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“If I could scrub the entire internet of all explanations of DPIs but leave one alone, this would be it” says Dr Kanwaljit of
@gatesfoundation
in this post
@NandanNilekani
@cvmadhukar
@CentreforDPI
@kamyachandra
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Much needed! This should be done with UPI e-voucher. Any visitor to India can simply buy e-voucher, attach that as the account to UPI, and use anywhere in India at millions of touch points. No need to open any accounts at all! Reimagining travelers’ checks!!!
@dilipasbe
@RBI
Inbound travelers can now use UPI, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
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Had the privilege of presenting India’s Digital Public Infrastructure journey at the
@WorldBank
annual meetings. It was wonderful to hear West African leaders who is pushing their own digital transformation agenda!
#DPI
@India_Stack
@WorldBankAfrica
@wbg_gov
@WBG_DigitalDev
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This will balance itself out. Looking at
#ONDC
as a Swiggy/Uber/Amazon killer is missing the forest for the trees!
#UPI
was never meant to be a VISA/Mastercard killer, it was meant to trigger bigger domino effects in digital payments that makes everyone a winner.
🚨For past several days I have eaten outside food like anything for my story 😅 Ordered Burgers, Chicken wraps from
@ONDC_Official
@Swiggy
@zomato
ndprice differences are shocking .
A Mc chicken burger cost me Rs 109 on ONDC via paytm and 282 on Zomato
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@COdendahl
Indian direct cash transfer system is very advanced, interoperable across all banks, fully digital, low cost, and covers about 650 million+ people. Powered by digital identity, unified national payment switch with open APIs, and a large network of cash-in/out touch points.
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My car's
#NETC
RFID
#Fastag
has it's own
#BHIMUPI
VPA. I just sent money to it!! Instant tag recharge from any UPI App! Still remember thinking and designing the concept of VPA in 2014! We have come far! Amazing!
@NandanNilekani
@dilipasbe
@nikhilkumarks
@snjyjn
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Almost 100 million a day! Architected for billion a day! All using open source components! Proud of
@NPCI_NPCI
team under
@dilipasbe
!
Transform the way you pay with your mobile phone seamlessly using BHIM UPI.
#BHIMUPI
#digitalpayments
@dilipasbe
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I had a wonderful time at
#FOW2020
speaking about India's decade long journey of building public digital infrastructure. Loved the energy, atmosphere, and passion. Thank you
@YourStoryCo
@SharmaShradha
@Sindkash
@AlokSoni
@DiptiDaveNair
! Huge fan!!
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My grandmom who just turned 100, is a poet, musician, & inspirational figure who holds our matriarchal family together. My mom, is the best teacher ever. Period! My wife is wonderfully intelligent person who is my strength. I'm blessed with 2 wonderful girls!
#EveryDayIsWomensDay
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Goosebumps ❤️🇮🇳! We need IPL for athletics to bring funds, fans, games, facilities, and training. Still living in pre 90’s era with government run athletic federation and facilities is just silly! So much talent waiting to be supported and celebrated!
Watched it on loop over and over again. What a champion, Avinash Sable. Hats off for a remarkable race.
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Here’s something I wrote for new year!👇
@NandanNilekani
@rssharma3
@abhish18
@dilipasbe
@Shankar4EkStep
@ONDC_Official
@India_Stack
And the fastastic
@pramodkvarma
writes in a column how ‘2022 ended on a high for India Stack but the digital transformation journey is a marathon and we need to be patient’
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international remittances via UPI: priceless
Adding another feather to the cap! It gives us great pleasure to announce that NPCI International has signed a MoU to facilitate real-time payments in India, in partnership with
@WesternUnion
. Know more:
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When bureaucrats increased TCS from Oct 1st, as a tit-for-tat move, TCS increases bureaucracy!
😜😬
🚨🆕 End of WFH? TCS asks employees to work from office 5 days a week from October 1
@debanganaghosh4
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1.6 Billion transactions last month!
BHIM UPI has been pivotal in pushing the boundaries of digital payment acceptance in India by penetrating the ground level users with safe P2P and P2M fund transfers.
#BHIMUPI
#DigitalPayments
@dilipasbe
@pnbindia
@HDFC_Bank
@TheOfficialSBI
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"There is a quiet
#revolution
brewing. While the world talks AI & Blockchains, there's a
#trilliondollar
opportunity closer to home. Every Indian Entrepreneur needs to watch this before they miss it".
Read on ...
Special blog b…
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Finally! Any digitally signed equivalent docs of the acceptable physical KYC docs will be valid under PMLA! Masterstroke! Time for
@RBI
to allow paperless KYC process.
@ceo_uidai
@SecretaryMEITY
@NandanNilekani
Big win for DigiLocker👇
#DigitalIndia
This shld unleash its usage/growth in financial sector - Banks, NBFCs, Fintech!
> "The Prevention of Money-laundering Rules 2005 amendment notifies electronic documents from DigiLocker acceptable as per its provisions" via
@digilocker_ind
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Monopoly at work! Indians should have an option to use a combination of
@digilocker_ind
,
#eSign
,
#AccountAggregator
, and
@UPI_NPCI
to do visa processing in a paperless, cashless, and most importantly secure way.
Which country will lead?
@JawedAshraf5
@HenriVerdier
@imsiddshetty
Visiting
@VFSGlobal
for a visa must rank in the Top 10 worst experiences for an Indian.
Cash only payments (no support for
#UPI
, why?), insisting on random hard-copy documents, and an overall lack of customer empathy. This is
@VFSGlobal
customer service.
@PMOIndia
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Super proud! Power of open interoperable protocol and market innovation in action. Many powerful features are yet to be activated on
#UPI
. One step at a time!
UPI hits 1 billion transactions in October, plans to go global
The UPI also recently cross 100 million users, making it the fastest adoption of any payments system anywhere in the world
via
@TOIBusiness
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❤️
#UPI
Listen to the sound of money transacted via UPI from October 2016 to March 2022.
🔉 The music is generated from the data - through a process called data sonification.
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Never been attempted in the world! Birth of a decentralized commerce network using open interoperable protocol! Proud of the team that is attempting something this bold in India! Congratulations to all involved in this audacious mission! 👏👏👏
History has been created today on
#ONDC
! At 4:18 am this morning, we recorded the first-ever Multi-domain cascaded round-trip transaction (simulated) as part of the ongoing
#ONDCHackathon
/
#ONDCIntegrationsprint
.
🧵⬇️
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It's a shame
@TeamIndus
couldn't make it. This would have been peanuts for Indian Billionaires and VCs! Being a developing country with centuries of external ruling makes most Indians so cynical that we stopped believing in ourselves and keep looking to west for solutions. Sad :(
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Only in India!
#BHIMUPI
worshipped in tea stall.
@NandanNilekani
@snjyjn
@TheSwamy
@India_Stack
@Product_Nation
@pramodkvarma
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Number of
#UPI
transactions per month crosses 300 million mark! Amazing!
@NandanNilekani
@dilipasbe
@India_Stack
Cashless transactions have now become simpler and convenient thanks to BHIM UPI.
#DigitalIndia
#InstantPayments
#HighOnUPI
@dilipasbe
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I saw this somewhere:
1998: My computers run on the Internet
vs
2017: The Internet runs on my computers
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India’s move towards interoperable open networks powered by solution/app ecosystem helped
#UPI
achieve scale & speed. Similar open networks are now live for commerce (
#ONDC
), mobility (
#KOMN
), and healthcare (
#UHI
).
Listen to big picture and India’s journey 👇
Listen 🔊 to
@LetsCoDevelop
advisor and Chief Architect of Aadhaar
@pramodkvarma
speak at the World Bank on India's move from platform-centric digital services to network-centric ones for inclusive commerce, mobility, healthcare, and more.
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Thank you Bala. It was wonderful to catch up and talk about the journey! Special thanks to
@NandanNilekani
for his mentorship. I am able to contribute ONLY because I am surrounded by brilliant minds. ALWAYS a team work!
@snjyjn
@dilipasbe
@vivek_raghavan
@Shankar4EkStep
@sharads
Insightful discussion with
@pramodkvarma
on what it takes to build scalable systems for Bharat, opportunities areas for start-ups and what's next for the India Stack
@ArkamVc
@rahulchandra77
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Thread! He democratized access to painting for common man. Calendars that hang in every home with Lakshmi and Saraswati are all his creations. Proud to have born in Kilimanoor palace which is
#RajaRaviVarma
's birthplace.
@prajodvarma
@prasannakvarma
@surajfilms
@KrishnaAnujan
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Wow!
#UPI
is on fire! Nearing half a billion txns a month with 10 billion USD in value!
@NandanNilekani
@dilipasbe
Cashless transactions have now become simpler and convenient thanks to BHIM UPI.
#DigitalIndia
#InstantPayments
#HighOnUPI
@dilipasbe
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Another digital revolution in the making!
Unpacking the $80+ billion ONDC opportunity
In a first-of-its-kind industry report, we explore 👇
— How ONDC could create India’s next unicorn wave
— The landscape of who’s building in what & why
— How the network will grow, who will win, and more
Read 👉
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Beckn is purely a set of open API specifications built with the help of community with NO runtime (no platform). Adopters of these APIs will have to build platforms & gateways. Since foundation runs no platform, no transactions or data will flow through us.
@NandanNilekani
Nandan Nilekani along with Pramod Varma and Sujith Nair launch Beckn — a UPI-like open specification for mobility and commerce
@NandanNilekani
@pramodkvarma
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We, at EkStep Foundation, have been building Sunbird as an open source learning platform for the last few years. We will be doing a series of learning sessions and discussions starting from next week. Do join us.
@NandanNilekani
@Shankar4EkStep
EkStep Foundation invites you to a webinar, Discover Sunbird. Register now!
Watch live on YouTube :
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Digital Public Infrastructure (
#DPI
) like
#IndiaStack
is essential to create inclusive development at scale. It allows innovators like
@zerodhaonline
to take products and services to a large user base living in the informal system. Thank you
@Nithin0dha
!
We,
@zerodhaonline
, just got to 1 crore customers.
Looking back, the biggest tipping point was AADHAR for online account opening. Can't thank the Government & SEBI & Exchanges & Depositories enough for making this happen.
A few things we did that had unintended benefits. 1/5
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Beyond procuring GPUs, India should also explore creation of a ‘compute bond’ to create an investment vehicle, pool demand, and negotiate future GPU access.
@tanujb
and I were brainstorming this under
@PeoplePlusAI
initiative of
@EkStep_Org
. We hope to write something up soon!
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This is huge! A peer to peer,
#OpenMobilityNetwork
for ride hailing, now live in Bengaluru!
In India, 2023 will surely be a year of
#DecentralizedTransactionNetworks
across multiple domains such as e-commerce, mobility, health, lending, and jobs/livelihood. Exciting!
📢 ATTN Bengaluru!
To cater to the growing
#UrbanMobility
needs of the citizens in Bengaluru, the Auto Rickshaw Drivers Union (ARDU) has launched a rider & auto driver friendly booking app; Namma Yatri - a first-of-its-kind pilot project running on the
#OpenMobilityNetwork
!
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A 10 min video on Raja Ravi Varma, greatest painter in the history of Indian art. Proud to be a direct descendant!
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Walked into Bangalore airport without showing any id proof through
#Aadhaar
biometric enabled security gate. Felt great!
@NandanNilekani
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3.24 billion
#UPI
transactions in July! 👏👏👏
Switch to UPI enabled apps to make easy, safe and instant payments.
#BHIMUPI
#DigitalPayments
@dilipasbe
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For those who missed this session, here is the recording
Don't miss this! See you at 6:00 PM (IST) today.
Register Now:
@pramodkvarma
@goldscheider
@Shankar4EkStep
@SurendraSingh
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Silly, but, an expected reaction! Focus ought to be on “collaborative problem solving” rather than banning productivity tools!
Bengaluru-based RV University banned ChatGPT & other AI Tools like GitHub Co-Pilot, Black Box etc
Many Public Schools in the US have also restricted the use of ChatGPT
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UPI moment for commerce! Instead of just one or two dominant platforms, such open networks allow many platforms both on supply and consumer side to coexist and interoperate using an
#open_protocol
creating a decentralized network topology.
From platforms to protocols!
#ONDC
will go beyond the current digital commerce model and will allow the buyer and seller to do business irrespective of the platforms they use to be digitally visible.
Watch out to know more!
#AccelerateYourGrowth
#ONDCHackathon
#digital
#commerce
#business
#InclusiveIndia
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Beta version of GST APIs are now available at
@NandanNilekani
@nikhilkumarks
@sharads
@Product_Nation
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Power of virtualization of payment address, love
#UPI
😃
Congratulations to
@_sameernigam
@rahulchari9
and entire
@PhonePe_
team! Amazing tenacity!
#Respect
Proud of UPI team at
@NPCI_NPCI
under leadership of
@dilipasbe
for their tireless efforts during the crisis!
Dear
@PhonePe_
users. We are back with a bang! Would've been impossible to do so in record time without incredible effort & inspirational leadership displayed by
@NPCI_NPCI
and our new UPI partner
@ICICIBank
!
Will never forget because - A friend in need is a friend indeed 🙏🙏🙏
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2 billion! ❤
BHIM UPI has managed to change the face of person-to-person and person-to-merchant money transfers in the past few years while making them safer and more secure.
#BHIMUPI
#UPIChalega
#DigitalPayments
@dilipasbe
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Powered by open source
@BecknProtocol
. Beyond product commerce, India is building open networks for urban mobility, health & wellness, education/skilling & livelihood, and hopefully soon in hospitality and agri sectors.
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This is huge 🎉🥳👏
Milestone reached!🚀Namma Yatri, Bengaluru's first-of-its-kind open mobility autorickshaw booking app has reached one million trips. Cheers to
#urbanmobility
powered by
#opennetworks
!
#becknprotocol
#nammayatri
@juspay
#opendata
#community
#1M
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Indian implementation of vaccination credentials (based on w3c vc spec and compliant with WHO SVC) can be verified offline with no connection to any central servers. Cert module code is open source as well. See . OSS project at
Verification of health credentials should be completely on-device. There is absolutely no need to send data to a centralized govt server for this.
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ONDC is powered by
#OpenSource
@BecknProtocol
Do join the community and leverage to build various decentralized transaction networks. All are welcome!
UPI for e-commerce 🇮🇳🚀
ONDC went live today in Bengaluru.
Let’s understand how the Government’s Most Ambitious E-Com project will benefit millions of Small Businesses in India. 🧵
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We in India must ensure the same and shouldn’t be limited to research alone. Open sourcing all assets built using taxpayer money is a must!
BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on
@ScienceInsider
.
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What a solid comeback for
@NPCI_NPCI
UPI and BHIM!!! They're now giving wallets a run for their money
@Amitabhk87
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🎉 🙌 🥳
I encourage folks in Bengaluru to use and support
@nammayatri
A little milestone in open mobility- Namma Yatri clocked more than 10,000 rides yesterday!
#openmobility
#opennetworks
#juspay
#ARDU
#autodriversbengaluru
#Nammayatri
@BecknProtocol
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Opportunity to enable cross border payment flows, data flows, and commerce is very much possible on the back of India’s work on
#UPI
,
#DEPA
, and
#Beckn
protocols. See tweet below for the recording of the session.
Join us now to hear more from
@pramodkvarma
, Chief Architect of Aadhaar,
#India
's digital identity program that has successfully covered more than 1.2 billion people in a short span of 7 years:
#OneSouthAsia
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Fantastic move!!
Lovely move by
@NPCI_NPCI
enabling non resident Indian accounts with International mobile numbers from below countries to access
#UPI
! Excellent for e-commerce/exports and remittances 🎉
#digitalindia
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Bhashini is out!! Hopefully ULCA will also be launched soon on top for innovators to build language tech into their apps! Thread on Bhashini 👇
@vivek_raghavan
@Sunbird_EkStep
@ai4bharat
PM Narendra Modi Launches Bhashini at Digital India Week 2022.
Here is why this will be a big enabler for pushing Open Source Artificial Intelligence development in India.
Video:
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Exciting journey so far for the
#OpenSource
#becknprotocol
community! Still have ways to go before its true potential is realized. Happy to see India taking the lead to experiment with decentralized interoperable networks. Thank you all the volunteer contributors!
2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ was a year of breakthroughs for Beckn that witnessed adoption beyond
#mobility
&
#commerce
, foraying into sectors like skills & education, alongside nurturing a vibrant community of believers. A timeline of the year that was...
@NandanNilekani
@pramodkvarma
@SujithNairK
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Much needed initiative by
@TRAI
especially when we continue to use paper ID proofs and photocopies. I really do hope
@RBI
@SEBI_India
provide a similar service to know if track PAN card misuse.
Very useful service launched by
@TRAI
/ DOT !
Open the below site and type in your mobile number and you will know the mobile numbers of all the SIM cards purchased with your Aadhaar number as soon as you enter the OTP. You can ban any of them.
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Super!
The Unified Payment Interface( UPI) has been termed as the “Most evolved, sophisticated public digital Payments infrastructure in the world “ by Fidelity’s Annual Global Faster Payment Report. UPI has grown to over 600 million transactions per month with a value of Rs 1 trillion.
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Time to use
#UPI
for inward remittance to dramatically reduce time and cost of transfers, nothing stopping
@RBI
from pushing for this.
@dilipasbe
Recd $83 from someone in USA in my
@HDFC_Bank
account. They refused to credit as they didnt accept the reason code. I asked them to return it back. They returned $23, deducting $60 as charges. I don’t even have the patience to fight but tweeting it to just vent my anger 🤬
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Also met Minister
@cinalawson
and talked about digital infra for G2P and verifiable credentials. Her vision for Togo is truly inspiring!
Togo can leverage
#DPGs
such as
@G2PConnect
,
@Sunbird_EkStep
, and
@BecknProtocol
to build their own
#DPIs
@vyjayantidesai
@NandanNilekani
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Indeed! NPCI and the entire ecosystem surely rose to the challenge! 👏👏👏
And less than 8 years since
@dilipasbe
,
@pramodkvarma
and I brainstormed the idea on a whiteboard.... building on the success of
@NPCI_IMPS
from
@NPCI_NPCI
and the rise of smartphones!
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Yesterday I spent half a day at a crazily crowded office here in Bengaluru just to get a PoA registered. Actual work < 10 min. Middleman (he said all officers in the chain gets a cut too) took 30x of fee to bring it down to about 4 hrs! Everything is wrong about the system!
Revenue department that controls property registration part brings maximum revenue to the government. Yet it's offices are among the worst maintained. As
@sudhirmehtapune
pointed, they point to unease of doing business. More in this report in
@htpune
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I argue that DPI approach/thinking is the only way we are going to navigate the unknown digital future! Listen to my short free flowing conversation👇
@NandanNilekani
@kamyachandra
@Shankar4EkStep
@cvmadhukar
@snjyjn
@SanjayPurohitM
@SujithNairK
@EkStep_Org
@LetsCoDevelop
Watch our latest fireside chat with our Co-Chair
@pramodkvarma
!
Pramod speaks on how countries are exploring
#PopulationScaleSolutions
via the
#DigitalPublicInfrastructure
approach.
Watch it here 👉
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Finally!👏👏👏 WANI is designed to unbundle and unblock last mile connectivity by allowing local entrepreneurs to setup public Wi-Fi points the way India had expanded access to phone via public telephone booths. Much needed!
Cabinet today approved the WANI project recommended by TRAI. It will create millions of inter-operable Wi-Fi Hotspots in the country and democratize the content distribution and broadband access to millions at affordable rates. This will be the UPI of connectivity services.
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Power of abstraction, layered design, and architecture of
#UPI
! Extending underlying mandate structure to enable interoperable e-voucher is simply brilliant! Hope all banks and leading UPI apps enable this soon.
Happy to announce the launch of e-RUPI - an innovative digital payment solution in association with Department of Financial Services (DFS), National Health Authority (NHA), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), and partner banks.
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Thanks
@RaoulGMI
. Btw, some recent developments. Now Aadhaar offers both centralized authentication (for millions who have no device) and decentralized (without any involvement of central system) via smartphone using ID token (ID isn’t revealed to verifier, just a signed token).
India did this very well with Aadhar and India Stack for KYC/ID but its not decentralised yet.
It makes any KYC interaction pretty fast but it needs to go further to digital online ID with privacy.
They need a token system.
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Credit instrument as the store of value in
#UPI
is truly delivering the promise of ‘U’ in UPI ❤️! Many more innovations to come!
We’re pleased to announce that
@HDFC_Bank
customers can now link their Rupay
#creditcard
with the BHIM app and other UPI-enabled apps to enjoy enhanced payment experiences with
#UPI
. Read More:
@RuPay_npci
@upichalega
@NPCI_BHIM
#India
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Wow!
#BHIM
#UPI
did 620 million transactions last month. Billion a month is not too far!
@dilipasbe
@NandanNilekani
@India_Stack
Cashless transactions have now become simpler and convenient thanks to BHIM UPI.
@dilipasbe
#DigitalIndia
#InstantPayments
#HighOnUPI
#NPCI
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Big fan of
@Nithin0dha
and his work! It was wonderful to be on the panel with him and Chanchal speaking about
#DPIs
and its impact on innovation!
Shri Chanchal Sarkar, Economic Advisor, Dept of Economic Affairs moderating a panel with
@pramodkvarma
&
@Nithin0dha
#g20
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With
@ONDC_Official
and
@nammayatri
, the first domino has fallen! Combinatorial effects of India’s digital infrastructure are beyond our imagination!
I am truly optimistic and excited about the opportunity in front of us!! It won’t be easy, but, not attempting is not an option!!
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Incredibly proud moment for
#Sunbird
open source project! Special thanks to each and every community member for their contributions 👃! Thank you
@DPGAlliance
team
@livmarte
@lucyeharris
for this recognition!
#Sunbird
is recognised as a
#digitalpublicgood
and is now in the registry of the
@DPGAlliance
. Open source digital building blocks within Sunbird helps develop faster and cheaper solutions for learning and human development. For more
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Brilliant step by NPCI to bring integrated ODR capability into UPI! 👏👏👏
@dilipasbe
@NandanNilekani
NPCI Media Press Statement: UPI, 15th March 2021. UPI-Help for Digital Payments goes live on BHIM UPI:
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These were all (and more that are yet to unravel)
#UPI
use cases we had in mind when we wrote the protocol in 2014!
Btw, same reason
@BecknProtocol
is exploding into many use cases beyond what people are seeing today!
Power of abstraction when designing protocols! ❤️ it!
This is what makes UPI special. A payment markup language on top of any stored value account.
@pramodkvarma
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@matthewstoller
America needs
#UPI
, an open, interoperable protocol for real-time money transfer across banks and wallets. India’s UPI network grew from nearly nothing in 2016 to 6.2 billion transactions last month!
@dilipasbe
@UPI_NPCI
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Meet
@pramodkvarma
the man who is turning t/ vision of providing identity to billion Indians into a reality!
@UIDAI
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Yes, finally!
@NandanNilekani
@dilipasbe
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“Everyone is a crook, it’s my duty to catch” is the mentality driving all these crazy decisions by Govt officers! Complete nightmare for people and increasing compliance overheads for businesses! Sigh 😔!
Why should people pay in the first place just to claim a refund asks
@TVMohandasPai
. In the interest of ease of doing Biz, and the honest tax payer, 20%TCS needs to be withdrawn. If needed impose a 2% tax. “We are not crooks”
#TCSTax
@CNBCTV18News
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Proud to be part of this! Work at
@eksteporg
on Indic language AI (translation, speech, and ocr), all open sourced via
@Sunbird_EkStep
() has made tremendous progress, thanks to brilliant work of
@vivek_raghavan
and
@ai4bharat
team at IITM.
@Shankar4EkStep
When it comes AI talent, India is emerging as a clear leader n how!!! Yesssss!
As AI becomes mainstream in the
#techade
, our depth of talent will be our biggest competitive advantage.
#ThinkDigitalThinkIndia
@Rajeev_GoI
@SecretaryMEITY
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Another
#AtmaNirbhar
moment.
@vivek_raghavan
doing his magic to expand
#Sunbird
AI! Expect much more in coming months. Data, models, & tools are all open sourced. Check out
@NandanNilekani
@Shankar4EkStep
EkStep Foundation is proud to announce Vakyansh - an open source project under
@Sunbird_EkStep
umbrella to democratise speech recognition in Indic languages led by
@vivek_raghavan
, our Chief AI Evangelist.
@NandanNilekani
@Shankar4EkStep
@pramodkvarma
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This is amazing!
Lessons from the
#IndiaStack
:
#PaymentSystems
should be open and interoperable, and the public sector should play a key role in creating platforms that are open to all & settle in fiat money
#FinancialInclusion
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The idea of a decentralized networks powered by open
protocols is exciting! Allows many new players to innovate and expand the market. It will take couple of years to see this play out like UPI. But time to move from
#PlatformsToNetworks
!
@BecknProtocol
@ONDC_Official
The massive change in e-commerce and logistics through a UPI-like ecosystem for India, ONDC. Explained:
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Check out for a federated architecture blueprint that can unify school ed, higher ed, and skilling. Successful building blocks such as are brought together under NDEAR using open interoperable standards.
@EduMinOfIndia
@GoI_MeitY
@NandanNilekani
@rndx1
@rssharma3
@pramodkvarma
@dilipasbe
@vivekrag
@sharads
@naval
India must build a Edtech stack from quality affordable primary education to educational transcript,attendance and other information
@AshwiniVaishnaw
@Rajeev_GoI
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Electronic registries and verifiable credentials are integral part of any decentralised digital ecosystem. Proud of the community members, especially the youngest contributor who is only in 10th grade!
#OpenSource
rocks!
@NandanNilekani
@Shankar4EkStep
📢1 billion+ covid vaccinations credentials in less than a year through CoWIN!
Powered by Sunbird RC, a
#digitalpublicgood
to build & deploy electronic registries and digitally verifiable credentials at population scale.
Now recognised as a DPG by
@DPGAlliance
!🎉
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Something profound is happening that’s enabling interoperable, open loop transaction environments.
@BecknProtocol
is truly accelerating this!
An insightful report by C4TT &
@wef
-
@NandanNilekani
@SujithNairK
@SatwikMishra077
@ONDC_Official
@EkStep_Org
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Excellent summary👇
We must see
#UPI
as the unified underlying digital rail to move any currency in real-time from any stored value account to another using any type of device and any type of auth. UPI should not be seen as a product. That’s how it was imagined and architected.
How does India 🇮🇳 Pay ₹?
who emerges as the Digital Payments Leader among UPI, credit Cards, debit cards, prepaid wallets and prepaid cards?
A thread 🧵
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Indeed! Proud of
@BecknProtocol
community & for taking the lead along with
@ONDC_Official
!
Goal should be to create a unified, multi-provider, multimodal, sustainable, & open digital infrastructure for urban mobility. This is definitely a great start!
The first step to democratise E-commerce.
#Beckn
#Platform2Protocol
is people’s movement, in this case the auto rickshaw drivers of Bangalore
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Crazy! Indians should start every day thanking our financial regulators as part of our morning routine 😊!
What happened at FTX is straight-forward. FTX lent US$10bn of client funds to their trading arm Alameda, which used it for leveraged crypto speculation. Alameda blew up in crypto meltdown & can't repay. Ppl got whiff of this & tried to pull US$5bn from FTX. FTX didn't have it.
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Paid Uber using
@NPCI_BHIM
and it was super smooth.
@dilipasbe
Super glad to see UPI come live on
@Uber_India
!
@India_Stack
@NandanNilekani
@pramodkvarma
@dilipasbe
@snjyjn
🇮🇳🤘
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This is why
@BecknProtocol
was created to allow open network based discovery and fulfillment between any producer and any consumer!
@ONDC_Official
is bringing the idea to life! Hope
@ruchitgarg
is joining ONDC to create much larger opportunity (B2C and B2B) for every farmer.
4yrs ago today, I took truck load of apples 🍎 to one of the Mandi (market) 3am in the morning to experience what every farmer in India faces when they try to sell their crop.
Traders system which was supposed to be doing ‘fair’ auctions, do widespread cheating. Was heart…
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Congratulations on getting to the finals of Google Lunar X Prize! You will make history soon!!
@TeamIndusLead
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Nice write-up on
#BHIM
#UPI
2.0 by
@sahilkini
. In addition to EMI, Bill payments, SIP, etc. many more use cases such as next gen gift cards and offline cash like usage will get built on top of UPI 2.0!
@dilipasbe
@NandanNilekani
@nikhilkumarks
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Sunbird is an open source, massively scalable set of microservices and reference apps for building your own learning platform. Tune in to learn.
Register at
@NandanNilekani
@Shankar4EkStep
@Sunbird_EkStep
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Proud of
@NPCI_NPCI
team and surely
@dilipasbe
is taking NPCI to new heights from where Hota left off. All aspects of India's digital payment infra are designed, built, owned, operated by NPCI. It's a privilege to be part of the decade long journey.
@NandanNilekani
#Atmanirbhar
How did
@NPCI_NPCI
grow frm ATM switching & cheque clearing to become an
#Aatmanirbhar
digital payment powerhouse? How did it build India-first products like
@NPCI_IMPS
,
@RuPay_npci
&
@UPI_NPCI
? How did the partnership with
@UIDAI
help?
@dilipasbe
@chandrarsrikant
@NandanNilekani
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BHIM it up Scotty!
@NandanNilekani
@dilipasbe
@nikhilkumarks
@TheSwamy
@sharads
@India_Stack
@NPCI_BHIM
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Loved it. "UPI: the world’s most advanced payments system. This is not hyperbole. India just crushed it!"
@India_Stack
@dilipasbe
@snjyjn
Our blog on
@UPI_NPCI
by
@NipunJasuja
@piyushkhandekar
@desai_sasi
@NandanNilekani
- cashless lyr of
@India_Stack
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There is significant value in decentralized ID verification. I am sure
@rssharma3
agrees with it given CoWin implements offline verifiable VCs. If you listen to him you will see that he was questioning the need for regulating offline/decentralized usage of one’s own ID.
.“What is so secret about the Aadhaar number? One fundamental flaw that started developing is — that Aadhaar is a secret artifact, that Aadhaar should be kept in a vault. That number is a random number devoid of any intelligence whatsoever"
@rssharma3
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Full talk at
"We never took banks to villages, but we took banking to villages" - Pramod Varma Chief Architect of Aadhaar and India Stack speaking about
#DigitalInclusion
in India.
#AgileIndia
2021.
@pramodkvarma
#FinancialInclusion
#BiometricIdentity
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Thank you! I was just one among many brilliant folks who made Aadhaar and
@India_Stack
happen.
#Humbled
Congrats to
@pramodkvarma
for making OWI’s 2017 Top Identity Leaders
#identity
#digitalidentity
@UIDAI
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Open mobility is the future, a move from centralized platforms to decentralized interoperable networks! ❤️
@BecknProtocol
and the vibrant
#opensource
community behind it! 🙌
It is exciting to see Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN) powering
#urbanmobility
in Kochi by leveraging the open networks on
#Beckn
.
Learn more! Visit us on March 20 at the Future ICT Forum for Sustainable Cities event at Conrad, Bengaluru. Register @
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Super excited about this!
To create a future where AI benefits everyone, join us at
@PeoplePlusAI
, where we'll bring together a diverse community of doers and dreamers from different backgrounds and industries. Details:
@shankar4ekstep
@Sunbird_EkStep
@pramodkvarma
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Super! Finally PPI to Bank interoperability becoming a reality through
#UPI
. Great job
@RBI
@NPCI_BHIM
Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) – Guidelines for Interoperability
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