India in Transition HINDI, BANGLA, & TAMIL:
"India as the 'AI Use Case Capital of the World': Socio-Economic Development as AI Hype" by Mila T. Samdub (@bulletprooflama.bsky.social) casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/translat...

While Western AI discourse tends to focus on the mirage of AGI, in India it is sold as a quick fix that will bring 'development' to the masses.

For @casipenn.bsky.social's India in Transition, @bulletprooflama.bsky.social examines the Indian flavour of AI hype: casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/mila-t-s...

While some have narrowed digital public infrastructure to identity-payments-data systems, DPI encompasses a broader range of systems and motivations, as recognized by growing literature and communities of practice. More on this paper by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social

In my latest, I track the genealogy of "digital public infrastructure", showing all that has been excised from the concept to make it convenient for IOs, funders and govts. "Digital public infrastructure" has captured the imagination but it must be reinvigorated if it is to be worth its name.

Finally read the recent "Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty" report. The authors range across several issues to work towards a progressive internationalist digital sovereignty "for people and the planet". But they miss a key fact about power today.

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This is the man who is essentially running the US.

Has maximum governance gone too far? The Indian govt has a dashboard to monitor and improve its performance on global indices. If indices are meta-measurements that collate various other measures, this dashboard is a meta-meta-measurement.

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Is digital public infrastructure like roads, an essential infrastructure that others can build businesses on? Or like radio, which makes an informed citizenry possible and is a backbone of democracy? Smart, thoughtful essay engages with some of my work: www.techpolicy.press/what-is-digi...

🏗️ This opinion by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social and @chandrn.bsky.social brings more clarity to the concept of #DigitalPublicInfrastructure (DPI).

“Multiple visions of DPI are circulating today: DPI-as-roads and DPI-as-radio, as well as other variations...”

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Today, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is often synonymous with the Indian model of digitalization. But DPI can and should encompass a range of approaches. In our new article, @chandrn.bsky.social and I make the case for greater specificity in our conversations about DPI.