Cybercrime DPI for India
Drafting a national cyber trust infrastructure that establishes end-to-end security rails against digital crime, facilitating coordination between law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and citizens.
Projects & Works
A collection of active projects, policy research, and digital public infrastructure initiatives.
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Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Library (Central Library), BHU
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Center for Digital Public Goods (CDPG)
Currently working as a Research Associate at the Center for Digital Public Goods, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Engaging at the intersection of theory and policy execution, Keshav drives the research, documentation, implementation, and advisory phases of various Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods (DPG) initiatives.
Core Domains
My work spans digital public infrastructure, institutional statecraft, and risk analysis in public sector governance.
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Digital Infrastructure
Designing, analysing, and scaling interoperable systems built on open standards to address complex developmental challenges.
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Institutional Governance
Evaluating public oversight mechanisms and the modernising of state capacities.
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Security & Risk Analysis
Assessing trust infrastructures, cyber threat frameworks, and security mechanisms within evolving global networks.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
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Dispatches
Field notes, essays, working observations, and ideas on governance, statecraft, and public systems.
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The State as India’s Largest Data Fiduciary
The State is arguably India's largest and most pervasive ecosystem of Data Fiduciaries. It can lead by example under the DPDP framework.
The State can lead DPDP implementation by establishing a Government Data Fiduciary Standard (GDFS), citizen-facing Personal Data Charters and a Compliance & Audit Matrix (CAM).
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India’s Next-Generation Vetting System
Can the government measure who it trusts?
Towards a standardised, tiered and continuously updated personnel-security framework for India, inspired by systems in the US and UK: eNETRA.
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Active Projects
Hands-on digital architecture, capacity planning, and deployment projects executed with state departments and regulatory bodies.
Publications & Reports
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State of DPI in India 2026
State of DPI in Education — Mapping the Ecosystem, Credentials, and Maturity
Education is fundamentally organised around the learner's lifelong journey rather than a single institution or service provider. This chapter examines India's Education DPI ecosystem through an ecosystem perspective—mapping learners, providers, credentialing bodies, and regulators, analyzing core building blocks in use (APAAR, Academic Bank of Credits, DIKSHA, NDEAR), documenting state-level trajectories across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Bihar, and Gujarat, and evaluating the maturity and road ahead for interoperable learning rails.
"Currently researching the structural scaling models of Digital Public Goods within internal government administration, analyzing how capacity-building frameworks integrate with emerging sovereign trust infrastructures."