With the DPI export, India gets to extend its soft power and create new opportunities for companies. But what if this technology, already marred with safety and privacy issues, falls into the wrong hands?
Last week, Google announced that it is bringing India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) to the world by launching a deployable “DPI in a box” on Google Cloud.
Essentially, this will help other countries develop their own versions of Aadhaar and other Indian DPI technologies. Indian DPI has already found its way to some countries. For instance, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka have adopted the united payments interface.
The initiative by the tech giant seems to be a result of the US-India Global Digital Development Partnership announced after prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this year. …
Sethu writes on all things technology at The Morning Context. He previously worked as a senior sub-editor at Indian Express.
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