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    • Economic Survey 2025–26: UPI and Digital Payments widen the credit accessibility and financial inclusion

      The platform is now embedded across grocery purchases, fuel payments, dining, local mobility, bill payments and a widening range of low-value merchant transactions.

    • Nandan Nilekani-led Finternet use cases to go live in 2026

      “Next year, we will have live examples of Finternet in multiple sectors, in multiple countries, actually delivering value, and the business models and commercial models will emerge," Nilekani said.

    • Fintech firms powering MSMEs via digital public infra, says FM Sitharaman

      Finance Minister during her visit to Indian fintech company Pine Labs lauded fintech firms’ contribution to expanding country's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

    • India building long-term, asset-based strategy to bolster supply chains: Sitharaman

      India is leveraging human capital, technology and digital infrastructure to deepen manufacturing and services-led growth, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

    • India urges WTO to play ‘concrete role’ in bridging global digital divide, pushes DPI as a solution

      India’s delegation also suggested that WTO members consider organising a thematic workshop on DPI under the Work Programme on E-Commerce.

    • Use Artificial Intelligence to improve safety of railway network, says Nandan Nilekani

      Nilekani envisions integrating AI into railway’s modernisation efforts to improve safety, prevent accidents, and ensure a more secure travel for passengers across the extensive network.

    • AI in language, education and farming can be a multiplier for India, says Nandan Nilekani

      Nandan Nilekani said if every Indian could communicate through the help of AI, and if every child could learn better, and farmers can improve their earnings, it would be a good enough use case for artificial intelligence.

    • India in the process of developing global DPI standards: IT secretary S Krishnan

      According to a presentation IT secretary S Krishnan made at the United Nations, the standards can be used for sovereign ID systems and identity chains, cross-border authentication framework, verification protocols, digital credential systems.

    • Budget 2025: Centre announces Bharat Trade Net, a DPI for international trade

      Bharat Trade Net will help in trade documentation and financing solutions in international trade, and the finance minister said that it will be aligned with international practices.

    • AI will solve the issue of language inclusivity in India for DPI, says Nandan Nilekani

      Nilekani said that the estimated value of companies created on top of DPI will be over $100 billion in market cap.

    • Piyush Goyal backs India's DPI to ramp up Africa's infra, healthcare needs

      Goyal called for doubling trade between India and Africa to $200 billion from $100 billion in the next seven years to target a growth rate of 10 percent per year.

    • A ‘Make in India’ approach to craft digitally sound regulations for sustainable growth

      India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), including Aadhaar and UPI, has dramatically reduced the digital divide and spurred growth. Effective regulation embedded in technology can further this success, potentially transforming global digital regulatory approaches

    • MeitY raises alarm over data breaches impacting trust in DPI initiatives

      Distrust around India's DPI arises from privacy and security concerns. Issues include data breaches, unauthorised access, and potential misuse of the biometric and demographic data collected.

    • What is Agristack and how will it work? Decoding the digital push for farm sector in Budget

      The government plans to implement the digital public infrastructure for agriculture over the next three years, Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. Will this be the farm sector's Aadhaar moment?

    • DPI Dominates, AI Awaits: India's 2024 Budget charts digital course

      Budget 2024 demonstrates India's commitment to leveraging its digital advantages. The focus on DPI and support for startups are commendable steps but a more comprehensive strategy for AI will be crucial to realise India's potential

    • FM proposes expansion of DPIs across key sectors in Union Budget 2024

      These DPIs are across credit, e-commerce, law and justice and corporate governance, sectos not covered by large scale programmes as of now

    • Govt expected to announce higher outlay for promoting DPI in union budget

      The government announced a Social Impact Fund(SIF) last year to help countries of the Global South to develop local digital public infrastructure (DPI) with the help of technology transfer from India

    • Digital Financial Inclusion next big challenge, says Economic Survey

      According to the survey, DFI involves arranging cost-effective digital means to reach currently financially excluded and underserved citizens with a range of formal financial services suited to their needs.

    • UPI going global, Project Nexus to accelerate the process, says Economic Survey

      NPCI, which runs UPI, is also helping other countries set up the digital payment infrastructure to build UPI-like real-time payments system

    • India emerging as a fintech nation, third largest fintech economy: Economic Survey

      The multiple digital infrastructure programmes such as Aadhaar, e-KYC and UPI have helped India become a fintech nation

    • India digital public infrastructure is charting the journey towards becoming $1-tn digital economy by 2027-28

      The country has leapfrogged the world to become the leader in connectivity, bypassing the fixed-line era almost entirely, and is unparalleled in the digital payments universe.

    • Integration of AI in DPI, ensuring safeguards, increasing adoption in Global South: What G20 Task Force's report says

      The report suggests that governments, international organisations, and stakeholders should advocate for the adoption of DPI as a critical enabler of digital transformation

    • G20 Task Force pitches for institution to promote digital public infra in Global South

      Task force member and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has said DPI is no longer a choice or a luxury, it is an essential

    • Launch of IndiaAI, changes to IT Act likely to figure high on MeitY's 100-day agenda

      After the new government is in place, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is expected to introduce a host of rules and regulations, including the DPDP rules and amendments to IT Act

    • Digital public infrastructure should cause no harm and foster transparency: Interim UN report

      While Digital Public Infrastructure offers immense potential for growth, it needs to be implemented with safeguards to ensure an inclusive digital society for all, says the new UN report.

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