France likes its payment system, Saudi Arabia is close to co-operating, and the Caribbean is calling
India’s government has announced that the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to share India Stack, making it the latest territory to adopt the collection of digital public goods the world’s most populous nation has created as a means to assist development of government digital services (and its own diplomacy) around the world.
India Stack is based on the payment, identity, and data services India developed to power its own citizen-facing services. India’s population recently topped 1.4 billion, meaning India Stack is proven to operate at a scale that can meet the needs of any other nation. India Stack also powers impressive services: the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has brought electronic payments and banking services to even the country’s smallest merchants.
