In this fourth Open House Session, we have Dr Pramod Varma, Chief Architect - Aadhaar & India Stack, giving you an insight into what it takes to volunteer in iSPIRT. He describes our design principles for building digital public infrastructure and gives you a peek into the thought process of an architect in iSPIRT. Finally, he breaks down how we are redefining the approach towards solving societal problems. We are playground builders. We orchestrate or create a playground so that market players can bring out an array of solutions. iSPIRT is addressing solvability. We have a multi-decade horizon as a mission-oriented volunteer-based Think-and-Do-Tank. As part of this session, we have our volunteers explaining the technical challenges you can embrace as new volunteers. The problems that we are tackling require a thought process that is new and innovative. We use cutting-edge technology. In addition to the new technical volunteering opportunities outlined in this session, other policy-related and ecosystem-building volunteer options also exist. Apply now on https://volunteers.ispirt.in Do visit: https://youtu.be/KZngoIy-hZ0 to watch the recording of the fourth open house session on Youtube.

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Balloon Volunteer Open House
Session#4: Technology
Volunteers
30th June, 2021

2. DEPA, AA
Digital Locker, PHR
UPI, AEPS, APB, OCEN, UHI, BECKN
Aadhaar, eKYC, eSign
Smart
Governance
Jan Dhan, DBT &
Financial inclusion
Health Insurance,
NDHM
Faster
Payments
Skilling &
Education
Digital
Lending
Tax
Reform
India's Infrastructure
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Many innovative & inclusive solutions on shared
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)
Playground Building over
Product Building

3. Government
Applications
Departments/
Ministries
Government
Old
Approach
Closed System,
Slow Innovation
Apps
Platforms,
Appstores, OS
Big Tech
Big Tech
Approach
Walled Garden,
Winner takes all
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Diverse Innovation from
Market and Society
Interoperable DPI
(open APIs/protocols,
enabling platforms and
policies)
India
Approach
Addresses diversity
Development Friendly,
Layered Innovation
Government /
Regulators

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Societal Platforms Thinking
Dr. Pramod Varma on Societal Platforms
Technology Principles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S-599usfjc&a
b_channel=SocietalPlatform
● Restoring Agency
● Resolving for Diversity
● Catalysing Networks
○ Samaaj (Civil Society), Bazaar (Market),
Sarkaar (Government)
● Sharing Solvability
● Inspiring Co-Creation
● Building Public Goods
● Seeking Rapid Evolution
● Demonstrating system leadership
● Empowering with data
Reference:
https://societalplatform.org/role-of-technology-in-core-princi
ples-of-societal-platform-thinking/
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5. 30 yr Architects
10 yr Planners
5 yr Doers
• Think Tanks
• Universities
• Research Labs
• VCs
• Policy Makers
• Incumbents
• Challengers
iSPIRT Foundation: a non-profit Tech Think-and-Do Tank
Driving 30-year Orbit Shifts
Powered by no-greed and no-glory volunteering!

6. Technical Volunteering Opportunities
1. Wireless Access Network Interface (WANI) - Siddharth Shetty
2. Public-Private Ledger - Danny Nene
3. India CBDC - Sanjay Phadke
4. India Smart Contracts - Karan Sirdesai
5. Health Policy Markup Language - Sunu Engineer
6. Unified Health Interface (UHI) for Telemedicine - Anirudh Tiwari
7. eVouchers - Dimple Jain
8. Health Claims Platform - Sanjoy Bose
9. Doctor Registry - Sharad
10. LiveStack for WeSPIRT - Vijay Vujjini
11. DEPA 2.0 Specs - Nitin Soni
12. Digital Sky - Siddharth Ravikumar
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7. Technical Volunteering Opportunities

8. WANI (Wireless Access Network Interface)
Presenter: Siddharth Shetty
● What is WANI?
○ WANI is an open protocol that unbundles the last-mile leg of providing internet connectivity
into Public Data Officers (PDOs), PDOAs, App Providers, Access Point Providers (Software &
Hardware), and ISPs thus democratizing access to the internet.
● How far along are we?
○ The core technical design is complete and it underwent a successful pilot and was recently
launched by the PM
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with a technical background in telecom networks
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9. Public Private Ledger
Presenter: Danny Nene
What: Privacy maintaining, trust enhancing
foundation for supporting digital currencies and
commerce across India and beyond
More: https://bit.ly/pplmore
How Far: Early days of architecture outline and
reference implementation
Key areas: Cryptography, Cryptocurrency
technologies, Zero knowledge proofs,
Distributed consensus, Smart contracts, High
speed messaging and nation level scalability
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Notary Notary
Wallet
Operator
Wallet
Operator
Inter Notary Protocol
Inter Operator Protocol
Transaction Registration Protocol
CBDC Account eWallet
Goods Flow Invoice More…... Standing Instructions
And Contracts
Public Ledger
Private
Ledger
Private
Ledger
Us and the ecosystem
Schemas

10. CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)
Presenter: Sanjay Phadke
● What is CBDC?
○ CBDC is the future of money, which changed from cowrie shells to gold to coin to paper to phone
wallet and to cryptocurrency. We started with understanding what money is (IOU), understanding how
cash in pocket can move to digital currency and interoperate with other forms of digital money. We
studied global CBDC comparisons and came up with Indian imperatives, which are leapfrogging
inclusion and economic growth.
● How far along are we?
○ The base layer of technical architecture has been described under PPL and reference implementation
with zero knowledge proofs is ongoing as well as specifying the top layer of smart contracts
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● What kind of volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with cross sectional expertise in system design, crypto, economics, legal fields
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11. India Smart Contracts
Presenter: Karan Sirdesai
● What is India Smart Contracts?
○ While ease of payments has been solved for in India, the initiation and execution of
commercial activities (which happens before payments) is still messy, ultimately leading to
India being a “low trust” society. The smart contract layer aims to build a set of interfaces for
entities to make promises (IOUs), act on them (recorded in the PPL) and settle dues (with
CBDC or other monies). The vision is for this layer to enable a high trust society, which
ultimately would lead to ease of transactions and faster economic growth for India.
● How far along are we?
○ Very early days. Initial vision is being built. Interfaces will be co-built with PPL and CBDC.
● What kind of volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with cross sectional expertise in building smart contracts, blockchain protocols,
supply chain / commerce, legal
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Presenter: Sunu Engineer

13. UHI (Unified Health Interface) For Telemedicine
Presenter: Anirudh Tiwari
● What is UHI for Telemedicine?
○ UHI is an open protocol to connect doctors and patients to interact using telemedicine in an
interoperable and sessionless fashion.
○ UHI weaves together PHR, Doctor Registry, etc. to revolutionize the telemedicine experience
by providing a way for patients to discover doctors across the nation and the doctors to be
able to provide their services to a wide range of patients.
● How far along are we?
○ The conceptual design is finalized and UHI has been announced by the PM. We are working
on translating the conceptual design into technical framework and will start building the
reference app.
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ People with experience in designing systems, backend APIs, and microservices architecture.
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14. E-Vouchers
Presenter: Dimple Jain
● What is E-Voucher?
○ E-Vouchers are prepaid instrument for beneficiaries, built on UPI as backbone, which can be
redeemed at a predefined list of Payees for specific use case.
○ For e.g. ABC corporate can issue Covid voucher vaccines for its employees redeemable at a
private hospital chain in India
● How far along are we?
○ Designing the E-voucher use case to identify how government schemes can be integrated,
issued and redeemed through E-vouchers
○ PMO press release on E-vouchers’ potential use case for healthcare services
● What kind of Volunteers are we looking for?
○ People with experience in designing systems, backend APIs, and microservices architecture

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Health Claims Platform
Presenter: Sanjoy Bose
● What is Health Claims Platform?
○ Platform for health insurance claim settlement related information exchange between Providers, Payers &
Beneficiaries based on Open Standard.
○ Provides Open Apis for interoperability between the Provider & Payer Systems and Open and Extensible
schema for the claims related information.
○ Enforces Secured & Privacy Preserving information exchange
○ Enables better fraud detection capability
○ Enables health insurance claims settlement for IPD, OPD, Pharmacy at scale and at fraction of cost.
● How far along we are?
○ High level architecture of various components of the platform
○ Open Apis for first set of use-cases (cashless claim processing for hospitalisation) under review
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with expertise of System design, Apis, Data security, Machine Learning

16. Doctor Registry (part of Health Stack)
Presenter: Sharad Sharma
● What is Doctor Registry?
○ It’s an authenticable Open-API based Registry of ~1m Allopathic Doctors registered with State
Medical Councils or National Medical Council. To be extended to approved AYUSH Doctors as well
○ This registry would allow eSign by Doctors, payment to Doctors, use of PHR, etc. It would prevent
impersonation of Doctors by digital systems
○ It would allow secondary registries to be built by private sector where clinic timings, and other details
may be stored
○ It will have a simple but secure onboarding process for Doctors
● How far along are we?
○ Conceptual design is in place but the data structure and Open APIs need to be fleshed o
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with a technical background in microservices APIs and basic familiarity with Aadhaar
authentication
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17. LiveStack for WeSPIRT
Presenter: Vijay Vujjini
● What is LiveStack?
○ The goal is to create a many more iSpirt’s under sister banner WeSPIRT.
○ LiveStack objective is to enable better care and responsible utilization of livestock in India.
○ Mimic the success of India Stack in the areas of technology, market and policy architectures
● How far along are we?
○ Helped define the National Digital Livestock Mission (NDLM) blueprint with reference
architecture.
○ Delivery partner on-boarding in next few weeks.
○ Continue to guide teams on tech, market and policy architectures.
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with a technical background in architecting large scale systems using open source.
○ Opportunity to define new open standards in this area that enables interoperability.
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18. DEPA 2.0 (Data Empowerment & Protection Architecture)
Presenter: Nitin Soni
● What is DEPA?
○ DEPA is envisioned to implement the Consent layer in India Stack.
○ It's the 2nd generation after the AA framework. (ref: https://sahamati.org.in/)
○ Follow @ https://github.com/iSPIRT/DEPA
○ Ref : https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020-09/DEPA-Book_0.pdf
● How far along are we?
○ AA already live in the field, launched by RBI. Feedback getting incorporated.
○ Studying frameworks like OpenID Connect (with grant mgmt), SOLID project, ToIP, GNAP, Open
Banking, TPDMS
○ Implementation strategy, old school scalable REST vs Blockchain.
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with exposure to microservices API, OAuth/OpenID Connect and related security threats.
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Digital Sky
Presenter: Siddharth Ravikumar
● What is Digital Sky?
○ Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management System.
○ Digital platform for scalable programmatic governance of UAV operations, including
registration, ID, permissioning, tracking, traffic management, etc.
○ Aims to enable mass adoption of autonomous drones for civilian and commercial purposes.
● How far along are we?
○ V1 launched in 2018, made it easier to legally fly drones; created detailed airspace maps with
tiered permissioning.
○ V2 in the works; currently exploring risk assessment models and int’l regulatory landscape
● What kind of technology volunteers are we looking for?
○ Volunteers with a technical background in drone hardware, software, aerodynamics, etc.,
but generalist software engineers and drone tech enthusiasts welcome.

20. Thanks!
If interested, please fill out the form at https://volunteers.ispirt.in/
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