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1 day ago In a recent blogpost, the Indian Software Product Industry RoundTable (iSpirt) said that the India Stack project can be used to “help connect the trillion-dollar cryptoeconomy to capital-hungry Indian entrepreneurs.” This was followed by another blogpost by tech-investor Balaji Srinivisan who said that the India Stack can support the digital rupee ambitions and enable Indians to use either digital currencies or crypto-currencies interchangbly. Little information has trickled out o...

3 hours ago “There is a market distortion” in the digital payments industry today between incentives for earning revenues and growth, according to Sameer Nigam, chief executive officer, PhonePe. While the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently issued guidelines for its market share caps on the Unified Payments Interface, Nigam believes that without a merchant-discount-rate future investments in the sector could be threatened. Nigam was speaking during discussion organised by...

March 13, 2021 The government has signaled that an all-out ban on crypto-currencies in India is not part of its strategy for regulating the industry, said Vikram Subburaj, chief executive officer of Giottus, a leading crypto-currency exchange. In an interview with MediaNama, Subburaj said that despite the initial panic and sell off among Indian investors after the government the proposed crypto-ban, the market has rebounded with more investors coming onboard. The government announced that it wo...

Government constitutes task force for farmer database under AgriStack Thousands of farmers held a protest at Krishi Upaj Mandi, Sikar in September 2017 The government has constituted a task force for its ‘AgriStack’ project which will deliberate the contours of a Unified Farmers Service Platform (USFP), it said in replies to Parliamentary questions. The question raised by Indian National Congress Member of Parliament Pradyut Bordoloi, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’...

Reimagining The Skilling Ecosystem With 10 to 12 million youth entering the workforce every year, India should not only train and skill them for the domestic economy but for the world. outlookindia.com 2021-02-23T20:25:45+05:30 With 2020 finally behind us, the current situation presents to India a moment to reimagine itself as the skills and knowledge destination of the world and occupy its rightful place in the global world order by leveraging the benefits of the 4th Industrial Revolut...

Datacracy: Indian Prime Ministers data democracy must avoid the flaws of the country’s political system Datacracy: Indian Prime Ministers data democracy must avoid the flaws of the country’s political system Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing NASSCOM’s Technology and Leadership Forum (NTFL) 2021PMO Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country’s “data has been democratised” with India’s new data laws expected to be tabled during the upcoming session of Parli...

View: India’s science diplomacy could take centre stage in 2021 SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 09, 2021, 08:00 AM IST Share Synopsis To start with a safe prediction, India’s remarkable success at managing the pandemic’s impact on health and economy will continue, even as India gains recognition as the world’s pharmacy. iStock Two time-honoured traditions this time of the year are an annual list of (ig)noble events of the past year, and predictions for the new. This article is a trifle late ...

ETILC: How leaders from the tech sector look at strategic technological change SECTIONS ETILC: How leaders from the tech sector look at strategic technological changeBy Nikita Rana, ET CONTRIBUTORS Last Updated: Feb 03, 2021, 04:24 PM IST Share Synopsis ETILC sub-committee can successfully petition and work with the government to expedite permanent policies and regulatory notifications at all levels to enable WFH a universal reality. Agencies The ETILC technology sub-committee met to decide on ...

Tigerfeathers! Share Authors’ preface: We have always been drawn to bold, ambitious ideas that aim to leverage technology to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, we were inexorably sucked in by the gravity of cryptocurrencies and blockchains in 2013, and the exciting potential of the creator economy in 2020. The only other idea to have a similarly profound effect on us was India Stack - the remarkable project that represents the beating heart of this essay. Due to serendipity, or perhaps persi...

The Impact Of Technology On Mobile Money Lending Segments Rahul Sekar, Co-Founder and CTO, Shubh Loans An aspiring entrepreneur, Rahul is endeavouring to build the next generation technology & analytics platform to bring responsible credit to the underserved. India always had relationship with driven banking and lending. To open a savings account in the State Bank of India, one still needs `an introduction from a respectable person / a customer of the branch. The local auto garage only gets loa...