AWS and EkStep Collaborate to Foster and Accelerate Innovation in Digital Public Infrastructure
AWS has
collaborated with EkStep Foundation, a philanthropic initiative founded by
Nandan Nilekani, Rohini Nilekani, and Shankar Maruwada, to establish a Joint
Innovation Center (JIC) to foster the development of innovative digital
solutions for public service delivery. This joint effort creates digital public
goods (DPGs) and digital public infrastructures[2] (DPIs) for both PSUs and
commercial institutions in building and build socially and digitally inclusive
economies.
The JIC
includes owners and developers of DPGs/ DPIs; enablers like startups, ISVs and
SIs and adopters/ implementers like governments, multilateral organisations,
and private sector entities. It will promote collaboration among these
stakeholders to develop DPGs and DPIs for sectors such as education,
agriculture, finance, healthcare, and climate change, and help accelerate
societal transformation.
AWS will
explore featuring the DPGs on AWS Marketplace and distribute the solutions. AWS
will further explore featuring the DPGs and DPIs on the Open Government
Solutions Catalog, “Governments and organisations serving the public at large
are increasingly seeing how DPIs using cloud computing and open-source
solutions can provide scalable, secure, agile, and efficient services to
people, accelerating public service transformation programs”, said Shalini
Kapoor, Director and Chief Technologist, AWS India Private Limited.
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