India’s digital public infrastructure to reach 50 countries in next 5 years: Nandan Nilekani

A global coalition of multilateral organisations including the World Bank and the IMF, led by the Indian government and external affairs minister S Jaishankar, will take India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) model to 50 countries in the next five years, Nandan Nilekani, chairman of Infosys and the founder chairman of the Aadhaar project, said in the national capital on Sunday.

“There is now a major move afoot to take this model to 50 countries in five years,” Nilekani said, speaking at the B20 Summit in the national capital. “So over the next few years, you will see the proliferation of how this new way of thinking about digital infrastructure at population scale, using an open architecture, is going to be more and more ubiquitous and prevalent around the world,” Nilekani said.