Trinidad and Tobago inks pact for sharing Indian technology stack

Trinidad and Tobago has signed an settlement with the Indian authorities for sharing the India Stack, which is a group of open utility programming interfaces and digital public items for id, knowledge and fee providers. The settlement was signed within the presence of officers from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), National E-Governance Division, and the Ministry of External Affairs, in response to an official launch. The two nations agreed to cooperate for digital transformation by way of capability constructing, coaching programmes, alternate of finest practices, alternate of information between public officers and specialists, growth of pilot or demo options.

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated, “With the help of India Stack, these countries can climb up the digitalisation ladder rapidly and transform their economies and governance.”

It shall create a strong ecosystem of startups, builders and system integrators working round it on next-gen innovation, he added.

The collaboration comes after Chandrasekhar met Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Digital Transformation Hassel Bacchus final week and mentioned mutual cooperation in IT, rising applied sciences and India Stack.

India has additionally signed pacts with Armenia, Sierra Leone, Suriname, and Antigua and Barbuda to share India Stack, whereas Mauritius and Saudi Arabia are at a sophisticated stage of finalising cooperation on the identical, the discharge stated.

An identical settlement was signed with Papua New Guinea additionally final month, whereas the UPI — a part of India Stack — has been accepted in France, UAE, Singapore and Sri Lanka, it stated.

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