Nikhil Kamath x Nandan Nilekani | People by WTF | Ep #3

People by WTF

16-09-2024 • 1 hr 6 mins

India today is a different India, when compared to 10 years ago. A lot of it has to do with The India Stack Journey (a set of open API's & digital public goods). Interesting to note how opportunity to serve at population scale is the theme of these innovations.


In this episode of People by WTF, we sat with Nandan Nilekani to understand the trajectory of building this advanced Digital Public Infrastructure in India, which has made a significant impact in each of our day to day lives.


Time stamps -

00:00 - Introduction

02:40 - India Stack

03:25- Journey of Infosys

06:24 - Imagining India - Digitising the Future

08:15 - Nandan on meeting Rohini

09:40 - Journey of India Stack: Aadhar

13:11 - DPI - Digital Public Infrastructure

15:07 - Online Authentication & KYC

17:15 - Jan Dhan Program

19:00 - E- sign/ Digilocker

20:40 - 2016 - a big digital transformation for India

22:36 - BHIM - Ease of Payments

26:49 - How has UPI changed India’s ecosystem?

30:00 - Nandan on vision with Population Scale

32:50 - Account Aggregation

37:40 - Fast TAG & broad benefits of UPI

40:10 - What should a 25 y/o build on top of India Stack?

42:50 - What is Fee Day & Beckn Protocol?

46:00 - Namma Yatri - Something built on top of Beckn

49:10 - Nandan on Artificial Intelligence

55:40 - What is Finternet?

1:01:20 - Rapid Fire With Nandan

1:04:00 - Advice to 20 y/o with funding


Reading Resources for more information -


https://nksqr.notion.site/Additional-Resources-Nikhil-Kamath-x-Nandan-Nilekani-People-by-WTF-Ep-3-101a9e22882a80dea449edf52c8c1676


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#NandanNilekani - Co-founder of Infosys, Ex-Chairman of UIDAI

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