'ADB looking to partner with India on DPIs in its projects'

Asian Development Bank (ADB) intends to partner with India to promote digital public infrastructure (DPI) in its projects to help improve the impact of development projects and bridge the digital divide that has become the new face of inequality, said director-general of strategy, policy and partnerships Tomoyuki Kimura

- Gulveen Aulakh

In an interview ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in New Delhi, Kimura backed the need for reforms of multilateral development banks and financial institutions, noting that ADB had already embarked on reorganizing itself to become Asia Pacific’s climate bank. Edited excerpts:

The World Bank has lauded India’s DPIs. What’s ADB’s view on DPI as a means to augment inclusion, financial and otherwise? Is there a possibility of multilateral institutions like ADB actually adopting infrastructures like DPI?