Layer: Wednesday

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | August 19, 2026 Theme: L3 — Documents & Data Exchange (DigiLocker, API Setu, eSign) This week, India’s documents and data exchange layer saw three significant developments: Parliament was informed of DigiLocker crossing 72 crore users, SEBI proposed allowing Aadhaar e-sign for overseas investor KYC, and Bharat Taxi became the first non-government platform to formally integrate with DigiLocker, UMANG, and API Setu under a NeGD MoU. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | August 12, 2026 Wednesday marks L3: Documents & Data Exchange in our seven-layer DPI rotation — the layer that powers DigiLocker, API Setu, eSign, and the entire digital document infrastructure that sits between identity (L1) and payments (L2). This week, L3 delivered one of the most significant cross-border DPI expansions in recent memory: DigiLocker going global for international student verification. 1. DigiLocker Goes Global: AAERI Verify Launches for Australian University Admissions The single biggest L3 story this week is the launch of AAERI Verify — a digital platform that integrates DigiLocker to enable instant, source-verified document checks for Indian students applying to Australian universities. Unveiled on August 7 at the AAERI Annual Convention in New Delhi, the platform is a collaboration between the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) under MeitY and the Association of Australian Education Representatives in India (AAERI). ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 29, 2026 L3 — Documents & Data Exchange: DigiLocker, API Setu, eSign This week, India’s document-exchange layer showed unmistakable signs of maturation — not through a single blockbuster announcement, but through the steady accretion of integrations, cross-border pilots, and institutional capacity-building that together signal L3 is moving from infrastructure to indispensable utility. 1. India-UAE DigiLocker Linkage: Cross-Border Document Verification Takes Shape The most significant development this week emerged from diplomatic channels. India and the UAE have agreed to work on integrating DigiLocker with UAE systems to enable seamless authentication of Indian academic degrees and professional qualifications submitted by workers and professionals in the Gulf nation. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 22, 2026 This week’s L3 Deep Dive covers Documents & Data Exchange — the layer that turns India’s digital identity and payment rails into something you can actually use: verified credentials, paperless academic records, and machine-readable data flows between government systems. DigiLocker, NAD, APAAR, e-Sanad, and API Setu form the connective tissue of India Stack, and the past seven days have seen significant activity across these platforms. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 15, 2026 Layer L3: Documents & Data Exchange — DigiLocker, API Setu, Entity Locker, eSign, and the national data-sharing infrastructure that connects India’s digital governance stack. 1. Bharat Health Terminology Service (BHTS) Launch — India Finally Speaks One Medical Language On July 6, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched the Bharat Health Terminology Service (BHTS) and the Common Lab Codes for India (CLCI) — two platforms developed by the National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS) at C-DAC Pune, under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) framework. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 01, 2026 L3: Documents & Data Exchange — DigiLocker, API Setu, eSign, CKYC India’s Digital Public Infrastructure completed 11 years on July 1, 2026. The Digital India programme, launched on this day in 2015 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), has evolved from a connectivity mission into what the government calls a “frontier-technology mission” anchored in AI and semiconductors. But beneath the AI hype, the workhorse layer that makes everything else function is L3 — Documents & Data Exchange. This week’s deep dive examines the seismic shifts underway in how India stores, verifies, and exchanges digital documents and credentials. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 24, 2026 India’s L3 DPI layer — Documents & Data Exchange — had a blockbuster week (June 17–24, 2026). From state-level Family IDs going digital to 68 electricity DISCOMs joining DigiLocker, and a high-profile global spotlight at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, the infrastructure that powers paperless governance is expanding at an unprecedented clip. 1. Mahasarathi (Family ID) Lands on DigiLocker — 14 Crore Maharashtra Residents Get Digital Access In what is arguably the most significant L3 development this week, the Government of Maharashtra’s Mahasarathi (Family ID) credential was officially integrated with DigiLocker on June 17. The announcement came via a PIB release from Mumbai, confirming that residents across the state can now access their Family ID — a consolidated household credential — directly through India’s flagship digital document wallet. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 17, 2026 India’s L3 layer — Documents & Data Exchange — had a particularly eventful week. From a nationwide scramble to meet the UGC’s June 30 academic record upload deadline on NAD-DigiLocker, to the opening of Census 2027’s self-enumeration portal, to India’s prominent role at UNESCAP’s Paperless Trade Week, the building blocks of paperless governance and cross-border data interoperability are accelerating simultaneously. Here’s a deep dive into the five most significant developments. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 10, 2026 Layer L3 — Documents & Data Exchange | DigiLocker · API Setu · eSign · NAD · National Government Cloud This week on the L3 Documents & Data Exchange layer, India continued to push deeper integration of its digital document infrastructure across education, postal services, governance, and legal-tech. The underlying theme: moving from standalone document digitisation to a connected, cloud-native, API-first data exchange ecosystem. Here are the five most significant developments from June 3–9, 2026. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 03, 2026 India’s L3 Digital Public Infrastructure — the layer of Documents and Data Exchange — had an eventful week (May 28 – June 3, 2026). From DigiLocker powering university admissions at scale to ABHA crossing 90 crore accounts, and new UPI security mandates that reshape data-sharing in payments, the document and data exchange rails underpinning India Stack continue to deepen their reach. Here are the five stories that defined the week. ...