While CoP-30 at Belém will have another round of global climate deliberations, it’s the world’s innovators—public and private—we must rely on to rewrite the script.
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.
The paper explores how the layered structure of Digital Public Infrastructure (spanning identity, payments, data sharing, and discovery) drives economic transformation when effectively integrated and governed as a coherent, networked system.
Joel Mokyr, the 2025 Nobel Laureate, argues that sustained economic growth—from the Industrial Revolution to China’s industrial success—relies on a powerful synergy.
Given its rising popularity, it is important to examine it through a critical lens. Much depends on how industrial policy is crafted. The tale of Korea’s Hyundai versus Malaysia’s Proton offers a lesson.
This study assessed how effectively the MOSIP platform supports countries in aligning their Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) with
the recommendations of the UN Universal DPI Safeguards Framework, released in September 2024.
This study uncovers how UPI is unfolding on the ground – what’s working, what’s not, and why – through the lens of users’ and merchants’ perceptions and experiences.