iSPIRT works to transform India into a hub for new generation software products, by addressing crucial government policy, creating market catalysts and grow the maturity of product entrepreneurs. Welcome to the Official Insights!
If you have not come across ONDC – Open Network for Digital Commerce, its time you know about it and this post is to help better understand what problem it addresses, how it operates, and the value that it brings to consumers, businesses, retailers, existing e-commerce platforms and the state. Problem statement There are a …
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” ~ Mahatma Gandhi This is one of the core values that we cherish at iSPIRT. We started an open process of bringing in Balloon Volunteers by kicking off our First Volunteer Open House session in September 2020. We did this with …
India, a large country with a lot of geographical and economic diversity, faces interesting challenges with last-mile connectivity for internet users. PM-WANI programme provides a powerful technical and policy framework towards the goal of broadband proliferation across the country. iSPIRT Foundation has been involved with the PM-WANI programme right from its inception. Dr Pramod Varma, …
India currently has 90 unicorns – startup companies that are valued at over $1b – and will likely soon have 100 unicorns, becoming the third such country after the USA and China. Since January 2016 when the “Startup India” program was launched, the startup ecosystem of India including infrastructure for startups, be it incubators, mentorship, …
At the Fourth National Startup Advisory Council Meet held on 17.05.2022 under Hon’ble Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, and Textiles Shri Piyush Goyal, the NavIC Grand Challenge (GC) was launched. The GC seeks to mainstream the use of NavIC and establish it as a domestic mapping solution. iSPIRT has …
Union Budget 2022 – Imprints of using Digital public infra with Private innovation iSPIRT Foundation, a technology think-and-do tank, believes that India’s hard problems can be solved only by leveraging public technology for private innovation through open APIs. This “innovation architecture” is now going mainstream. The Union Budget 2022 mentions five efforts that iSPIRT has …
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India has made rapid progress in digitisation of the economy in the last decade becoming a world leader in identity systems, digital payments and tax, and a new data sharing and empowerment framework. However, many deep-rooted issues still exist, such as extending true financial inclusion; formalisation and creating a higher trust economy, that is essential …
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We are at the cusp of a data empowerment revolution in India. The DEPA architecture and its first instantiation, the Account Aggregator (AA) framework are empowering individuals and businesses to share their data at low cost and friction, enabling scenarios such as flow-based lending. The Unified Health Interface (UHI) is expected to drive a similar …
The Stay-in-India checklist is a list of regulatory hurdles that makes it attractive for Indian startups to Domicile in foreign jurisdictions like Singapore and USA.
Eight of India’s major banks (State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, IDFC First Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank, and Federal Bank) have joined the Account Aggregator network. Together, these banks cover nearly 40 percent of India’s banking customers. This move ushers in India’s open banking moment and empowers millions of …
Senior policymakers met to discuss data empowerment approaches that ensure privacy and encourage innovation The digitalization of economies, particularly in critical sectors such as health, mobility, energy, and finance, has seen significant generation of data. The ubiquity of data should lead to greater user-centric innovation, while preserving the trust that users have in an open, …
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iSPIRT Foundation welcomes you to the virtual launch of the industry-wide Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem on September 2, 2021. This event announces the major financial institutions that have gone live, and demonstrates the powerful use cases of AA. It will be a major milestone for the AA framework for consented data access and sharing in the …
This is our response to the Draft Drone Rules 2021 published by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 14 July 2021. Introduction The potential commercial benefits that unmanned aviation can bring to an economy has been well established in several countries. A primary and immediate use-case for drones is in Geospatial data acquisition for various …
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Building on the previous Balloon Volunteering Open House Sessions, we will give a flavour of available volunteering opportunities in the Technology space. In the fourth Session, we have Dr Pramod Varma, Chief Architect of Aadhaar and IndiaStack, giving you an insight into what it takes to volunteer in iSPIRT. He describes our design principles for …
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