DPI is India’s new soft power. But are we truly export-ready?
By Priyadarshi Nanu Pany, MD and CEO of CSM Technologies
When history looks back at how nations projected power, it will note that while the 20th century was won by those who controlled oil pipelines and blue-water navies, the 21st belongs to those who write the code for societal trust. For decades, India’s global calling card was the code-cutter- the tireless, back-office IT army driving corporate efficiencies from Bengaluru to Boston.
Today, that narrative has fundamentally mutated. India is no longer just writing software for the world; it is designing the very plumbing of modern civilization. Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has become New Delhi’s most potent diplomatic currency, a formidable soft-power asset that challenges both Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism and Beijing’s digital authoritarianism.
Yet, as the world beats a path to our door for the blueprints of Aadhaar and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), an unsettling question lingers in the...
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