DigiLocker (2015): India’s Paperless Document Wallet
Launched on 1st July 2015 as part of the Digital India initiative, DigiLocker is the flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY)
Category Center for ICT for Development
India’s Deep Tech Fund of Funds (2025): Catalyzing Innovation in Emerging Technologies
The Indian government launched a ₹10,000 crore Fund of Funds in Union Budget 2025 to concentrate on deep-tech startups as part of its mission to enhance sectors including artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, biotechnology and semiconductors. This program seeks to establish India as a worldwide frontier technology leader through the provision of initial stage funding and innovation networks development.
Chips, Skills, and Systems: The Story of India’s Special Manpower Development Programme for Chips to System Design Initiative (SMDP-C2SD-2014)
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched in 2014 the Special Manpower Development Programme for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD).
AI, Digital Sovereignty, and Geopolitics: India’s Strategic Positioning Between the U.S. and China
This article draws from both domestic and international policy documents and global analyses and explains how India is strategically positioning itself strategically between the two AI superpowers of the U.S. and China.
Bridging the Cybersecurity Knowledge Gap: A Policy Perspective
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has revolutionised modern life, yet vulnerable groups such as primary school-aged children and retirees remain disproportionately exposed to cyber threats. While these groups are the focus of this policy proposal due to their distinct
challenges—children facing risks such as cyberbullying, and retirees vulnerable to losing their hard-earned life savings to scams—this in no way diminishes the importance of cyber literacy for other demographics.
USAID: The Harbinger of Global Agony
The United States’ rapid abandonment of conflict-ridden countries will only escalate the peripheral status of these nations, causing a great deal of pain to women, children, and the gender diverse individuals, who are already marginalized. It becomes all the more essential to divulge in talks on feminist foreign policies that need to be put on the forefront, to stand against gender apartheid, on a global scale.
Harnessing AI for Education: India’s Path to a Smarter Future
Even as bright minds in Indian information technology debate whether India should focus on creating applications using existing artificial intelligence (AI) models or spend time and energy developing foundational models and carrying out fundamental research, there is one area of indisputable consensus.