-the-face-of-governance/

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David Eaves in The Economist. David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government

I took the screenshot from a toot by Open Policy NZ who is Andrew Ecclestone who writes:

"So, basically everything we’re not doing in Aotearoa New Zealand as digital public services are built. On the contrary, the Data and Statistics Act is specifically designed to adopt surveillance capitalism models into government harvesting of data from people’s use of digital public services. h/t @digiphile"

DPI are Digital Public Infrastructure. David Eaves and Jordan Sandman have a great explainer at Medium, which is a bit more accessible than The Economist. What is digital public infrastructure?

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I needed to see some creatures, so yesterday morning we went and did that. The walk helped get my mind going, and I didn't mind getting rained on - the streams are running and the little lake is full. They've installed a lot more bike infrastructure in the park in the last few years, so I'm looking forward to taking more rides broken up by greenery on foot.

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Fund the Affordable Connectivity Program NOW!

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I’m a concerned constituent writing to urge you to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program or ACP. Digital connectivity is a basic necessity in our modern world and the internet must be treated as a public utility. We use the internet to apply for jobs, perform our jobs, receive telehealth medical treatment, and pay bills, and students use it to complete homework assignments. But for millions of people in rural and urban areas, and Tribal communities, the internet is a luxury they cannot afford. Failure by Congress to fund this program will force millions of households already on tight budgets to choose between being able to stay online or potentially losing access to this essential service. If Congress doesn’t act fast, funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program will run out and more than 22 million Americans -- 1 in 6 households -- will lose this vital service. The implications of this will be devastating. In 2019, 18% of Native people living on Tribal land had no internet access; 33% relied on cell phone service for the internet; and 39% had spotty or no connection to the internet at home on their smart phone. The ACP has enrolled 320,000 households on Tribal lands -- important progress. The largest percentage gains in broadband access are in rural areas. Nearly half of military families are enrolled in ACP, as are one in four African American and Latino households. Losing access and training on using computers and the internet will have devastating impacts on all these communities as technology becomes increasingly integral to work, education, health, and our everyday lives. Without moves to address tech inequality, low-income communities and communities of color are heading towards an “unemployment abyss.” The Affordable Connectivity Program has broad bipartisan support because it is working. As your constituent, I am urging you to push for renewed funding for the ACP before it runs out in the coming weeks.

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