Hyperscaler Google Cloud and not-for-profit EkStep Foundation on May 30 announced their partnership to accelerate the adoption of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods (DPGs) across different domains and sectors.
“This partnership will leverage Google Cloud’s cutting-edge technology with EkStep’s expertise in building and orchestrating open-source DPG’s & DPI’s, which drive population-scale transformation for the common good,” Google Cloud and EkStep Foundation said in a release.
The partnership will extend to sectors such as education, healthcare, agriculture, finance, climate change, and human development.
As part of the collaboration, Google Cloud will partner with third parties to list their sandbox on the cloud marketplace allowing private players, non-profit organisations, and government agencies to innovate and incubate solutions. This will enable proof of concepts for the creation and enhancement of DPGs and DPIs, and will eventually accelerate DPI deployments.
Shankar Maruwada, co-founder and chief executive officer of EkStep Foundation, said the partnership with Google Cloud will help it share experiences of driving massive societal scale transformation through interconnected and reusable networks of DPGs and DPI.
EkStep and Google Cloud aim to significantly accelerate India’s digital transformation by creating an ecosystem for developing, deploying, and scaling impactful DPG and DPI solutions.