Rahul Matthan
Partner, Trilegal

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Rahul Matthan is a partner with Trilegal and heads the technology practice of the firm. He has played an increasingly active role in helping shape technology policy in India. He is the author of Privacy 3.0: Unlocking Our Data-Driven Future and The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance. He speaks regularly on the intersection between technology, society, and the law and writes a weekly column on these issues in the Mint. He is currently the DPI advisor to the Ministry of Finance.

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DaaS Unpacked: Custom Solutions for Smaller Economies

In this episode of Carnegie Insights, join us as Rahul Matthan explores a groundbreaking approach tailored for smaller countries facing challenges in deploying Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI).

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· May 15, 2024
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The Future of Digital Public Infrastructure: A Thesis for Rapid Global Adoption

This working paper presents an alternative approach to DPI deployment: the “DPI as a packaged Solution” (DaaS) model. It is a new way to think about rolling out solutions that incorporate the DPI approach at scale and speed.

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· February 13, 2024
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Governing India's Digital Revolution

Season 11 of Grand Tamasha kicks off with Rahul Matthan joining Milan Vaishnav for an exploration of India's approach to digital public infrastructure governance.

· January 23, 2024
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Exploring India’s Data Protection Law with Rahul Matthan

In this episode of Interpreting India, Rahul Matthan joins Anirudh Burman to discuss the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

· August 17, 2023
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What is the DPI Approach?

The aim of this essay is to clarify how the DPI approach can be institutionalized while providing negotiators, diplomats, and technologists the language that is potentially necessary to define an idea whose time has come.

· May 15, 2023
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How Korea and India Are Creating New Data Policies and Models
September 30, 2022

Join Carnegie as the experts compare the Korea and India’s distinctive approaches to data governance and illustrate how digital policy is being shaped outside of Washington, Brussels, and Beijing.

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Data Governance, Asian Alternatives: How India and Korea Are Creating New Models and Policies

Many observers posit that a stark contest between democracy and autocracy will shape the governance of technology and data. But two Asian democracies, India and Korea, are carving out distinctive paths on data policy, not just following Western or Chinese models.

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Surveillance in the Age of Contact Tracing
April 22, 2020

Faced with the need to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, governments around the world are increasingly turning to surveillance technologies that enable them to track the health and location data of citizens.

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Who Owns Personal Data: Technology and Policy Frameworks
August 16, 2017

Increasing connectivity has raised fundamental questions about data ownership and user privacy that have not been adequately addressed in current legal and policy frameworks.

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