India\'s open-sourced DPIs

India\'s open-sourced DPIs

News: India and Colombia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation to share India\'s opensourced DPIs.
• India Stack Solutions – It is India\'s open-sourced DPI, a democratic and inclusive set of open Application Programming Interface (APIs) that stack upon each other to address various social challenges arising from economic underdevelopment.

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) – It is a set of shared digital utilities powered by interoperable open
standards providing equal access to drive innovation, inclusion, and competition at scale having open, transparent, and participatory governance.
Open source software (OSS) is software with a source code that that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance with its original rights.

Digital public goods (DPGs) – A set of digital assets made freely available allowing anyone to build and operate their own DPIs in a faster, cheaper, and interoperable manner.

India’s DPI framework

Significance – DPI approach can reduce implementation cost thereby increasing society-wide impact of digitalisation.
• It can make India genuinely a leader of the Global South, as is evident from the fact that 8 countries have already signed MoU for the stack.