They call for leveraging non-personal data, enabling AI-driven innovation, and balancing regulation with flexibility to foster inclusive growth and ensure strategic autonomy in technology policy
IIM Bangalore hosted the IIMB-USC Mini Conference on ‘AI, Data, and Technology Policy: Lessons from India’, on 9th December 2024, where changing socioeconomic and policy implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in India were examined and discussed.
Digital public infrastructures (DPIs) are foundational population-scale technology systems upon which the digital economy is built. DPIs mediate the flow of people (through digital identity systems), money (through real-time fast payment systems) and information (through secure data-sharing architectures). India became the first country to establish these three DPIs, with extraordinary outcomes for national digital transformation. DPIs have improved public service delivery at scale, and facilitated the development of innovative new public and private sector applications and solutions. Evidence of the benefits of DPI is strong, growing, and international:
Srinivasan R, Professor of Strategy and Chairperson – Center for Digital Public Goods Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, BANGALORE 560076. INDIA.
Basu Chandola, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
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