Analysis
Essays on the hard questions: governance, safeguards, open source, health systems and how to measure impact.
- Digital public infrastructure for health: what India's ABDM is building, and what it still needs
An analysis of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), launched in September 2021: health accounts, registries, consent-based health information exchange and the Unified Health Interface, and the open questions on consent, standards adoption and data protection.
- Measuring the impact of digital public infrastructure: beyond transaction counts
How to measure whether digital public infrastructure works: why adoption numbers are not outcomes, what the IMF, BIS and field experiments in India found, and a practical set of indicators covering reliability, inclusion, cost, market structure and trust.
- Open source or proprietary? How governments should choose software for public infrastructure
A balanced analysis of open-source and proprietary software in government technology: what the evidence and policies say (EU, France, Italy, UK, US, Germany), real costs, security, lock-in and skills, and a decision framework for public infrastructure.
- What makes digital public infrastructure good, not just big?
Digital public infrastructure is now a global policy priority, from the G20 to the UN's 50-in-5 campaign. An analysis of five tests that separate good DPI from systems that are merely large: purpose, reach, rights, markets and resilience.
- Who governs digital public infrastructure? Operators, oversight and the UN safeguards push
An analysis of how digital public infrastructure is governed: the main operator models (agency, statutory authority, not-for-profit, central bank, intergovernmental), the accountability mechanisms that matter, and the UN-led Universal DPI Safeguards Framework and 50-in-5 campaign.
