Panda: Africa, Europe, and APAC will replicate India's UPI framework
Santosh Panda · The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership · Dec 12, 2022 · at 30:04
Santosh Panda, Co-Founder of Foundership, discusses the exportability and global influence of Indian public digital infrastructure.
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“And this, what we see on, saw on the UBI is going to go back to other countries. I'm sure South African countries or some European countries, some APAC going to inherit and say, hey, this worked in India. Let's just copy the framework.”
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