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 …
Open House Session #1 on iSPIRT’s Balloon Volunteering
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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iSPIRT Foundation’s Official Response to Non-Personal Data Report
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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iSPIRT Fourth Open House on OCEN: Market Opportunities
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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iSPIRT Third Open House on OCEN: API Specifications & Next Steps
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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iSPIRT Second Open House on OCEN: Varied LSP Possibilities
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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NHS Open House on Open Health Services Network
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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NHS Open House on OHSN & PHR Business Model Postponed
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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iSPIRT First Open House on OCEN: Summary and Next Steps
“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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Need to Remove SOFTEX form and TDS on Software products immediately
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’s New Credit Rails
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 …
Sahamati Organizes Historic Account Aggregator Hackathon
The DigiSahamati Foundation, the non-profit Self Regulatory Organization responsible for evangelizing the nascent Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem, is organizing a hackathon featuring lots of masterclasses for the public to attend and learn from. As a refresher, an AA is a new kind of legal entity defined in this RBI circular. The basic idea is that …
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Technical Standards of the Personal Health Records (PHR) component of the National Health Stack
We have an exciting announcement for you all today! We are publishing a draft of the technical standards of the Personal Health Records (PHR) component of the National Health Stack (NHS)! As a refresher, these standards govern the consented sharing of health information between Health Information Providers (HIPs) – like hospitals, pathology labs, and clinics …
Bending India’s COVID-19 Curve Through Science & Data-Led Models
Powered by data-led scientific rigor, the India COVID-19 SEIR Model delivers early infection trends for every district in India. The model is geared to help Indians from all walks of life plan life and work decisions around their region’s projected trends over the next 15-30 days. Hospitals can use the model to plan for a …
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Covid19 Crisis: Sharpen the Saw with Marginal Costing
When reality changes, it’s important for the firms to acknowledge and adjust to the new situation. This is the time to remember the mantra ‘Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality’. The Covid-19 crisis is much written about, debated and analyzed. If there is one thing everyone can agree about on the future, …
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