Trishal Kumar
Trishal is a government and public services consultant. He works with central and state governments in India to engage with the private space industry, and also develops and manages geospatial solutions.
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Digital public infrastructure (DPI) have been a recently coined term for a framework for digitally delivering delivering public services. Characterized by 3 core tenets: open data, open standards and open source software, it has already found governments across the world interested in adopting solutions for identity management, financial transactions and e-commerce. Through our research paper, we explore how these principles can be applied to disseminate data and insights collected by remote sensing and geosciences departments and how they can inform climate action strategies, such as the formulation of heat action plans. The paper highlights the current problems in the ecosystem collecting, processing and distributing this data in India today, formulates design principles that can help mitigate these challenges, and proposes the way forward.