First annual evidence-led review maps India’s DPI trajectory across mature and emerging sectors; highlights progress, gaps, and priorities for the next phase of evolution
The inaugural edition of the ‘State of DPI in India 2025’ report, an evidence-based assessment of how India’s Digital Public Infrastructure has evolved across foundational and sectoral systems, was jointly released by Protean eGov Technologies Ltd., one of India’s foremost Digital Public Infrastructure institutions, and the Center for Digital Public Goods (CDPG), IIM Bangalore’s knowledge and research hub on DPGs, was released earlier today at IIMB. The report marks the beginning of an annual effort to systematically document and analyse the evolution of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) across key sectors in India.
The annual summit was jointly held by IIMB’s Centre for Digital Public Goods and eGov Foundation
The Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG) at IIMB, in partnership with eGov Foundation, hosted the annual Policy Conclave 2025, bringing together over 100 government officials, city leaders, policy researchers, urban practitioners, technology leaders, and civil society representatives. On the theme ‘Reimagining India's Urban Future Through Digital Innovation and Institutional Reform’, agents of change deliberated the sector-agnostic deployment of digital frameworks for more resilient, inclusive, and market-driven urban ecosystems.
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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Email: basu.chandola[at]orfonline[dot]org