Digital Transactions in India: Platforms, Markets and Users
Duration:
August 2019–December 2020
Funding source:
Australia-India Council Grant Round
AIC2019073
The focus of this project is the centrality of digital payment systems to the growth of India's platform economy, and to the larger deveopment vision of Digital India. This project therefore aims to facilitate knowledge exchange across different stakeholders in India's FinTech sector and their Australian counterparts. It intends to foster collaboration across commerce, information technology and social sciences in academia, and to facilitate bilateral relationships in industry. It seeks to achieve these aims through:
- collaboration between leading research institutions in India and Australia on policy recommendations
- workshops facilitating dialogue between FinTech companies and academic experts
- establishing a research agenda that accounts for the social and cultural situation of digital transactions in India, and
- exchanges of academic and industry personnel between the two countries.
All these aspects of the project will be represented in a series of public engagement events in India and Australia over 2019/2020.
Project members
- Associate Professor Adrian Athique Mabbott Athique, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Chief Investigator)
- Prof Shishir Kumar Jha, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Chief Investigator)
- A/Prof Anush Kapadia, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Chief Investigator)
- Prof Ramaswami R Harindranath, University of New South Wales (Chief Investigator)
