Should we ask for Free Software app for UPI?
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@Dhanesh B. Sabane shared a news [1] about the need of platforms like UPI in our matrix group at #fsci:poddery.com in the context of foreign companies like Amazon controlling online trading platforms.
@Akshay shared this paper by Sunil Abraham on UPI and NPCI.
https://www.orfonline.org/research/unified-payment-interface/
We could possibly ask ICFOSS or Kerala Bank (both institutions under Kerala Government which has a policy to support Free Software) to launch a Free Software application for UPI. Though we should first evaluate if the concerns around monopoly an surveillance is important enough to not bother about UPI.
[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/digital-india-trai-amazon-6522105/
Abhijith PA Mon 19 Sep 2022 1:37PM
That's a great news. !!
Life is Tetris Wed 20 Dec 2023 1:19PM
It has been a while now since I dropped off the Telegram chat. Is the situation changed with the open-sourcing of UPI et al? https://dpi.global
Abhijith PA Thu 21 Dec 2023 4:34AM
Hi.
If you read the history of this thread, you can understand there is an attempt going https://github.com/librefin-in
Not sure how it is progressing.
Nemo · Sat 6 Aug 2022 7:28AM
I recently announced a community-initiative to get us to an open-source UPI app. It's called LibreFin, and you can check it out at https://github.com/librefin-in.
You can also join on Gitter/Matrix: https://gitter.im/librefin-in/community, or on Telegram: https://t.me/librefin
The GitHub page has some details around the planned roadmap, which I presented at the IndiaFOSS2.0 conference a few weeks ago. (Talk will be published in a while).
@Pirate Bady There's a roadmap in place for USSD based app as well.