India’s digital infrastructure has reached its next test

India’s most important AI problem may have nothing to do with AI. It may be that its institutions still do not speak the same digital language. That may sound like an administrative inconvenience but it’s becoming a technological constraint.

Over the past decade, India has built some of the world’s most ambitious digital public infrastructure (DPI). Aadhaar created a digital identity layer. UPI changed payments. DigiLocker made credentials portable. New systems are emerging for health, agriculture, commerce and education.