UN chief General Antonio Guterres launched digital cooperation and praised India for eliminating disparities and ensuring economic inclusions among its 1.3 billion citizens by implementing revolutionary digital initiatives.

“India Stack” new digital ecosystem, played consequential role by helping the government agencies and entrepreneurs achieve economic inclusion in India was recognised by the UN Secretary General, the 20-member panel, co-chaired by billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates and Alibaba founder Jack Ma in the report which was launched in the month of July last year.

Unique digital infrastructure is utilised by government, businesses, start-ups, and developers to solve India’s rigid and tricky problems towards presence-less, paperless and cashless service delivery through India Stack, which is a suite of Application Programming Interface.

International cooperation is reinforced by mapping the trends in digital technologies, identifying gaps and opportunities.

Digital Cooperation was launched to monitor that how achievements of the Sustainable Development Goals can be achieved by it.

“The India Stack is an example of how a unified, multi-layers software platform with clear standards, provided by public entities, can give government agencies and entrepreneurs the technological building blocks to improve service delivery and develop new business models which promote economic inclusion,” it said.

India’s revolutionary digital initiative to ensure economic inclusion for its population of 1.3 billion was recognised in the report issues by UN.

Other countries and communities will be using customized form of digital cooperation to fulfil the requirements of individual nations, showcasing India’s achievements in financial inclusion by using its own digital platforms.

“What works in one country may not work in another. Rather than try to replicate specific successes, digital cooperation should aim to highlight best practices, standards and principles that can create conditions for local innovations to emerge and grow based on local issues, needs and cultural values,” it said.

“India, for example, has added 300 million bank accounts in three years as new businesses models have been built on the India Stack, a set of government-managed online standards in areas including online payments and digital identity,” the report said.

‘Aadhaar’ was recognised as the India’s unique identity infrastructure by the report which was introduced to the UN members States in front of UN Chief, Minister of Digitalization of Norway and member of the panel Nikolai Astrup.