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INPACE Digital Public Infrastructure Hackathon 2025: Bridging EU-Indo-Pacific Digital Cooperation Team Builder Wins Groundbreaking Cross-Border Interoperability Challenge! After three intensive days in Bengaluru, the 2025 Hackathon on Interoperability of Digital Public Infrastructure has concluded with remarkable success! 🥇 WINNER: Team Builder (Vishal Kriplani) for their comprehensive cross-continental data sharing platform 🥈 2nd Place: YourD - EU Global Visa Portal revolutionizing travel verification 🥉 3rd Place: Team Brogrammers (Gouher Danish, Nazish Fraz, Aaqib Gouher) - Digital Product Passport for supply chain transparency 🌍 This pioneering event, aligned with the EU-India Trade and Technology Council framework and EU Digital Partnerships with Japan, Korea, and Singapore, brought together 30+ participants from across the Indo-Pacific region to tackle one of today's most complex digital challenges: seamless cross-border identity verification. The Challenge: Create functional prototypes demonstrating how an EU citizen with a Digital Identity Wallet can securely access data from Indian organizations registered in MOSIP - and vice versa. 💡 Exceptional Jury Expertise Moderated by: Dr. Franck Le Gall, CEO EGM & ETSI TC DATA Vice Chair Expert Jury: Chandra Challagonda, CEO, FIWARE Foundation Suna Akbayir, CEO, Beyond Barcode & Artech Swaminathan Vasanth Rajaraman, VP Platform, IUDX, CDPG, IISc Sivanand Lanka, VP Engineering, MOSIP Technical Support Team: Pierre Gronlier CIO, Gaia-X Thomas Bousselin, Backend Engineer, EGM Aidar Negimatzhanov, Technical Support 🎯 Beyond our top 3, teams delivered groundbreaking solutions: Code Hunter: Blockchain-based education credential verification PAnDPI: Trust-first interoperability fabric for DPIs Quantum Maverick: Cross-border customs clearance automation Secontext: AI-powered DPI enhancement 🤝 Organizational Excellence Co-organized by: INPACE, FIWARE Foundation, CDPG from IISc, with support from Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL) & Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), ENRICH GLOBAL, EGM 📍The hackathon formed Track 1 of India's premier Data for Public Good Symposium 2025, showcasing solutions to government leaders, academia, and industry stakeholders focused on sustainable digital transformation. Event Links: INPACE: https://lnkd.in/dP7Z5qQ7 FIWARE: https://lnkd.in/dsVpA2bQ Data for Public Good: https://lnkd.in/dWdTf5Ki 🚀 These innovative solutions represent the future of EU-Indo-Pacific digital cooperation, demonstrating practical pathways for secure, privacy-preserving cross-border digital identity systems. #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #EUIndiaCooperation #Interoperability #DigitalIdentity #CrossBorderTech #Hackathon2025