As India celebrated its 75th anniversary of independence last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set forth a compelling vision to make India “a developed nation over the next 25 years.” With resilient economic growth strongly driven by technology and innovative approaches to governance, we see a lot of reason to be optimistic about this vision. Over the past year, CPI has been exploring trends that we see driving progress across the public and social sectors that are not only reimagining government in India, but are serving as examples for other countries as well.
First is the movement across India towards the creation of Digital Public Goods. Earlier this year Prime Minister Modi opened up India’s e-governance tools - India Stack - as a signal of India’s global leadership around digital transformation. The second is the exciting collaborations we are seeing across the public, social, and private sectors to tackle complex challenges like equitable access to healthcare and securing a renewable energy future for India. Here are some of our favourite examples of these trends in action:
Digital Infrastructure for Verifiable Open Credentialing (DIVOC): Our partners at eGov Foundation have developed this open-source platform for tracking Covid-19 vaccinations and issuing digital certificates forover 1 billion Indians. The platform has enabled the government to rapidly scale-up vaccinations for Covid-19 in the country and issue tamper-proof and secure certificates. The tool is a digital public good which also meets WHO and EU standards and is recognised by 120 countries globally.
Indian Administrative Fellowship: This program, led by The/Nudge Institute, provides a platform for senior private sector professionals to embed themselves within India’s bureaucracy to bring in fresh ideas and perspectives to drive action towards government vision. It boasts having CEOs and CXOs in the program and has now expanded to the second state in the country, recognising the need for reimagining governance in a vastly complex country such as India.
Green energy ecosystem:As part of their commitment to expand clean energy access in India's rural communities, Rockefeller Foundation has created an innovative model with government and other stakeholders to incubate entities with successful business models. One such example is seen in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, where they've helped enterprises thrive through testing of such business models around clean energy.
Do you know of other organisations working to drive collaboration across sectors to tackle complex challenges in India? We’d love to learn more. Please get in touch to discuss how we can reimagine government in India together!
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The Centre for Public Impact is a global not-for-profit organisation founded by the Boston Consulting Group. We serve as a learning partner for governments, public servants and the diverse network of changemakers who are leading the charge to reimagine government. We work with them to hold space to collectively make sense of the complex challenges we face and drive meaningful change through learning and experimentation.
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