About the Book: Indias Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the Worlds
Largest Democracy
This is a small book about big disruptions.
Over two decades, and across two different political regimes, the worlds largest
democracy combined the rise of cheap mobile phones, cheap data and a unique
digital ID system to create an unprecedented revolution in digital public goods.
This included the rise of path-breaking fintech systems like Unified Payments
Interface (UPI), the creation of a new kind of welfare state based on digital
direct benefit transfers and interlinked e-governance systems that brought
almost half a billion people who never had bank accounts into the financial
system.
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