Digital Makes Us Equal
Over the past fifteen years, India has successfully built and scaled a digital-first nation to enable its diverse citizens to be formally included in the economy. Now, we want to share our learnings with the world.
At the First United Nations Conference on Citizen Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure, Transformative Technology for Citizens, on April 25 & 26, 2024 India invites all nations to understand its Citizen Stack approach and success in building and scaling its Digital Public Infrastructure.
The two-day event at the United Nations HQ in New York is a continuum of India's G20 Presidency in 2023 and will showcase notable instances from Philippines & Ethiopia who, despite having traversed a differentiated path have essentially arrived at the same national outcome. We encourage other countries to assimilate our approach, understand other possibilities and blueprint their own national Digital Public Infrastructure.
India Stack (India's Citizen Stack) is a 'sum-of-parts' technology that despite being privately provisioned is publicly owned infrastructure and delivers a gamut of citizen services encompassing digital identity, payments, open networks and data that enable other innovations using this as a national digital backbone.
It was built to empower our 1.4 billion citizens and leapfrog our country's journey into a product-driven, innovation-led, and high-growth global state.
Data
The 'data' layer of India Stack aims to restore the ownership and control over user data to its rightful owners.
Open Ecosystems
At a core level, the driving vision of India Stack is of open networks that establish a level playing field for members of a digital ecosystem.
Payments and Banking
Financial inclusion through a free real-time mobile payments system and a no minimum balance bank account for every Indian to connect with the digital economy.
Identity
The bedrock of India Stack is a set of digital identity products that can be used to quickly authenticate a user's identity.
Beyond words,
our impact in numbers.
Data
Open Ecosystems
Payments and Banking
Identity
6,286M
Digital Locker Documents
Digital Locker Documents
Know More519M
New Bank Accounts
Opened
New Bank Accounts
Opened
27,542M
Directly Transferred to
Novel Accounts (USD)
Directly Transferred to
Novel Accounts (USD)
51M
Secure Financial
Datapoints Shared
Secure Financial
Datapoints Shared
349M
Health Records Linked
Health Records Linked
Know More1,393M
Digital Proofs of
Identity Issued
Digital Proofs of
Identity Issued
29M
Trips on Decentralised
Ride Hailing
Trips on Decentralised
Ride Hailing
12,203M
Volume of Mobile
Bank Transfers
Volume of Mobile
Bank Transfers
249M
Digital Document
Locker Users
Digital Document
Locker Users
567M
Health IDs
Generated
Health IDs
Generated
427,334M
Direct Benefit Transfer
(USD)
Direct Benefit Transfer
(USD)
331M
Monthly Volume of
RFID Toll Triggers
Monthly Volume of
RFID Toll Triggers
230,135M
Monthly Value of
Smartphone Bank
Transfers (USD)
Monthly Value of
Smartphone Bank
Transfers (USD)
3M
Digital ID
Travellers
Digital ID
Travellers
83M
Vehicles
with RFID
Tags
Vehicles
with RFID
Tags
109,049M
Authentications of
Proof of Identity
Authentications of
Proof of Identity
695M
Monthly Toll Collected
from RFID Car Tags
Monthly Toll Collected
from RFID Car Tags
47M
Financial Data
Exchange Users
Financial Data
Exchange Users
12,203M
Volume of Mobile
Bank Transfers
Volume of Mobile
Bank Transfers
3M
Digital ID
Travellers
Digital ID
Travellers
83M
Vehicles with
RFID Tags
Vehicles with
RFID Tags
109,049M
Authentications of
Proof of Identity
Authentications of
Proof of Identity
695M
Monthly Toll Collected
from RFID Car Tags
Monthly Toll Collected
from RFID Car Tags
47M
Financial Data
Exchange Users
Financial Data
Exchange Users
29M
Trips on
Decentralised
Ride Hailing
Trips on
Decentralised
Ride Hailing
1,393M
Digital Proof
of Identity
Issued
Digital Proof
of Identity
Issued
230,135M
Monthly Value of
Smartphone Bank
Transfers (USD)
Monthly Value of
Smartphone Bank
Transfers (USD)
567M
Health IDs
Generated
Health IDs
Generated
249M
Digital
Documents
Locker
Users
Digital
Documents
Locker
Users
427,334M
Direct Benefits Transfer
(USD)
Direct Benefits Transfer
(USD)
331M
Monthly Volume of
RFID Toll Triggers
Monthly Volume of
RFID Toll Triggers
6,286M
Total Digital
Locker
Documents
Total Digital
Locker
Documents
519M
New bank accounts
opened
New bank accounts
opened
27,542M
Directly Transferred to
Novel Accounts (USD)
Directly Transferred to
Novel Accounts (USD)
51M
Secure Financial
Datapoints shared
Secure Financial
Datapoints shared
349M
Health
Records
Linked
Health
Records
Linked
The People. The Impact. The Experience.
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Schedule - April, 2024
Thursday, 25th
10:00 am
-
01:00 pm
Main Session
CR8, United Nations HQ, New York
10:00 am
-
10:05 am
Welcome by Permanent Mission of India
by Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj
10:05 am
-
10:10 am
Video Message
by Mr. Ashwini Vaishnaw
10:10 am
-
10:15 am
UN General Assembly President's Remarks
by H.E. Mr. Dennis Francis
10:15 am
-
10:20 am
UNDP Administrator's Remarks
by Achim Steiner
10:20 am
-
10:25 am
Video Message
by Amandeep Gill Singh
10:25 am
-
10:40 am
Keynote Address: Advancing Digital Frontier using Citizen Stack
by Amitabh Kant
10:40 am
-
10:45 am
The Future and Prescience of India’s DPIs
by Srivatsa Krishna
10:45 am
-
11:15 am
Citizen Stack = Digital Public Infrastructure
by Sharad Sharma
11:15 am
-
11:30 am
Tea Break at Vienna Café
11:30 am
-
11:40 am
World Bank on DPI
by Parameswaran Iyer
11:40 am
-
12:00 pm
Citizen Stack: Data with Trust
by Henri Verdier
by Moderator: Madhumitha Prema Ramanathan
12:00 pm
-
12:05 pm
Video Message - Establishing Standards in Data for Building Trustworthy AI
by Wendy Hall
12:05 pm
-
12:30 pm
Citizen Stack for the World: Ethiopia and Philippines
by Dawit Mulugeta Dame
by Fred Sotelo Sollesta
by Moderator: Nagarajan Santhanam
12:30 pm
-
01:00 pm
Building in India for the World: Innovation & Startups
by Prashant Muddu
by Ravi Tyagi
by Saurabh Drolia
by Thomas Hardjono
by Moderator: Jasminder Singh Gulati
01:00 pm
-
03:00 pm
Lunch at Vienna Café
03:00 pm
-
05:30 pm
Breakout Session 1: Identity, Payments and Open Networks
at Room C, United Nations HQ, New York
Moderated by Nagarajan Santhanam
by Harshit Kacholiya
Breakout Session 2: DPI Safeguards
at Room D, United Nations HQ, New York
by Session Lead: Sharad Sharma
by Keyzom Ngodup Massally
Friday, 26th
10:00 am
-
12:00 pm
Country Specific Citizen Stack (Bilateral Discussions)
at Permanent Mission of India, 235 E, 43rd St, New York