Digital Public Infrastructure should be the mantra for Global South: CV Madhukar, CEO, Co-Develop

Madhukar spoke to indianexpress.com on the challenges in building DPI, the requirements of safeguarding equity and privacy in the digital transformation efforts of countries, and more.

CV Madhukar is the CEO of Co-Develop, a global non-profit fund that helps countries build digital solutions that leverage a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) approach to make digitisation affordable, safe and equitable.

Co-Develop seeks to unlock bottlenecks in the adoption of DPI approach, curating investible projects, making strategic financial grants, and building an evidence base to understand the impact of DPI. It proposes to help deploy DPI-based projects in 50 countries in the next five years. It also looks to provide pilot grants to organisation