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iSPIRT hosted the second open house session on the National Health Stack (NHS). In this session, our health stack volunteers dived deeper into the Personal Health Record (PHR) system and also covered the concept of the Electronic Doctor Registry. In the first part of the session, our volunteer Siddharth Shetty answered technical questions pertaining to …
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Yesterday afternoon, we hosted our first Open House Session in partnership with Swasth Alliance on the National Health Stack (NHS). For those unfamiliar with this infrastructure, it is helpful to picture the NHS as a multi-layer cake designed to elevate the capacity of the Indian healthcare ecosystem. At the base layer is a set of …
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The National Health Stack is a set of foundational building blocks that will be built as shared digital infrastructure, usable by both public sector and private sector players. Healthcare delivery in India faces multiple challenges today. The doctor-patient ratio in the country is extremely poor, a problem that is exacerbated by the uneven distribution of …
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Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman announced stimulus to help economic revival in wake of COVID-19. Out of these measure a major portion was announced for businesses in MSMEs category. Some of the important measures announced and that may directly benefit MSMEs in Software product eco-system are as given below. Collateral free loan of Rs 3 lakh …
In the interest of transparency, here is our entire exchange with The Ken. Our first email response to The Ken Dear Sanjay and Siddharth, Hope you are safe and doing well. I’m a reporter with The Ken and I’m working on a story looking at the now pulled-back launch of Sahay on May 21 by …
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As you may have heard from us or read about in our publications, iSPIRT takes the long view on problems. We call ourselves 30 year architects for India’s hard problems. The critical insight to a 30-year journey of success is that it requires one to be able to work with and grow the ecosystem, rather …
Many ongoing industry efforts to bring cash flow lending to life for MSMEs are now on hiatus COVID19 strikes cash flow lending too At iSPIRT, with our long-cherished dream of democratising credit in this country, we advocated for and built public infrastructure to enable market players to offer cash flow based lending solutions to small …
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I wanted to write a post on how timing is important for a product-market fit – but with the covid19 times, this has become even more important as the leading indicators change superfast. Usually, such events create massive opportunities for certain products, and if you have that product, you are bound to win. Marc Anderssen …
In 1973, the British economist Ernst Schumacher wrote his manifesto “Small is Beautiful”, and changed the world. Schumacher’s prescription — to use technologies that were less resource-intensive, capable of generating employment, and “appropriate” to local circumstances — appealed to a Western audience that worried about feverish consumption by the ‘boomer’ generation. Silicon Valley soon seized …
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There are no atheists in foxholes, and there appear to be no capitalists in a global pandemic either. The head of Honeywell’s billion-dollar GoDirect Trade platform, which uses a permission-based blockchain to buy and sell aviation parts, declared on March 20 that American corporations had a “walled-garden” approach to data. “They need to start sharing …
An inspiring effort in response to COVID-19 Last Tuesday, for the first time in recorded history, India pulled the emergency brakes on all of the complex interactions that make up the economy and society of 1.3 Billion Indians. We’re going to see a lot more cascading effects of bringing almost all economic activity to a …
One lens I use to evaluate startup opportunities – and have written about in the past – is, are you offering an Aspirin or a Vitamin? My basic premise is that in order to do business with a startup, one has to overcome a lot of inertia – whether you are consuming and more so …
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When constellation research published the best award for enterprise software to Zoho, I was thinking its yet another Silicon Valley startup that is kind of making some mark. But I was really surprised and it was a bit of a shame when I found out that its an Indian company – how could I have …
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The Account Aggregator (AA) construct defined in this RBI circular, this technical specification, and this article is imminently coming to life. Individuals and businesses in India will be able to link their bank and financial accounts with an AA application and begin leveraging their own data in order to avail of cheaper, faster, and more …
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“Words can inspire but only action creates real change.” Presenting the second Union Budget, the Finance Minister asserted that entrepreneurship has always been the strength of India and proposed a number of measures and policy changes to help boost the Indian startups. The Budget was a step in the right direction, but these are just …
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