The government has been trying to take the QR-based authentication and payment services to the global stage while highlighting digitisation in payments, direct benefit transfer and delivery of welfare within the country.
The dedicated vertical on digital public goods at the G20 summit would help create awareness about the benefits of implementing tech solutions of India Stack, another source said.
India stack comprises a host of open source software application programming interfaces (APIs) of government-backed services such as Aadhaar, UPI, eSign, DigiLocker, etc. The open-source model has created a plethora of computer languages, architecture, APIs, libraries or lexicons, user interfaces, and the apps themselves.
“We keep getting delegations from different countries once every two weeks. The uniqueness of services like Aadhaar is that they run on an open-source architecture, which ensures that it is reliable and much cheaper,” a senior government official said.
“This has created interest among developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America,” he added.
The idea behind using open networks is to establish a level playing field for members of a digital ecosystem. The application developers can focus on building better consumer experiences and products instead of having to worry about infrastructure, permissions, and access, the official explained.
“Countries can adopt different elements of India stack depending on the interest, the level of maturity of the IT systems in that country.”
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said recently that the country’s open-source network for digital public goods and application programming interface was available to other countries that needed it.
This comes at a time when Aadhaar enrolments and UPI transactions are at a record high. More than 1.3 billion Aadhaar cards have been issued as of June 2022 with enrolment of adults nearing 100 per cent. Close to 1,000 government schemes — 650 from state governments and 315 from central government — use Aadhaar authentication services.
As of September 2022, the total monthly UPI transactions were at 7.3 billion worth around Rs 12 trillion.
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