'Will take digital public infrastructure stack to 50 nations'

BENGALURU: Infosys chairperson and the brain behind digital public infrastructure (DPI) Nandan Nilekani said that a project is on to take DPI to 50 countries in five years. Some DPI projects are going on now in about 15 countries with help from Nilekani's team.

"The whole stack is a little complex to pull off, but a lot of the pieces of this are getting rolled out in many countries," Nilekani said at an event in Bengaluru.

Nilekani said the team is now working to create an open network for transactions in the energy & mobility segments. Another pet project, he said, is tokenisation of financial assets, or the concept of finternet. Finternet aims to create a network of interconnected financial ecosystems, much like how internet connects various information networks. The goal is to empower individuals and businesses by placing them at the centre of their financial lives, making transactions faster, more efficient, and more accessible.

Speaking at the same event, Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels pointed out that the e-commerce company is first a tech company and then a retailer, as the focus is always on building the right tech stack.