{"id":11456,"date":"2024-03-27T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/aws-ekstep-foundation-partner-to-develop-digital-public-goods\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:08:01","slug":"aws-ekstep-foundation-partner-to-develop-digital-public-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/aws-ekstep-foundation-partner-to-develop-digital-public-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS, EkStep Foundation partner to develop digital public goods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon Web Services<\/a> (AWS) India on Tuesday announced its collaboration with EkStep Foundation<\/a>, a non-profit organisation in Bengaluru. <\/p>\n

The two organisations have established a Joint Innovation Center<\/a> (JIC) to develop digital solutions for public service delivery such as digital public goods<\/a> (DPGs) and digital public infrastructures (DPIs). <\/p>\n

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Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), a global DPG developed for issuing trusted foundational identifications, currently at different stages of adoption in 17 countries is serving more than 110 million people. <\/p>\n

MOSIP\u2019s development and pilot environments use AWS for rapid deployment and scale. <\/p>\n

Namma Yatri, a popular autorickshaw booking application is built on the Beckn protocol, which enables the creation of open, peer-to-peer decentralised networks for pan-sector economic transactions. <\/p>\n

Namma Yatri building on AWS has scaled the application to serve five million commuters across eight cities in six months, and generate Rs. 4.5 billion as commission-free earnings to drivers. <\/p>\n

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JIC aims to support both public sector and commercial institutions in building digital solutions for population-scale use while helping governments build digitally inclusive economies. According to the Nasscom-Arthur D Little report titled Digital Public Infrastructure<\/a> of India \u2013 Accelerating India\u2019s Digital Inclusion, the economic value addition from DPIs to India\u2019s GDP has the potential to grow 3x \u2013 from 0.9% in 2022 to 2.9 \u2013 4.2% by 2030. <\/p>\n

The JIC by AWS and EkStep will be a mechanism to bring together key stakeholders.<\/p>\n

These stakeholders include owners and developers of DPGs\/ DPIs, enablers like startups, independent software vendors (ISVs), and system integrators (SIs), and adopters\/ implementers like governments, multilateral organisations, and private sector entities. <\/p>\n

The JIC will promote collaboration among these stakeholders to develop DPGs and DPIs for sectors such as education, agriculture, finance, healthcare, and climate change. <\/p>\n

It will focus on supporting startups, ISVs, and SIs to use cloud computing, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics from AWS, help them invent new use cases for DPGs and DPIs, incubate them, and enhance existing ones, and offer comprehensive starter kits for states and countries interested in such solutions. <\/p>\n

To enable ease-of-use and faster adoption, the DPGs and DPIs will be packaged for one-click deployment via the AWS Partner Network (APN), which features more than 130,000 partners from more than 200 countries. <\/p>\n

AWS will explore featuring the DPGs on AWS Marketplace, providing a global channel to showcase and distribute the solutions. <\/p>\n

AWS will further explore featuring the DPGs and DPIs on the Open Government Solutions Catalog, which provides government organisations with valuable resources such as digital solutions, policies, and standards, enabling them to explore and reuse proven approaches to digital transformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernments and organisations serving the public at large are increasingly seeing how DPIs using cloud computing and open-source solutions can provide scalable, secure, agile, and efficient services to people,\u201d said Shalini Kapoor, director, AWS India Private Limited. <\/p>\n

EkStep Foundation, a philanthropic initiative founded by Nandan Nilekani, Rohini Nilekani, and Shankar Maruwada, aims to utilise technology to build population scale public goods. <\/p>\n

EkStep\u2019s Sunbird, an open-source, modular, and configurable digital infrastructure can help organisations scale the delivery of resources to users. <\/p>\n

Sunbird can be applied for a variety of applications such as capacity building and professional development in education, and credentialing, accreditation, and capturing health records in healthcare. <\/p>\n

It can be used to record crop quality, standards, soil quality, and inventory, in agriculture, supporting financial inclusion by capturing people\u2019s income certificates and credit worthiness, and driving climate-positive actions by recording carbon credits and sustainability scores for products and organisations. <\/p>\n

Shankar Maruwada, cofounder, EkStep Foundation, said, \u201cThe establishment of a JIC marks a leap towards the adoption and scaling of India’s DPIs with the extensive reach of AWS\u2019s Partner Network. It takes a collaborative effort to build and implement digital solutions at population-scale, especially in the era of AI.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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