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In case you are interested in Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs), I would like to draw your attention to our upcoming webinar dedicated to
<b><i>Digital Public Infrastructure for Payments: Digital Sovereignty, Interoperability and Consumer Protectio</i></b><i>n</i>, which will take place on Thursday, 14 May, from 10:00 to 11:30 BRT (GMT-3).</div>
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Below you can find the webinar agenda and useful links.</div>
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<b>About the event</b></div>
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This webinar explores Digital Public Infrastructure for Payments as a cornerstone of modern digital economies, focusing on its implications for digital sovereignty, interoperability, and consumer protection. The discussion will examine case studies such as
the Brazilian Pix and the Indian UPI, exploring how countries design payment systems that balance state coordination with openness, enabling innovation while safeguarding the public interest. Particular attention will be devoted to cross-border interoperability,
including emerging solutions such as the Interledger Protocol and multi-CBDC bridges, as well as governance frameworks aimed at ensuring data protection, cybersecurity, and user rights. Bringing together policy, technical, and legal perspectives, the session
aims to provide practical insights into the development of inclusive, secure, and globally connected payment infrastructures.</div>
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<b>Co-moderators</b></div>
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Luca Belli, Professor at FGV Law School and Director of CTS-FGV</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
Hannah Draper, CTS-FGV, Lead of Digital Public Infrastructures for Payments</li></ul>
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<b>Speakers</b></div>
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Ajay Kumar Choudhary, National Payments Corporation of India, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and Independent Director</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
Amrita Sengupta, CTS-FGV, CyberBRICS Fellow</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
Breno Lobo, Central Bank of Brazil, Head of the Pix System Management Division and Deputy Head of DECEM</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
Larissa Magalhães, NOVA School of Business and Economics, CTS-FGV CyberBRICS Fellow</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
Anna Sheard, Interledger Foundation, Creative Director</li></ul>
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<b>Registration link (to participate and ask questions during the webinar):</b><br>
<a href="https://evento.fgv.br/digitalinfrastructure1405/" id="OWA50e9c2f7-6edd-1b65-86fa-111efe3c40d3" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://evento.fgv.br/digitalinfrastructure1405/</u></a></div>
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<b>YouTube livestream and recording:</b><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/67jSkD11HY4" id="OWA7cad0675-4cfe-3fe2-91f2-fa42d4df768d" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://www.youtube.com/live/67jSkD11HY4</u></a></div>
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To provide additional background on some of the topics we will discuss during the webinar, below are several recent DPI-related publications developed within the CyberBRICS programme of CTS-FGV:</div>
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Mila Samdub and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, ‘What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity’<br>
<a href="https://cyberbrics.info/what-is-digital-public-infrastructure-towards-more-specificity/" id="OWA5e96d5ea-c7ce-2440-2cce-5cb70496fc5f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://cyberbrics.info/what-is-digital-public-infrastructure-towards-more-specificity/</u></a></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
Hannah Draper, Luca Belli, Larissa Galdino et al., ‘A Consumer-centric Approach to Digital Public Infrastructure for Sustainable Financial Inclusion’ (T20 Brasil, 2024).<br>
<a href="https://www.t20brasil.org/media/documentos/arquivos/TF05_ST_02_A_Consumer-centric66d5d363d0a6f.pdf" id="OWA0cc49947-e4ac-487b-d042-71249be67ec2" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://www.t20brasil.org/media/documentos/arquivos/TF05_ST_02_A_Consumer-centric66d5d363d0a6f.pdf</u></a></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
Luca Belli, ‘Building Good Digital Sovereignty through Digital Public Infrastructures and Digital Commons in India and Brazil’ (T20 India, 11 September 2023).<br>
<a href="https://t20ind.org/research/building-good-digital-sovereignty-through-digital-public-infrastructures/" id="OWAcbfba1c8-09cf-6daa-8c9e-0e4ff799f6fa" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://t20ind.org/research/building-good-digital-sovereignty-through-digital-public-infrastructures/</u></a></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
Venkatesh Hariharan and Sarayu Natarajan, ‘Digital Sovereignty and Payments: A Case Study of the National Payments Corporation of India’ in Min Jiang and Luca Belli (eds),
<i>Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance</i> (Cambridge University Press 2025.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009531085.008" target="_blank" id="OWA981542f2-2ded-5a08-f952-9c6d063b8d7e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">
<u>https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009531085.008</u></a></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
Nicolo Zingales, Smriti Parsheera, Larissa Galdino et al., ‘Standardized Payment Systems as Digital Public Infrastructure: Catalysing Remittances and Cross-border Trade in the Global South’ (T20 Brasil, 2024).<br>
<a href="https://www.t20brasil.org/media/documentos/arquivos/TF05_ST_02__Standardized_payme66e1cb9eac69d.pdf" id="OWA8e225b6b-4352-abe4-0d2d-e8b55fff8e4b" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u>https://www.t20brasil.org/media/documentos/arquivos/TF05_ST_02__Standardized_payme66e1cb9eac69d.pdf</u></a></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
Amrita Sengupta, Alexandre Costa Barbosa and Mila T Samdub, ‘Understanding Interrelationships between AI and Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in India and Brazil’ (2025) 35
<i>The African Journal of Information and Communication</i> 1. <a href="https://doi.org/10.23962/ajic.i35.20800" id="OWAd631e9cf-9a7b-cd89-c3b1-0dc9c1bcd116" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">
<u>https://doi.org/10.23962/ajic.i35.20800</u></a> </li></ol>
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