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Vikram Sinha

Director Centre for Technology and Innovation

Vikram Sinha is Director, Centre for Technology and Innovation, and Research Fellow at Artha Global. His research also focuses on digital public infrastructure and digital competition. Prior to this, he was the Head of Data Governance unit at the IDFC Institute and steered the Institute’s communications. He managed the opinion pages at Mint where he established the newspaper’s stance on data and tech policy and governance issues. Over the course of a 15-year journalism career, he has also written extensively for the editorial page of the Times of India and Daily News & Analysis.

He holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and a Masters in Political Science from Mumbai University. He graduated from Mumbai University with a Bachelors degree in Journalism.

Related Articles

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An Analysis of DPIs Value-Generating Ability

By , Vikram Sinha, Sandeep Radhakrishnan & Ruhi Nadkarni

The paper analyses how open and well-governed Digital Public Infrastructure can drive private sector innovation and inclusive economic growth, positioning it as a “really new” institutional innovation between SaaS and general-purpose technologies.

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Artha Global’s Comments on the Universal DPI Safeguards Framework

By Lakshay Narang, Neha Jain, Vikram Sinha & Sridhar Ganapathy

We discuss broad as well as targeted recommendations to serve as the foundation of the Universal DPI Safeguards Framework.

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Leveraging Digital Public Infrastructure to Build More Inclusive Social Welfare Systems

By Nikita Kwatra, Priya Vedavalli, Sharmadha Srinivasan & Vikram Sinha

Digital ID systems allow residents of a country to have verifiable, non-falsifiable proof of identity, creating a mechanism for establishing trust – a rare commodity in LMICs

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CBDCs as a tool for financial inclusion

By Nikita Kwatra, Vikram Sinha & Dr. Hemant Adarkar

At its simplest, a CBDC is cash but in digital form. Similar to physical cash, it is issued by the central bank and guaranteed as a claim on the central bank reserves, can be accepted broadly, and results in instant transfer of value.