India’s digital sovereignty gaps are concentrated in seven foundational hardware dependencies
India has developed significant indigenous capabilities across its digital infrastructure stack but remains dependent on foreign proprietary technologies at seven foundational points, according to a new assessment by the Bharath Digital Infrastructure Association (BDIA).
The report, Securing India’s Digital Foundations: A National Capability Assessment of Bharat’s Digital Infrastructure Stack and Sovereign Readiness, assesses 29 technology domains and argues that India’s digital sovereignty challenge is concentrated largely in hardware and materials rather than software.
Of the 29 domains assessed, the report identifies six where India has strong indigenous capability, 11 where Indian companies compete on foreign foundations and five where sovereign deployment is possible through open-source technologies. Seven domains, however, remain dependent on foreign proprietary supply.
These seven areas are specialty materials and chemistry, subsea cable systems, semiconductor fabrication and tooling, compute, memory and accelerator silicon, storage hardware and media, merchant network silicon, and root-of-trust and cryptographic silicon.
The assessment comes...
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