Nandan Nilekani on government panel for e-commerce open network

NEW DELHI: The government on Monday appointed Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani and National Health Authority CEO R S Sharma on the nine-member advisory council for Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC).

Nilekani and Sharma had worked together at the Unique Identification Authority of India, when Aadhaar was taking shape. The department for promotion of industry and internal trade, which had begun work on ONDC, had tasked Quality Council of India with the project. Some of the members of the advisory panel had been appointed last year.

“ONDC aims at promoting open networks developed on open-sourced methodology, using open specifications and open network protocols independent of any specific platform.