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Open House on Economic Model of Personal Health Records

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Economic Model of Personal Health Records

Decoding the fundamentals of API in payments

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India Stack: A Developer’s Approach  Introduction Today in India we have available development platform and growing market for the successful practice of india oriented software and app development.  This development platform is characterized as India Stack- IndiaStack is a complete set of API, made available under the Open API Policy, which enables development of payment-enabled Apps. It includes Aadhaar for Authentication (Aadhaar already covers over 940 million people and will quickly cover the population of the entire nation providing the world’s largest authentication system), e-KYC documents (safe deposit locker for issue, storage and use of documents), e-Sign (digital signature acceptable under the laws), unified payment interface (for financial transactions) and privacy-protected data sharing within the stack of API. Together, the India Stack enables Apps that could open up many opportunities in financial services, healthcare and education sectors of the Indian economy. What

Digital India | Resources are public good

Digital India |  Resources are public good Digital India has adopted open government policy and standards. Accordingly, Digital India Resources both infrastructure and data are open  and available for public consumption through open API and open Government data. The Open API Technically each of the above layer is built and operated as an API. These layers are collectively called Indiastack.  Indiastack API are open. By open we mean that public can access these APIs and build commercial apps or customised apps for their institutional purpose. Example:  An institution can use Aadhaar API  to build a custom attendance system for its students or employees  An enterprise can use Digilocker API to manage documents A business can use UPI for building an app for salary disbursement  Digital India | Open Government Data  Under open government data policy all data collected by using public funds is available for public access and use. Citizens and enterprises can access da

Public Good and Business Innovation

Public Goods is the bedrock for Business Innovation  Public goods are potential fuel  for innovation, they are free and friction-less. Elsewhere in the world, Public goods have provided a bedrock on which companies have built products and services creating new economies.  For instance ,  take the case of iPhone by Apple Company, the pathbreaking product in the mobile industry Each of its core technologies–capacitive sensors, solid-state memory, the click wheel, GPS, internet, cellular communications, Siri, microchips, touchscreen—came from research efforts and government funding support. Hence   iPhone was the dividend of and  the result of public goods created by government funded research projects.  GPS is another public goods and is a foundational component in products such as Google maps and services such as Uber, Ola , What3words and more .