Global DPI Summit and Global DPI Exhibition inaugurated by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State in Electronics and IT and MSDE, Government of India in the august presence of Hon’ble Ministers from nine countries
The third meeting of G20 DEWG started today with the inauguration of the Global DPI Summit and Global DPI Exhibition, which were inaugurated by Union Minister of State in Electronics and IT and MSDE, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar in the presence of Hon’ble Ministers from 9 countries namely Suriname, Armenia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Antigua and Barbuda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago.
In the inaugural session, Mr. Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Chair of G20 DEWG and Secretary, MeitY welcomed the delegates and outlined the proceedings of the event over 3 days. He emphasized on priority areas especially DPI related One Future Alliance, Global Digital Public Infrastructure Repository, Toolkit on Cyber Education and Cyber Awareness of Children and Youth, virtual Centre of Excellence (CoE) on national skills frameworks. Hon’ble MoS for E&IT and MSDE, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated that DPI is not a one shoe, fits all model, and is really about using the power of open source, the power of partnership and collaborations in creating innovative DPI platforms that work for that country and for the people. He stressed on making this decade ‘TechAde’ and stated that India is a test case for the success of DPIs and countries across the world can look to India for digital transformation. India signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with three countries namely Armenia, Sierra Leone, and Suriname on sharing INDIA STACK i.e. successful digital solutions implemented at population scale.
The panel discussion titled ‘Overview of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)’ was chaired by Mr. Melford Walter Fitzgerald Nicholas, Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and the session was moderated by Mr. Abhishek Singh, P&CEO, NeGD, and speakers included Mr. Sushil Pal, JS, MeitY and G20 DEWG Co-Chair, India, Dr. R. S. Sharma, Chairman, GSDPDC, Mr. S Gopalkrishnan, CEO, NHA, Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Special Secretary, MEA and Ms. Christine Martin Meier, Director, Digital Public Goods Charter and Ms. Keyzom Ngodup Massally, Head of Digital Programmes, UNDP. The session discussed the common principles and design of DPI, such as, open standard, open architecture, partnerships, digital ecosystem, interoperability, low cost, and high trust solutions and the initiatives of various countries and United Nations.
