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Pramod Varma... on digital architecture and creating hope

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 62:51

Abhay chats with Pramod Varma, the visionary technologist who helped architect India's digital transformation, enabling over a billion people to access digital identity, banking, payments, and verifiable credentials, fundamentally reshaping India's social and economic landscape. (0:00 - 3:41) Introduction(3:41) Part 1 - Describing what he does, transforming India into the transaction economy(20:34) Part 2 - Verbs not nouns, connecting tech to everyone, lessons in equity, personal learning(42:28) Part 3 - leading for magnitude and scale, art and aesthetics, prioritizing equity(1:00:59) ConclusionPramod is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Architect of FIDE.org leading global efforts such as BECKN Protocol and FINTERNET.He has been the chief architect of most of India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) efforts starting with Aadhaar - India's unique ID system that covers 1.4 Billion people; eSign - an interoperable digital signature protocol; DigiLocker - digital credentialing and wallet system having over 9 billion verifiable credentials and over 400 million users; and UPI - the unified instant payment system that was launched in 2016 currently doing over 18 Billion transactions a month.He also played a key role in designing and architecting India's indirect tax (GST) system, national toll collection system, digital health infrastructure, digital agri infrastructure, and digital education infrastructure.Intro:The world needs more heroes, so let me thank you first for your heroism in an effort to engage here and choose TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING as a part of your day and even a small part of your life. I appreciate you watching and subscribing on YouTube, listening on all of the podcast platforms, rating and writing reviews, following on those good old social media places, and sharing this with all your friends and family. Now if I really think about heroic feats in this digital age we live in, I can't think of a better person who effectively embodies it than Pramod Varma. Pramod is a computer scientist and for over the past decade and a half, he has been the driving designer of tech inclusion, equity, and connectivity to India's entire population. He is the chief architect behind many of India's digital public infrastructure initiatives like Aadhar - the digital identity system covering 1.4 billion people that enabled banking access from almost nothing to above 80% in just a decade, and similarly e-sign, account aggregator for open finance, and of course the UPI or Unified Payments Interface that is now processing over 18 billion transactions in India every month. Staggering is a word that comes to my mind, but still doesn't do justice to the scale and scope of work that Pramod has designed and is continuing to lead. He grew up in a small town in Kerala, earned his PhD in computer science and a masters in applied mathematics. Pramod is highly driven by curiosity and equipped with an insatiable thirst for broadly understanding humanity through art and knowledge. After journeying successfully through the early days of the internet in a variety of entrepreneurial and tech leadership roles, Pramod made a deep pivot in 2009 to volunteer on a national digital identity project, and the rest is as they say history. And for those keeping score at home, Pramod's initial success in harnessing a team to do this at scale and at the cost of about 70 rupees per person, was all open sourced and unbundled, so that you could build iterative and supplemental layers on this important foundation for years to come. He is currently the co-founder and chief architect of “Networks for Humanity” creating universal technology infrastructure for the AI driven digital economy and for the tokenization and exchange of all forms of assets across geographies and sectors. A few of the visions that he has co-created are the Finternet, an initiative to build infrastructure that empowers individuals and businesses to unify, verify, and transact their assets seamlessly, enabling billions of people to actively participate in the global digital economy, and also the Beckn Protocol, a vision for peer-to-peer, agentic native, open networks that enable exchange across the global value chains. As you can guess, while most are playing checkers, I feel like Pramod is playing 4-dimensional chess… while keeping a grounded lens on disciplined equity, education, and inclusion. We caught up to chat about it all, but with so many descriptors of his work and accomplishments, especially for people who are getting to know him, I wanted to first simply hear how Pramod tends to describe himself.Cheers to INDIASPORA for the spark!

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Hindi GuruKul - Suno Kahani

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 13:42

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hindi suno kahani aadhar gurukul

April 8, 2025

Dostcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 122:16

Aryaan Misra and Aishwarya Singh are the founders of Desi Studios and co-hosts of the Desi Crime Podcast. Based in South Asia, they run the region's first thriller-focused digital studio, telling wild, real stories from across the subcontinent. From true crime and horror to on-site paranormal investigations, Desi Studios is changing how South Asians experience thrillers.In this episode, Vinamre, Aryaan, and Aishwarya talk about:- Aryaan's insane journey through Syria, including a surreal encounter with ISIS-controlled areas.- Living in different parts of the world — from Delhi to Israel and Australia.- The chaos of traveling the world: losing passports, using an Aadhar card in the U.S.- Oura Ring, and how the future of content is changing fast.- The wildest, most unhinged drunk stories — from clubs in Mumbai to chaos abroad.Watch this episode for wild travel stories, drunk nights, lost passports, and a moment in ISIS territory.Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 01:15 – The reincarnation story in Beirut 04:30 – What it was like for Aishwarya to move to Delhi 12:36 – Losing a passport and using an Aadhar card in the U.S. 16:16 – How Vinamre lost his iPad 26:17 – What it's really like living in Israel 31:37 – Aryaan's wildest experience in America 40:15 – Why people fall in love with the U.S. 44:16 – Aishwarya's adventures in Australia 45:50 – The benefits of waking up early 52:05 – Aryaan's surreal journey through Syria with ISIS 01:02:58 – Is he not scared of traveling to these countries? 01:08:47 – Vinamre and Aryaan's upcoming trip to Japan 01:18:35 – Their upcoming investigative show 01:21:21 – How AI will change the content industry 01:25:56 – Life with the Oura Ring: tracking health or going crazy? 01:32:52 – Over-reliance on sleep vs. living life and gaining experiences 01:38:00 – True stories of Charles Sobhraj 01:42:30 – Crazy drunk stories 01:50:35 – Wildest night in a Mumbai club 01:53:40 – More drunk stories 02:02:20 – Conclusion 02:04:10 – Unveiling a special gift====================================================================This is the official channel for Dostcast, a podcast by Vinamre Kasanaa. Connect with meLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinamre-kasanaa-b8524496/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinamrekasanaa/Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinamreKasanaaDostcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dostcast/Dostcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dostcastDostcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557567524054====================================================================Contact UsFor business inquiries: dostcast@egiplay.com

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