BDIA identifies Seven critical digital dependencies for India
The Bharath Digital Infrastructure Association (BDIA) has released a national assessment of India’s digital infrastructure capabilities, identifying seven foundational areas where the country remains dependent on foreign-proprietary supply and calling for a control-based approach to digital sovereignty.
Titled Securing India’s Digital Foundations: A National Capability Assessment of Bharat’s Digital Infrastructure Stack and Sovereign Readiness, the assessment evaluates India’s capabilities across 29 technology domains. It finds that India builds the defining capability in six domains and builds competitively on foreign foundations in 11 and can deploy sovereignly through open-source technologies in five, while seven domains remain dependent on foreign proprietary supply.
The report’s central finding is that all seven dependencies are concentrated in hardware and materials rather than software. These include semiconductor fabrication and tooling; subsea cable manufacturing; speciality materials such as germanium; enterprise storage media; advanced compute and memory silicon; merchant network silicon; and secure cryptoprocessor silicon at the...
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