India Stack in Practice

This 13-day immersive policy and systems lab examines digital governance through real-world infrastructure.

Students begin in Bengaluru with analytic grounding in DPI architecture, interoperability frameworks, and service blueprinting methodologies. Seminars explore identity systems, payment rails, data exchange layers, and mission-mode digital governance.

Field visits to digital service ecosystems and civic-tech nodes provide insight into how platforms operate at the interface between citizen, frontline staff, and administrator. Stakeholder interviews capture lived experience and implementation constraints.

In Hyderabad, students conduct a GovTech sprint — prototyping assisted-digital service flows and stress-testing privacy safeguards. Ethics clinics interrogate consent architecture, cybersecurity risks, grievance redress systems, and trust-building mechanisms.

The Delhi phase shifts to policy scale: Digital India mission design, regulatory architecture, and institutional accountability. Students complete a faculty-gradeable inclusion audit and redesign memo.

Students will:

Map dependencies across identity, payments, and registry systems.
Conduct structured inclusion audits identifying exclusion errors and friction points.
Apply UX and behavioral design principles to public service workflows.
Evaluate privacy, cybersecurity, and grievance redress mechanisms.
Translate platform analysis into actionable redesign proposals grounded in institutional realism.

Public Administration

Information Systems

Data Science

Law

Political Science

Development Studies

Behavioral Science

Cybersecurity

Innovation Studies

Bengaluru

Hyderabad

Delhi

Day	Location	Academic Engagement	Learning Emphasis
1	Bengaluru	Arrival; seminar: DPI as digital statecraft; program framing	Shared analytic framework
2-3	Bengaluru	Methods lab: service blueprinting, inclusion audit templates, user-journey mapping	Toolkit development
4	Bengaluru	Platform seminar: India Stack architecture & interoperability	Systems design literacy
5	Bengaluru	Field visit: digital service ecosystem; stakeholder interviews	Lived experience
6	Bengaluru	Data governance seminar; privacy-by-design workshop	Responsible governance
7	Hyderabad	GovTech sprint launch; assisted-digital flow prototyping	Design intervention
8	Hyderabad	Ethics clinic: consent, cybersecurity, grievance redress	Accountability structures
9	Hyderabad	Iteration lab; stakeholder feedback integration	Refinement
10	Delhi	Seminar: Digital India & mission-mode scale	Institutional context
11	Delhi	Policy studio: regulatory design & comparative governance	Accountability analysis
12	Delhi	Output lab: inclusion audit report + redesign memo	Faculty-gradeable deliverable
13	Delhi	Presentations; departures	Closure