Guest Post | How India created a digital blueprint for the economies of the future

Authors’ preface: We have always been drawn to bold, ambitious ideas that aim to leverage technology to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, we were inexorably sucked in by the gravity of cryptocurrencies and blockchains in 2013, and the exciting potential of the creator economy in 2020. The only other idea to have a similarly profound effect on us was India Stack – the remarkable project that represents the beating heart of this essay. Due to serendipity, or perhaps persistence, we have been fortunate enough to get a front row seat to this incredible spectacle unfolding in India. Over the past eighteen months, both of us have spent time volunteering with iSPIRT, the non-profit think tank that has played a leading role in catalyzing the technological sea change described in the paragraphs below. For more about the authors, see the post-script at the bottom of the page. And with that, our story begins.