This article is authored by Sameer Suryakant Patil, Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology, Observer Research Foundation (ORF); Anna Maria Collard, Senior Vice President, Content Strategy, KnowBe4; Balasubramanian Kalyan Kumar, Chief Product Officer, HCLSoftware, HCLTech; and Achyut Chandra, GovTech and Open Innovation Lead, HCLSoftware, HCLTech.

• India's digital public infrastructure (DPI) serves over 1.3 billion citizens and processes more than 10 billion monthly transactions.

  
  

• It enables direct access to services for millions of people and creates significant savings for the government.

  
  

• India’s DPI journey involved addressing critical security and privacy challenges, providing essential lessons for other countries.