About Us – CDPI

Who We Are

Our Mission

Catalyse countries’ digitisation journeys with high impact DPI to drive inclusive, innovative, and competitive national growth

Our Vision

Help impact the lives of 1 billion people through well-designed population scale infrastructure.

Our Values

Impact
Driven

Every life matters. We focus on real needs to create solutions that make a difference.

Belief in
Change

We believe in the power of exponential change. Small, incremental improvements can drive significant impact.

Transparency
and Honesty

We believe in being honest and transparent. Transparency builds trust and fosters collaboration.

High
Agency

We take initiative and ownership. We are a do-ers, finding new ways and methods to drive progress.

Openness
and Kindness

We believe in staying kind and open, even in challenging situations. We rise above doubts and mistrust.

Resilience
and Patience

We drive actions impatiently but be patient with results. Large-scale change takes time.

The Team

Pramod Varma

Co-Chair, CDPI

Ex Chief Architect, Aadhaar, UPI & India Stack

Dr. Debabrata Das

Chair, Executive Board

Professor Rajagopalan

Chair, CDPI

President, Modular Open Source Identity Platform

Kamya Chandra

Chief Strategy Officer, CDPI

DPI Advisor to India’s Ministry of Finance

Vijay Vujjini

CTO, CDPI

Chief Architect, G2P Connect

Tanushka Vaid

Senior Program Officer

Emmanuel Khisa

Africa Director, CDPI

Manuel Aguilera

Regional Lead, Latin America & Carribean

Lina Hadboun

Co-Lead, West Africa and Country Operations Officer

Anusree Jayakrishnan

Tech Architect: Finance, Data and Health

Samantha Quinter

Operations Associate Africa

Daniel Abadie

Senior Technical Advisor and Former Head of Digital Government, Argentina

Engagement Pillars

CDPI has three pillars of engagement to help countries effectively design, build, and sustain their DPI

Country Engagement

CDPI provides pro bono advisory services for countries building DPI, supporting both new implementations and upgrades to existing systems. This helps address population-scale challenges and promotes equitable, sustainable national growth in line with global best practices.

Shaping the Advisory & Builder Ecosystem

CDPI mobilizes a diverse ecosystem to support countries in their DPI journeys. It organizes workshops, shapes conference content, provides pro bono consultations, supports developmental organizations, and creates specialized training for key stakeholders.

DPI as a packaged Solution (DaaS):

DaaS combines top open-source DPGs with pre-trained technology service providers to create ready-to-deploy DPI packages for pilots. It includes program and policy guidance to reduce deployment time, allowing countries to quickly test pilot projects using a pre-built package.

Reusable DPI Content and Specifications

Implementation-focused, globally reusable artefacts and articles on how to build DPI for key sectors including verifiable identity, use cases of identity and consented data sharing at population scale. CDPI creates and disseminates insightful, actionable guidance; technical blueprints; and toolkits in consultation with various agencies on designing, building and scaling DPI across sectors to encourage efficient global adoption in line with best practices.

Some of Our Outputs

Creating Value for Taxpayers

Successful Design of Open Finance: Lessons from India and Brazil

Coalitions

50-in-5

How We Work

Talking

No legal paperwork required
Virtual meetings

Co-Creating

MoU / Letter of Intent
Tech Architecture Strategy doc

Acting

Published standards/ specs

Testimonials

When the student was ready (us in Zambia) the teacher showed up (CDPI)

Luke Mate

Director, Systems Development and Support

Smart Zambia Institute

CDPI has opened our eyes to a different design thinking through DPI that will help us in rolling out UG Pass

Brenda Uwije

Project Manager and System Analyst

National Information Technology Authority - Uganda (NITA-U)