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Nandan Nilekani-backed people+ai partners with 24 tech organisations

It stands out as one of the select technology-driven consortia dedicated to addressing and facilitating large-scale computing access

Finance still too costly and clubby. Can 'finternet' help in cutting costs?

Tokenisation, or the process of converting traditional securities into their digital copies, might bring a $22 trn market in alternative assets within reach of a liquidity-constrained middle class

AWS, Nilekani's EkStep collaborate for innovation in digital public infra

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday said it has collaborated with Nandan Nilekani's EkStep Foundation to set up a Joint Innovation Centre (JIC) to foster digital solutions for public service delivery. This joint effort will focus on enabling and accelerating the creation of digital public goods (DPGs) and digital public infrastructures (DPIs), the company said in a statement. "The JIC will promote collaboration among...stakeholders to develop DPGs and DPIs for sectors such as education, agriculture, finance, healthcare, and climate change, and help accelerate societal transformation," the statement said. The innovation centre will focus on supporting startups, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators (SIs) to leverage the power of technologies such as cloud computing, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics from AWS; help them imagine and invent new use cases for DPGs and DPIs, incubate them, and enhance existing ones, and offer comprehensive starter kit

ONDC poised to democratise e-com, generate $250-300 bn in GMV: Redseer

Anticipating the future, Redseer expects the next wave of DPI-driven opportunities in retail, insurance, healthcare, and agritech

119 Indians donated Rs 5 cr-plus in FY23, Shiv Nadar gave Rs 5.6 cr a day

Philanthropy report card: Indian billionaires donated 59% more

With digital capital, users have power to bargain: Nandan Nilekani

Almost 100% of Indians have enrolled themselves in the identification system of Aadhaar

Nandan Nilekani pitches ONDC to start-ups to democratise e-commerce

VC firm Antler has collaborated with Nilekani, FIDE and ONDC and launched the country's first ONDC-focused venture platform to help entrepreneurs create businesses and succeed on the open protocol

Infosys placing emphasis on upskilling employees: Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani said that Infosys spares no effort in giving its employees opportunities to upskill and improve

AI-first strategy working for Infosys despite unresolved issues: Nilekani

Artificial Intelligence-first business strategy adopted by Infosys is working well for the company despite unresolved ethical and IPR issues around the technology, Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani said on Wednesday. In his address at Infosys' 42nd Annual General Meeting, Nilekani said the company can be more efficient while nurturing readiness for growth, given its performance in challenging scenarios created by inflation, interest rates, geopolitics, demand volatility and supply chain dislocations. "Several practical, ethical and intellectual property-related issues, when it comes to AI remain unresolved. We also know that the motto of scaling AI in the enterprise is far from simple. And yet, the AI-first strategy we're embracing already working for us," Nilekani said. He said that the board has approved a dividend of Rs 17.5 per share, taking the total to Rs 34 per share. "The company has returned approximately 86 per cent of free cash flow to shareholders over four years startin

Nandan Nilekani donates Rs 315 cr to IIT Bombay, total support at Rs 400 cr

Nilekani joined IIT Bombay in 1973 to pursue a degree in electrical engineering; latest donation marks golden jubilee of his association with the institute

Infy co-founder Nandan Nilekani donates $38.5 mn to alma mater IIT Bombay

Nilekani, who shot to prominence after founding the IT services pioneer Infosys, in 1973 joined what's become known as the country's pre-eminent engineering and technology learning institution

Uncertainty an overriding theme; flexibility to secure future: Nilekani

Unplanned project ramp-downs and delays in decision-making from clients pulled down the Q4 FY23 performance of Infosys

Account Aggregator at heart of creating inclusive growth in India: Nilekani

Touted as the UPI moment for lending, AAs are licensed by the RBI to access data between financial information providers and financial information users

Microsoft-backed group aims to bridge language gap with AI assistant

The Jugalbandi bot, named after a duet where two musicians riff off each other, uses language models from government-backed AI4Bharat and artificial intelligence tech through Microsoft's Azure OpenAI

How Nandan Nilekani seeded path-breaking initiatives for Digital India

He is among those who laid the foundation of India's information technology services industry, and seeded several path-breaking initiatives for Digital India

Adani-Hindenburg case: Supreme Court sets up expert committee for probe

The committee consists of OP Bhat, JP Devdatt, Nandan Nilakeni, KV Kamath, and Somasekharan Sundaresan as the members. Former SC judge AM Sapre will lead the panel

ONDC and UPI together will reorder India's supply chain: Nandan Nilekani

Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2022, he said the supply chain will become far more efficient and will help reach products and services to everyone much more easily

Rohini Nilekani is changing philanthropy

Her book offers a useful maxim for philanthropists to live by

Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum raises $227 million in second fund

Fundamentum plans to fund enterprises that have attained product-market fit and developed momentum in their scale-up journey

Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal's VC firm Fundamentum raises $227 mn

Post the fund's initial investment, Fundamentum's portfolio companies have collectively raised over $1 billion in follow-on rounds