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India's Digital Dream, Stalled - by Vedica Kant

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There was a moment, roughly a decade ago, when India’s digital future seemed inevitable.

There was a moment, roughly a decade ago, when India’s digital future seemed inevitable. At the heart of this vision was Aadhaar, perhaps the most ambitious civilian technological project ever attempted. To give a billion-plus people a secure, verifiable digital identity was a staggering feat of engineering and logistics. It was a bold answer to a fundamental question: in a vast and diverse country, how does the state reliably know its people? Aadhaar became the bedrock of the “India Stack,” a set of open APIs and digital public goods that aimed to unlock a new era of innovation and…

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