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Digital Public Infrastructure: The Key to 21st Century Innovation and Growth
Thu, April 13th, 2023
Washington, DC
Understanding and designing reliable digital public infrastructure (DPI) is key to ensuring governments meet their development goals, transforming the ways we connect and work, while also helping society weather major global challenges, like the COVID-19 pandemic. But what does dependable DPI look like? And how can policymakers use it to promote innovation in their countries?
India is a current global leader in developing DPI, using it to implement widespread adoption of digital payments, data-sharing infrastructures, and growing its e-commerce sector. These innovations have in turn bolstered domestic businesses and spurred entrepreneurship. If implemented correctly, DPI has the potential to catalyze innovation and unlock market bottlenecks in all regions of the world–but the conversation must be broadened.
Join Carnegie for a discussion on the possibilities of DPI with Infosys co-founder and chairman, Nandan Nilekani, in conversation with Dan Baer.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
Event Speakers
Senior Vice President; Director, Europe Program
Dan Baer is a senior vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of the Europe Program. Under President Obama, he was U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and he also served deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited. He was the founding chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a cabinet minister from 2009 to 2014. Most recently, Nandan has co-founded and is the chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children.