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India Expands Global Digital Cooperation, Signs DPI Agreements with 24 Countries
Building on India Stack’s recognition in the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration, India signs MoUs with 24 countries to deploy population-scale DPI solutions including DigiLocker, e-Sanjeevani and UPI — accelerating digital transformation across the Global South.
Published: 03 August 2026 Source: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
India's Global DPI Partnerships — Key Figures
24 Countries
MoUs Signed for DPI Adoption
Across Asia, Africa, Americas and beyond
10 Countries
UPI Connected Payment Systems
Cross-border digital payments enabled
Kenya + Cuba
DigiLocker Live Deployments
Kenya IFA signed; Cuba under development
SIF Approved
Social Impact Fund for LMICs
Financial and technical assistance for DPI pilots
Overview
The Government of India has taken a major step in its global digital diplomacy by signing Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with 24 countries to facilitate the adoption of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) solutions. These partnerships are designed to support partner governments in accelerating their own digital transformation journeys by leveraging India’s proven, population-scale digital governance platforms — collectively known as India Stack — which were formally recognised in the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration (2023) as a global model for inclusive and scalable digital public infrastructure.
The cooperation framework encompasses capacity building, technical assistance, knowledge sharing, feasibility assessments and the guided deployment of flagship DPI platforms including DigiLocker (secure digital document management), e-Sanjeevani (telemedicine), e-Office (digital government workflows) and e-Hospital (digital healthcare administration). India has conducted technical workshops, virtual consultations and institutional study visits with partner nations to share implementation expertise and operational knowledge developed over a decade of domestic deployment at scale.
Two countries have already advanced to implementation stages: an Implementation Framework Agreement and Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) have been formally signed with Kenya for DigiLocker deployment, while Cuba has commenced development of a foundational DigiLocker platform. Simultaneously, UPI has been connected with payment systems in 10 countries, enabling real-time cross-border digital payments that support both diaspora remittances and commercial transactions at significantly lower costs than traditional channels.
India's Flagship DPI Platforms Being Shared Globally
DigiLocker
A secure, cloud-based digital document wallet that enables citizens to store, access and share government-issued documents electronically. DigiLocker eliminates the need for physical document submission, reducing bureaucratic friction and enabling instant verification across government and private sector services.
🌍 Live Deployments: Kenya (IFA signed) | Cuba (under development)
e-Sanjeevani
India’s nationally deployed telemedicine platform enabling doctor-patient consultations over digital channels. e-Sanjeevani has facilitated hundreds of millions of teleconsultations in India and offers a proven, scalable model for extending healthcare access to remote and underserved populations in partner countries.
🏥 Proven at Scale: 300+ million teleconsultations in India
e-Office
A digital workplace platform for government offices that digitises file management, approvals, correspondence and inter-departmental communication. e-Office reduces paper usage, accelerates decision timelines and creates transparent, auditable digital governance workflows adaptable to different governmental structures.
🏛️ Application: Digital Government Workflow Modernisation
e-Hospital
An integrated hospital management information system covering patient registration, outpatient and inpatient management, laboratory, pharmacy and billing functions. e-Hospital enables public health facilities in partner countries to transition from manual administration to fully digital healthcare delivery management.
🏥 Application: Public Hospital Digital Administration
💳 UPI Goes Global — Cross-Border Digital Payments in 10 Countries
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) — the world’s most widely used real-time digital payments system — has been connected with payment networks in 10 countries, enabling instant, low-cost cross-border transactions for individuals and businesses. UPI’s global connectivity represents a major advancement in international financial inclusion, reducing reliance on costly traditional remittance channels and enabling real-time settlement across borders.
UPI’s global payment connections span countries including:
Key Institutions Driving DPI International Cooperation
India’s DPI international cooperation is delivered through a coordinated ecosystem of specialist digital institutions, each contributing domain expertise and implementation capacity to the partnership programmes:
UIDAI
Unique Identification Authority of India — shares expertise in biometric identity systems and the Aadhaar foundational ID architecture.
NeGD
National e-Governance Division — provides e-governance platform expertise including DigiLocker, e-Office and other digital governance solutions for partner country deployments.
NPCI
National Payments Corporation of India — drives UPI’s international expansion, connecting India’s real-time payments infrastructure with payment systems in partner countries globally.
NIC — National Informatics Centre
Provides government IT infrastructure, cloud services and technology architecture expertise to support digital governance deployments including e-Hospital, e-Office and other government platforms in partner countries.
C-DAC — Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Contributes advanced computing, AI and software development capabilities to DPI cooperation programmes, supporting localisation, customisation and technical adaptation of Indian platforms for partner country requirements.
💰 Social Impact Fund — Accelerating DPI in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Government has approved the establishment of a Social Impact Fund (SIF) specifically designed to accelerate Digital Public Infrastructure adoption across Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The fund will provide both financial and technical assistance to support DPI pilot projects in partner countries that may lack the fiscal capacity to independently fund initial implementation costs.
🎓 ITEC Programme — DPI Training for Partner Countries
Under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme, the Government has provided specialised Digital Public Infrastructure training to officials from partner countries. These training programmes — delivered both in India and virtually — equip participants with the technical knowledge, policy frameworks and implementation experience required to successfully deploy and manage DPI solutions in their home countries. The ITEC programme serves as a critical human capital dimension of India’s digital cooperation strategy, ensuring that technology transfers are supported by the institutional capacity to sustain and expand deployments independently over time.
Expected Impact of India's DPI Cooperation Programme
- Accelerated digital transformation in 24 partner countries through proven, scalable DPI solutions
- Enhanced financial inclusion through interoperable digital identity and payment platforms
- Stronger institutional cooperation in digital governance between India and partner governments
- Expanded global footprint for India's DPI ecosystem as an internationally adopted standard
- Lower-cost, real-time cross-border digital payments through UPI connectivity in 10 countries
- Improved public service delivery efficiency through digital healthcare, administration and document systems
- Growing Indian influence in shaping global digital governance standards and frameworks
- New commercial opportunities for Indian technology companies in global DPI implementation markets
Why This Development Matters
India’s DPI model — encompassing digital identity (Aadhaar), digital payments (UPI), document management (DigiLocker), telemedicine (e-Sanjeevani) and data consent management (Account Aggregator) — has demonstrated at unprecedented scale that digital public infrastructure can be both transformative and inclusive. India’s Aadhaar system has enrolled over 1.4 billion people; UPI processes over 500 million transactions daily; DigiLocker holds billions of documents. These are not laboratory successes — they are operational systems delivering measurable improvements in governance efficiency, financial inclusion and service delivery to populations at scale.
For the global development community, India’s DPI cooperation initiative offers something of profound value: a proven, open-source-oriented, population-scale digital governance framework built by and for a developing economy, available for adaptation by other countries at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives. For many countries in the Global South — particularly those with limited fiscal capacity and high proportions of unbanked or undocumented citizens — India’s DPI stack represents the most practical pathway to rapid digital inclusion.
From India’s perspective, the DPI cooperation programme serves multiple strategic interests simultaneously. It strengthens bilateral relationships through a non-transactional form of cooperation. It builds India’s influence in shaping the emerging global architecture for digital governance. It creates commercial pathways for Indian technology companies as implementation partners in partner countries. And it establishes India’s DPI platforms as the de facto standards in key partner markets — creating long-term technology ecosystem lock-in that benefits India’s digital economy actors over the medium and long term.
Source: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. Information pertains to India’s Digital Public Infrastructure international cooperation programme including MoUs signed with 24 countries, the Social Impact Fund, ITEC-based DPI training, DigiLocker deployments in Kenya and Cuba, and UPI’s connectivity with 10 countries’ payment systems.
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