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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” These words from Vladimir Lenin have never been so relevant. While the world woke up to the importance of leveraging technology during the pandemic, India has quietly shown the world the power of an inclusive citizen-centric innovation framework. Thanks to the success of Digital India, leadership in this sphere can be our lasting legacy to the world. And as the rules of a new digital world are written, India’s G20 presidency for 2023 will offer us a platform to showcase our success story of ‘best known practices’ that others can learn from.

Over the last 75 years, India has executed many citizen-friendly programmes. Today, over 20 platforms support the Digital India initiative, touching over a billion lives and presenting a $700 billion opportunity for India by 2030. When we quantify its impact, these initiatives cut across every sector from health and agriculture to finance and urban governance. Today, over 775 million Indians have access to broadband services, telemedicine has grown 500%, Co-Win enabled over 2 billion vaccination doses, the Aadhaar ecosystem has scaled to 1.3 billion registrations, and Bhim UPI clocked over 6.28 billion transactions as of July 2022. And this merely scratches the surface of the scale that has been achieved so far.

Each of these platforms offers a story of success on India’s tech inclusivity, innovation, scale and impact. The opportunity ahead of us is to flip the innovation lens to focus on something fundamentally important for all of us but is often forgotten: i.e., leveraging technology to improve human lives. India now has the global gravitas, a growing technology and innovation ecosystem and the intellectual prowess to play its rightful role at the global high table in transforming global innovation and ease of doing business, success factors that has been limited to only a few developed nations so far.

For a digital economy to succeed, it must provide all citizens equal opportunity and access to critical services. India needs to reflect on its strength here: an opportunity to lead the creation of a framework for a citizen-centric digital economy under its G20 presidency. Its design would have to be hardwired on the principles of trust and inclusion, and built by the building blocks of talent, regulation that encourages innovation, digital public infrastructure, a robust datafication strategy and an uncompromising focus on security. India’s sweet spot is its leadership in building inclusive platforms for public goods. The country has firmly led the change through its affordable platform development, priority-based regulatory approvals, data infrastructure, open technology-based adherence platforms and population-scale rollouts.