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Follow us on FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Today’s informational politics: People are becoming more transparent to the state instead of the state to the people May 24, 2021, 8:36 PM IST The writer is a member of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) A couple of weeks back I received a message with information about a Covid helpdesk being run by some young women in a college, but soon I was alerted not to forward it since the women had been inundated with calls and were struggling to keep up. On the other side, care-givers of patients desperately and chaoti...

By Swastik Sharma NITI Aayog recently released the draft of Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (“DEPA”) for public comments. DEPA is the last layer of India Stack and the next significant digital public utility after UPI, as it scales and expands the financial sector NBFC-AA (Account Aggregator) model to other sectors. Apps built upon DEPA can offer services on the basis of one’s personal data like tax returns, expenditure behaviour or invoices raised through Amazon. Although the draft DEPA has few creases to iron, let’s first discuss what makes it so special that it is bein...