Why Healthcare? Interacting even briefly with the healthcare system reveals the issues that plague the sector in India: a severe shortage of high-quality doctors, nurses, or medical supplies (and a lack of information on where the best are); misdiagnoses or late diagnoses; overcrowding and long waits in public hospitals; overpriced and over-prescribed procedures and in …
Announcement: iSPIRT Foundation & Japan’s IPA to work together on Digital Public Platforms
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), and the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRT) have shared common views that (i) our society will be transformed into a new digital society where due to the rapid and continued development of new digital technologies and digital infrastructure including digital public platforms, real-time and …
Fast-Tracking Inclusion: Digital Infrastructure for Identity, Payments, and Data Empowerment
In 2011, just over 3 out of 10 Indians had bank accounts. This number was, according to the Bank of International Settlements’ analysis, in line with that of other countries with a similar GDP per capita. By 2018, more than 8 out of 10 Indians had bank accounts and around 330 million people had been …
A Great Leap Forward to Transform Fintech: Data Empowerment
India is one of the first nations in the world to kick off Open APIs for consented financial data sharing. And nobody’s heard about it! Dear Kickass Financial Product Managers and (current & future) Fintech Entrepreneurs, Amidst the usual flurry of sensational headlines, you may have missed a quiet announcement a few weeks ago that …
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Bharat Calling In Bay Area
In the first week of October, around Dussehra, a bunch of Indians gathered in the Bay Area. The setting had nothing to do with Dussehra, it had more to do with whether they would be spending their next Dussehra while settled in India or in the Bay Area. iSPIRT conducted two sessions around opportunities emerging …
Indian Software Product Registry – All That Product Companies Need to Know
Earlier this year, National Policy on Software Products was rolled out to create a robust, participatory framework to bring together industry, government and academia on a common platform to make India as a global hub for software products development. This is a much-needed initiative to provide holistic and end-to-end support to the Indian software product …
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The Global Stack: A Manifesto
Elevate digital cooperation to an interministerial level, promoting India’s advancements globally
#1 – Thinking about Design or Design Thinking?
Design thinking has well and truly become the buzzword in the Indian Startup ecosystem today. With the rise of this phrase, we have seen an unprecedented rise in the status of formerly undervalued ‘designers’. Do designers possess some superpowered thought process that allows them to ingest any problem and come up with elegant and practical …
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#7 Healthcare leapfrog – but where is the problem?
When was the last time you skipped a movie for a workout, or chose a salad over a pizza? Or, actually got your annual tests done – annually? Or, visited a doctor without seeking a second opinion? Or, took your pills without constant reminders? These are problems even for someone who can afford the time …
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Some reflections on the fireside chat with Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani
On a cloudy Bangalore evening on August 2nd, the otherwise quiet campus of a medical college in the ‘startup saturated hub of Koramangala’ was bustling with energy. That night the campus was hosting a fireside chat with Vinod Khosla (renowned Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems) and Nandan Nilekani (Co-Founder of Infosys), with Sharad …
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A Day at Startup Bridge – Crafting Strategic Partnerships
For our most recent Startup Bridge Salon on May 9th, we had planned for sixty 1-1 strategic partnership meetings between 11 B2B startups and 35+ US corporates. In the weeks leading up to the event and the week post-event, we clocked 115 meetings. Read more to learn about the event & program, and how you …
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Fireside Chat: Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani in Conversation with Sharad Sharma
Join us for a conversation with Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani. Together with Sharad Sharma, our fireside chat host, they will talk about what it means to be an entrepreneur in India today and how these entrepreneurs can solve the hardest problems of India. Vinod Khosla and Nandan Nilekani are arguably two of the most …
iSPIRT Foundation’s Official Response to Union Budget 2019
The budget has some relief for startups, but not an outsized role in the $5 Trillion plan In her first budget presented today by the newly-appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started her speech with strong words stating that “We do not look down on legitimate profit-making. Gone are the days of policy paralysis and license-quota-control regime”. …
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