Digital Public Infrastructure Is Now a Strategic Battleground by Tariq Malik
Digital identity platforms, payment systems, and data exchanges promise more efficient, inclusive, and responsive public services. But in an era of geopolitical rivalry and concentrated digital power, those same systems create strategic dependencies that governments can no longer afford to ignore.
WASHINGTON, DC—Wars once destroyed ports, power grids, and railways. Today, they increasingly target something less visible and far harder to replace: the digital public infrastructure (DPI)—identity platforms, payment systems, and data exchanges—on which modern societies depend.
