Hosted by the M. S. Chadha Center for Global India
Cosponsored by the Center for Information Technology Policy

Redesigning Governance: The Globalization of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure

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India’s digital stack — a combination of biometric IDs, digital payments, and data exchanges — has already had a transformative effect within the country on commerce, social and economic inclusion and the relationship between citizen and state. As a growing number of countries consider adopting elements of the stack, India’s technological innovation is emerging as an essential part of the nation’s efforts to project soft power in a multipolar world.

This panel discussion will surface the key opportunities and risks posed by India’s stack, as well as investigate how we might need to redesign governance to manage this new infrastructure. The event is part of a larger project on DPIs and will feature a short primer on the stack followed by an interactive discussion featuring an inter-disciplinary set of panelists.

The event will be moderated by Mihir Kshirsagar (clinic lead, CITP, Princeton) and Akash Kapur (senior fellow, The GovLab, NYU).

Speakers:

Mihir Kshirsagar, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Akash Kapur, Senior Fellow, The GovLab (NYU)

Discussants:

Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Associate Professor, Science Technology and International Affairs School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Aleksandra (Sasha) Korolova, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Technology and Society Certificate Program, Information Technology Track, Princeton University

This event is open to the public.