Our courses demonstrate how DPI should be designed, built and governed responsibly. Aimed at key decision makers across the public and private sectors, these courses are conducted by leading experts in the field.

We collaborate with administrative training academies and private institutions in India to teach a wide range of courses on DPI.

“DPI does not require deep pockets. It requires deep commitment.”

— Nandan Nilekani

Our Model

Building Capacities for Effective Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

Implementing Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is a complex challenge. High-level commitment is essential to embarking on the DPI journey, and success depends on strong leadership across political, technical, and administrative domains. These leadership layers are critical for the conceptualisation, design, development, deployment, and regulation of DPI at scale.

At the DPI Academy, we are dedicated to building the necessary capacities for responsible DPI implementation and governance. We offer pro-bono courses that focus on developing skills at three key levels: policymakers, domain experts and technologists. DPI is not a typical IT project—it requires alignment on vision, architecture, governance models, and business strategies, as well as strong consensus-building among all stakeholders.

Collaborative Learning for Key Decision-Makers

Our courses will be designed in collaboration with a range of public and private partners, including administrative training academies and leading academic institutions. We specifically target civil servants and administrative officers who are integral to shaping DPI initiatives within government and the broader ecosystem. By equipping these decision-makers with the knowledge and tools to navigate the complexities of DPI, we aim to foster effective and sustainable digital transformations.

Explore Our Range of Courses

  • Shaping the Future with DPI

    Duration: 3-4 hours

    Sessions: Approximately 2-3 sessions

    Target Audience: Senior civil servants at Central and state governments

    This is a half-day course designed for leadership and policymakers that discusses the importance of DPI for sustainable development. Through this course, policy-makers would appreciate how DPI could be used in their Ministry/ Department and develop the confidence to sponsor a DPI-based initiative or reform. This course would highlight the policies, laws, resources and mandates, and governance frameworks that need to be in place to reduce DPI-related privacy and security risks and mechanisms for grievance redressal across the DPI lifecycle.

  • DPI-led Digital Transformation

    Duration: 1 day

    Sessions: Approximately 3-4 sessions

    Target Audience: Mid-career senior civil servants and other program leaders

    This one-day course covers the essentials of designing and implementing a DPI. It focuses on the key skills needed for implementing the DPI, including technology management, architecture, and program management. This course would provide an understanding of the importance of DPI and what it takes to plan and implement the DPI in national and sectoral digital transformation strategies.

  • Architecting DPI

    Duration: 3 days (extensible to 5 days by including field visit and problem-solving)

    Sessions: Approximately 10-15 sessions

    Target Audience: Senior IT professionals within government and in organisations that provide IT services to government (e.g. CTO, System Integrators, Tech Strategy Advisor)

    This 3-day course will explore the principles of DPI design, architectural decisions, and the technical aspects of extension, customisation, data management, maintenance and governance. The goal of the course is to equip technical implementers—both internal and external consultants—with a strong understanding of core DPI principles, design options, and architectural considerations. This will enable them to assess the suitability and potential implementation of the DPI approach for various sectors or use cases.

Past Course Deliveries

  • DPI in an Urban Context | Indian Institute of Public Administration

    This course aimed to train civil servants on the use of DPI in an urban setting. It covered the opportunities and challenges in Urban governance, the ‘Urban Stack’ or the DPI enables Urban e-governance ecosystem, critical success factors involved in making DPI work for cities and touches upon existing initiatives like the National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) and UPYOG.

  • The 'What', 'Why' and 'How' of DPI | Gopabandhu Academy of Administration, Odisha

    The sessions explained the key principles and concepts of DPI, and demonstrate how the DPI approach can address governance challenges and drive digital transformation. They will cover the principles of DPI and their application through a 'think-learn-do' approach.

  • Solve the DPI way | Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation

    The session covered the basics of what is Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for digital transformation, the importance of DPI, how DPI is actually implemented and with the help of a use case on 'solving for a waste management problem', and how a DPI in India is implemented.