India Builds Digital Identity For 1.4 Billion

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 19, French President Emmanuel Macron praised India's nationwide digital infrastructure, noting a digital identity for 1.4 billion people, a payments system processing 20 billion transactions monthly, and 500 million digital health IDs. He highlighted the India Stack open interoperable model and announced strengthened Indo‑French collaboration, including an Indo‑French Centre for AI in Health at AIIMS.