Arvind Gupta : India Rise as a Digital Power • Stimson Center

Peter Slezkine: Arvind, welcome to the show. Arvind Gupta: Thank you for having me, Peter. It’s nice to take this conversation from conferences to an actual one-on-one conversation, so I’m excited. Peter Slezkine: Absolutely. And this time I’m in Washington and you are in, uh, India, so we’re— Arvind Gupta: New Delhi, yes. Peter Slezkine: New Delhi. Perfect. Yes, it’s good to have two cities, otherwise it’s an imperfect comparison. So next time we’ll record in person to really make this exciting. So you are the co-founder and head of the Digital India Foundation. Can you tell us a little bit about that organization and its place within India’s digital ecosystem? Arvind Gupta: So, Peter, let me give you a background. I have been working on what is the Digital India project since its launch in 2015, pre-launch in 2014. And I spent a considerable number of years in that project. And this is a very unique project, and I will need some minutes to explain to you because it’s the participation of three or four key stakeholders that let this come alive. Of course, the private sector, the businesses, but also, of course, the government. And a lot of…