The CTO of Digital India Corporation, Debabrata Nayak, has seen India’s digital journey endto end: from digitizing land records in Naxal-affected districts in the 1990s to nationalplatforms like DigiLocker, UMANG, API Setu and leading CoWin during the pandemic. Hisnext goal is applying AI to citizen services at scale.

Debabrata Nayak, Chief Technology Officer of Digital India Corporation, began hisgovernment career in 1994 in a Naxal-affected district. Electricity was scarce, offices ran onpunch machines and registers, and computers were just beginning to arrive. Manyemployees feared they would lose their jobs to automation. “At that time, people thoughtcomputerization would vanish their jobs, the same way people talk about AI today,” herecalls.

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