India’s taking its digital success stories abroad

New Delhi: India is taking its digital success stories such as Aadhaar, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to other countries, as a means of strengthening its ties through ‘digital diplomacy’.

The effort, a collaboration between the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), involves handholding those countries to recreate some of the technology platforms like the unique identity number and digital payments in developing countries that have similar demographic or socio-economic issues like India.