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!
Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (WANI) that was envisaged by TRAI Consultation papers has become a reality as Government approved it as PM WANI, on 9th December 2020, for exponential proliferation of public Wi-Fi networks. PM WANI will make it possible millions of Wi-Fi hotspots to emerge across the country, giving easy access to internet to …
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The new guidelines on Other Service Provider (OSP) issued by DOT on 5th November is one big step taken by Government of India under leadership of Prime Minister Modi in Ease of Doing business for IT and ITeS sector. You can find the DOT publication here https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020_11_05%20OSP%20CS.pdf iSPIRT Organised a Panel discussion in PolicyHacks to …
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iSPIRT Foundation, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), The CII-Suresh Neotia Center for Innovation, NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore, CIIE at IIM Ahmedabad and Mahindra Leadership University came together to host the first of the Global Leadership Seminar series on 25th September, 2020. Our inaugural speaker was Dr. Alex Osterwalder, the well known author of the Business …
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Over the course of four weeks in July and August 2020, iSPIRT conducted a series of Open House Discussions to introduce and familiarise India’s fintech ecosystem with the new Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). Background OCEN is a new …
Context Those of you who have been following this blog would know that as we speak, India is rolling out a piece of public digital infrastructure known as the National Health Stack (NHS). This project, which is being put into place to futurize the nation’s health technology ecosystem, has exciting and important ramifications for the …
We held an impromptu Open Session on Balloon Volunteering on 20th September 2020. Watch the recorded video and presentation below to learn if iSPIRT volunteering is right for you. This session will cover some of the available volunteer opportunities and tell you how to engage with us. Open House on iSPIRT Balloon Volunteering from ProductNation/iSPIRT …
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Last month, an expert committee chaired by Kris Gopalakrishnan submitted a report on a framework for regulating Non-Personal Data in India. The rest of this blogpost contains iSPIRT’s response to this report. At iSPIRT Foundation, our view on data laws stems from three fundamental beliefs: Merits of a data democracy (that is, the user must …
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On 14th August we hosted the fourth open house session on Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). This week’s discussion focused on the different roles and market opportunities for ecosystem participants across the lending value chain. To recap, OCEN (O-Ken) is a new paradigm for credit that seeks to provide a common language for lenders and …
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On 7th August we hosted the third open house discussion on Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). This week’s session featured a deep dive into the underlying OCEN API flows, covering different entity interactions in-depth and addressing common technical queries. To recap, OCEN (O-Ken) is a new paradigm for credit that seeks to provide a common …
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On 31st July we hosted the second open house discussion on Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). This week’s session covered several potential Loan Service Provider (LSP) products and business cases, and answers to questions that came up following last week’s introductory presentation. To recap, OCEN is a new paradigm for credit that seeks to provide …
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It has been a while since our last blog on this topic. After a break of two weeks, we recently completed the fifth Open House Discussion on the National Health Stack (NHS). In this session, held from 11:30 am-12 pm on 31st July 2020, our volunteers Sharad Sharma, Siddharth Shetty, and Dr Pramod Varma talked …
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The Open house session scheduled for 25th July 2020 has been postponed again. Instead, iSPIRT is hosting today’s topics separately in the coming week and we request you to please sign up again here. New ScheduleOpen House #5 – 11:30 am 31st July – Open Health Service Network (OHSN), a layer of the health stack which …
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“The ‘Landline to Mobile’ leapfrog for MSME credit is here.” On Friday evening we hosted the first open house discussion on the new Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). It is the next chapter of the ‘India Stack’ story, one that has provided the building blocks for public digital infrastructure in our country. The past decade …
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Subsequent to announcement of the Software product policy there was an expectation in Software product industry that Government of India will make sweeping reforms to promote this Industry. In this regard we bring to your attention two below regulations that create hurdle in ease of doing business very specifically for Software product trade. SOFTEX forms …
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India is starved of affordable, formal credit. Only 11 % of the 60 million MSMEs* have access to capital from organised lenders today. This under-penetration has shackled our economic growth and economic woes of our growth drivers, the MSMEs has only worsened in wake of the current pandemic. There is a massive market opportunity to …