Challenges and opportunities with FOSS in Government
summary
Government already runs major FOSS systems — Aadhaar (billion+ people, millions of auths daily), UPI, CoWIN (about 2 billion doses issued, 25 million peak day), Diksha, DigiLocker — and MeitY’s OpenForge hosts 1988 projects while api.gov.in exposes 1000+ government APIs and data.gov.in lists ~500,000 datasets. Key wins are scale and interoperability; key gaps are low contribution back to communities, procurement rules that favor incumbents, cultural resistance and capacity shortfalls, and lack of monitoring or a national open source program office. Roadmap centers on policy enforcement, reuse across states, and making India Stack ready for global adoption.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:33Misconceptions
- 3:32Projects running on FOSS
- 5:10Adhaar
- 5:34GST
- 6:45Challenges
- 8:57Why FOSS
- 9:58Open API Policy
- 12:02OpenForgegov
- 13:07Reuse of code
- 14:14Policy push
- 16:57Missions
- 17:17Question
- 22:12Data Open Data
- 25:58Procurement
- 28:01Implementation
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