Category: Digital Systems Design
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Discovery by Design: ONDC and the Future of Being Found
What does discovery mean in an open network? This blog unpacks how ONDC enables buyers and sellers to find each other—across apps, without relying on central platforms. It explores how registries, gateways, and decentralized buyer and seller apps (nodes) work together to make discovery interoperable, inclusive, and infrastructure-led.
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Open Networks: Europe’s Path to Digital Sovereignty
In an increasingly connected yet fragmented world, Europe is at a crossroads. As global digital platforms consolidate control over data, services, and markets, questions of autonomy, resilience, and inclusion are coming to the fore. To address these challenges, Europe must move beyond reactive regulation or isolated investments. It needs a fresh approach to digital infrastructure—one…
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EuroStack: Why Europe’s Digital Stack Needs a Commons Mindset
This post builds on Part 1 of our series on Europe’s digital future, where we explored why open networks are essential to digital sovereignty, resilience, and fair markets. In this follow-up we examine how Europe’s current digital infrastructure measures up—and what it would take to transform it into a coherent, commons-governed system. In recent years, “digital sovereignty” has moved…
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Architecting Soft Power: India’s DPI Story
For much of the 20th century, soft power came from cultural exports—cinema, literature, universities, diplomacy. In the 21st, a new dimension has emerged: digital infrastructure. Today, India’s rising global stature isn’t just about economics (5th largest economy in the world) or geopolitics (a regional counterweight to China, a key voice in forums like the G20…
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Open Networks: Designing for Openness
We often treat “open” as a virtue and “closed” as a flaw. But in digital systems, openness is rarely all or nothing. It’s a spectrum—a set of design choices shaped by context, not ideology. Terms like “open-source”, “open access”, or “open networks” are often used for systems that are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. But a…
SANDEEP MAHAJAN 