The Indian government is working on developing Aadhaar-like "public digital platforms" for healthcare, education, employment, logistics and so on, Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) said at an online event on March 5. Blueprints of public digital platforms in education, agriculture, and primary sector are in an advanced stage; plans are being made for platforms for matching jobs with skills and for logistics, Sawhney said at India Soft 2021, a online conference organised by Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC). The public digital platforms for the respective sectors will come with their own regulatory sandboxes in case of regulated sectors and development testbeds in case of unregulated sectors, he added. Sandboxes provide opportunities for companies to create new products that will eventually become part of the system, he added. The design and motive of the platforms will be similar to that to Aadhaar, which Sawhney said was the first public digital platform in India. Aadhaar is an online digital identity that is now used for multiple services, with a law and authority in place. It’s an entire ecosystem wherein a large number of industry have participated to make use of the Aadhaar and use it in their businesses, he said. Similarly, UPI has led to the growth of PhonePe, Paytm, and Google Pay at an exponential pace. Public digital platforms can consolidate "fragmented implementations" in any domain and create a nationwide platform which is meant for not just the government to provide services but for the…
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Public digital platforms with regulatory sandboxes to come up for multiple sectors: IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney
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