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What Is India Stack?

What Is India Stack?

India Stack is the moniker for a set of open APIs and digital public goods that aim to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale.

  • The vision of India Stack is not limited to one country
  • It can be applied to any nation, be it a developed one or an emerging one.
  • It is the collection of Application Peripheral Interfaces launched by the Government of India.
  • This includes BHIM, Digilocker, UPI, and several other applications.
  • According to a recent report from the IT Ministry around seven countries are to join India Stack.
  • India is planning to export its digital products.
  • The government of India is currently looking for certified Stack Developers.
  • The plan is to hire them just as the big giants like Microsoft and Google hire certified analysts.
  • BHIM is being used in Bhutan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Japan. Nepal was the first to implement UPI.