Digital Revolution vs Global Warming: How Open Networks will Power Climate Solutions with Pramod Varma and Carlos Montes

Open transaction networks are systems that ensure interoperability across various platforms and services. They enable seamless discovery, information exchange, and end-to-end transactions, regardless of the specific apps or services being used. In essence, they replace closed, proprietary platforms with an ecosystem where competition, innovation, and collaboration can thrive.  Pramod Varma will explore how these new technologies can support network approach solutions to the multi-faceted problems of climate change, dramatically reducing the cost of coordination.

Want to find out more about open transaction networks and whether they are the hidden key to growth and prosperity, check out this Bennett Institute piece by Carlos Montes.

Pramod Varma was the chief architect of India’s digital transformation (universal digital ID, instant phone-based payment system UPI, open transaction networks, etc.). He is currently Chief Technology Officer at the EkStep foundation and co-founder of the Foundation of Interoperability of the Digital Economy.  Pramod is one of the world's leading technologists in developing and implementing digital technologies that aim to provide benefits for all citizens. 

Carlos Montes is the Lead for the Innovation Hub for Prosperity, CIGB, Cambridge Judge Business School.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Innovation Hub for Prosperity (CIGB, Cambridge Judge Business School) and the Cambridge climaTRACES Lab.

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