Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP launched a “Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) playbook for nations” designed to help countries understand, implement, and harness the potential of DPIs, as per their local digital preparedness.
The playbook was launched at the company’s Government Summit ‘Āarohaṇa (आरोहण): Growth with Impact’ in the presence of Dr. Pramod Varma, CTO EkStep Foundation and Chief Architect India Stack; Shankar Maruwara, CEO and Co-Founder at EkStep; Romal Shetty, CEO of Deloitte South Asia; and Deloitte’s global leaders from the Government and Public Services industry.
This DPI playbook comes at a time when the world, and particularly India, stands at the cusp of a technological revolution. Nations are witnessing unprecedented technological advancements, leading to a monumental shift in the way societies, businesses, citizens, and government operate, communicate, and evolve.
This playbook provides a framework that would help countries understand, implement, and harness the potential of DPIs to accelerate digital transformation. It further attempts to address funding and outreach strategies, emphasising the significance of securing financial support and engaging the right set of stakeholders and change managers.
The DPI playbook acts as a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders trying to define a DPI roadmap journey for their respective countries, solving for security and scale as a sustainable, affordable digital transformation strategy.
Sharing his view on the playbook, NSN Murty, Partner, Government and Public Services Consulting Leader, Deloitte India, said, “The DPI playbook will serve as a pivotal kick-starter, strategically redirecting governments, industry champions, and technologists towards a blueprint for DPIs with core design principles and a pragmatic building block approach. The playbook will provide countries with an essential launchpad to assess their existing DPI landscape. Both government departments and state ministries may use this playbook as a ready reckoner to institutionalise DPI and DPGs.”
The playbook focuses on reusing resources and adopting a strategic and sustainable transformation strategy. This will help countries maximise the impact of their DPI initiatives.
It outlines step-by-step guidance, combining existing resources with new developments, emphasising each country’s need for a technology foundation layer that is sector-agnostic, reusable, and globally applicable. The DPI features interoperability, serving as a standardised framework and common infrastructure that allows different sectors, such as healthcare, transportation, education, and finance, to connect and exchange information seamlessly. It also avoids duplicative efforts and redundant infrastructure development. DPI promotes resource optimisation using a standard digital infrastructure for multiple sectors.
The playbook allows for integrating new services, applications, and technologies without significant reconfiguration or rebuilding the underlying infrastructure and keeping pace with evolving requirements and advancements. It helps frame outlines, regulations, and standards that entities operating within the digital ecosystem must adhere to.
Promoting collaboration and information sharing amongst different sectors facilitates the exchange of best practices, knowledge, and insights amongst other sectors, enabling cross-sectoral innovation and problem-solving. It facilitates the exchange of best practices, knowledge, and insights, enabling cross-sectoral innovation and problem-solving.
The citizen-centric DPI adapts to local needs, ensuring intuitive and inclusive digital services for efficient local service delivery ecosystems. Its scalability gives a foundation that can accommodate the increasing demand from different sectors and scale up to support rising volumes of data, transactions, and users.
