Digital Public Infrastructure(DPI) and Good(DPG) for Impact

Explore the basics of digital public infrastructure and digital public goods, their public-private-government collaboration, and how open, federated systems with explicit consent unlock GDP and SDG outcomes.

DPI and DPG are not the same; DPI is an open, federated infrastructure built from digital public goods and building blocks, enabling consent-based, secure data exchange.

Learn how public infrastructure and public goods (DPI/DPG) embrace do-no-harm by design, remain interoperable, minimalist, application-agnostic, diverse, and privacy-by-design, with identity, data sharing, consent, and digital payments built as blocks.

Identify the nine indicators and requirements to qualify as digital public goods under the United Nations Digital Public Goods Alliance, aligning with sustainable development goals.

Cloud and edge computing enable massive machine-readable data, AI tools, and digital platforms for public infrastructure. This drives digital public goods, on-demand government services, and data-based governance to benefit citizens.

Explore why digital public infrastructure is needed, and how open, federated systems reduce costs while empowering citizens, government, and private sector through data as a public good.

Examine how foundational and functional digital identities enable public services worldwide, from India's Aadhaar with biometrics and virtual IDs to the EU digital identity wallet and Brazil's multi-level system.

Understand Aadhaar, a biometric-based unique identity system by UIDAI, with the Sidr back end, enabling strong consent, e-KYC, digital onboarding, and low-cost authentication for services.

Explore how Aadhaar authentication and e-KYC work behind the scenes with UIDAI and SIDR, including yes/no responses, OTP or biometric checks, selective data sharing, and strong consent architecture.

Explain the Aadhaar ecosystem's key institutions: ASA, AOA, sub-AOA, and KSA, and how they connect through SIDR to enable secure authentication and KYC with consent.

Explore biometric match concepts, including one-to-one versus one-to-many, in Aadhaar's Sidr system. Learn how KYC and authentication flows work with secure, consent-based architecture.

Explore the Aadhaar authentication and KYC ecosystem, tracing a user flow from biometric and iris scanners through AOA, ASA, and the CIDR server, including consent.

India stack is an api-based public-private framework that enables government, businesses, startups, and developers to advance financial and social inclusion through jam Trinity and four layers: consent, paperless, cashless, presence-less.

Explore the four layers of India stack—consent, cashless, paperless, and presence less—and how the Jam Trinity (Jan-dhan, Aadhaar, mobile) enables seamless payments, KYC, and digital services.

India Stack helps Rajni, a street vendor persona, access a small intraday loan via data sharing, consent architecture, and a credit marketplace with paperless contracts.

Rajni uses India Stack to secure an intra day loan from a lender through Aadhaar e-kyc, Digilocker data, and consent management, with O'cain and UPI enabling offers, disbursal, and repayment.

Describe how digital public infrastructure in payments enables interoperability, lowers cost per transaction, and drives innovation, using UPI, Paynow, virtual payment addresses, and global examples like Oman, Singapore, and Brazil.

Moja loop is an open source reference model for interoperable payments within a digital public infrastructure, linking payer and payee FSPs through adapters and common APIs.

Explore how upi enables interoperable bank-to-bank payments via virtual payment addresses and name verification. Learn about two-factor authentication, pull and push payments, and qr codes.

Identify the key UPI participants, including payer and payee service providers, remitter and beneficiary banks, and the NPCI switch, and see how they enable peer-to-peer and merchant payments.

Explore global digital public infrastructure data exchange, including Digilocker, API Setu, Umang, and SingPass, and learn how interoperable platforms enable secure citizen services and government data sharing.

examine global digital public infrastructure for data exchange, highlighting examples like io app, mao pass, MyGov, Myinfo, and X-Road, and emphasize secure, consent-based data sharing through digital identities and APIs.

Explore Japan's digital public infrastructure, including GIF and trusted web, and understand cross-border data sharing, front-end to back-end architecture, and consensus-driven single source of truth.

France showcases an open, api-driven digital public infrastructure, leveraging api.gouv.fr, base adresse nationale, and data.gouv.fr to provide ml-ready, geo-tagged public data for developers and public good.

Estonia's digital public infrastructure enables nationwide digital identity for remote authentication and access to e-services, including e-voting, e-health, e-prescriptions, and e-governance, with features like e-residency and online tax.

Understand how the account aggregator flow coordinates consent and secure data sharing among banks, insurers, securities, and pensions, with an NBFC mediator and encrypted consent log.

Explore India's Umang architecture, a modular digital public infrastructure unifying citizen services through gateways, API management, Digilocker, Aadhaar, CDN, and orchestration.