{"id":2915,"date":"2024-04-24T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=2915"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:05:20","slug":"dt-bio-pramod-varma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/dt-bio-pramod-varma\/","title":{"rendered":"Pramod Varma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pramod Varma<\/strong>
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Pramod Varma has been the Chief Architect of most of India\u2019s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) efforts starting with Aadhaar – India\u2019s unique ID system that covers 1.4 Billion people; eSign – an interoperable digital signature protocol; DigiLocker – digital credentialing and wallet system in India which is currently used by 250 million people having nearly 6.5 billion credentials; and UPI – the unified real time payment system that was launched in 2016 currently doing 13.5 Billion transactions a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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He also played a key role in designing and architecting India\u2019s indirect tax (GST) system, digital health infrastructure, and digital education infrastructure including world\u2019s largest school learning platform DIKSHA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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In addition, he co-founded and created Beckn Protocol, an open source protocol effort that helps create decentralized, peer-peer transaction networks. Beckn protocol is the basis for India\u2019s new efforts such as ONDC (decentralized commerce), Namma Yatri (decentralized mobility), and the newly live decentralized energy network (UEI). Beckn Protocol is also being adopted for various efforts in Europe, Brazil, Africa, US, and other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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He is the co-chair at the global Center for DPI (CDPI), and an advisor to many entities and initiatives in India and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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He holds a Master\u2019s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science along with a second Master\u2019s in Applied Mathematics. He is passionate about technology, science, society, and teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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EkStep Foundation<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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