Sharad Sharma

Sharad Sharma

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Sharad's mantra is to lead big and small companies through orbit change. He has three…

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  • The Next Google, Made in India
    Feb 18, 2015

    The Next Google, Made in India

    Here’s how India’s “Product Nation” ambition be achieved and what the Budget can do for that ambition If you look at…

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  • Baby steps to an Indian Microsoft
    Jan 25, 2015

    Baby steps to an Indian Microsoft

    A country well known for its software services now has an opportunity to build world-beating software products. At a…

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  • Reimagining India’s Health System: Technology Levers for Universal Health Care

    Journal of the Indian Institute of Science

    Just as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the inadequacies of our current health systems and rekindled the debate around universal health care, the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System was launched in late 2020. As a part of the commission, we articulated how technology can enable universal health care. We begin by stating the foundational values—a set of normative statements—that should underpin the use of technology in our health systems. Then, after summarising…

    Just as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the inadequacies of our current health systems and rekindled the debate around universal health care, the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System was launched in late 2020. As a part of the commission, we articulated how technology can enable universal health care. We begin by stating the foundational values—a set of normative statements—that should underpin the use of technology in our health systems. Then, after summarising the paradigm shifts necessary to achieve citizen-centred universal health care, we articulate five ‘technology levers’ to enable those shifts. Finally, we describe the intersections and synergies between technology and the other pillars of health systems, namely, human resources, financing, governance and citizens’ engagement.

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  • The design of a data governance system

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    Throughout history, consumers and businesses have generated data through their everyday choices. These data could relate, inter alia, to doctor’s visits, purchases and sales of goods, or financial transactions. Traditionally, this information was paper-based and resided with the entities that engaged in these transactions (doctors, merchants and financial service providers).
    Technological developments over the last two decades have led to an explosion in the availability of data and their…

    Throughout history, consumers and businesses have generated data through their everyday choices. These data could relate, inter alia, to doctor’s visits, purchases and sales of goods, or financial transactions. Traditionally, this information was paper-based and resided with the entities that engaged in these transactions (doctors, merchants and financial service providers).
    Technological developments over the last two decades have led to an explosion in the availability of data and their processing. The combination of the increased availability of data and inexpensive storage has provided the foundations for high-performance computation. It has also enabled the harnessing of very large amounts of consumer data–often referred to as “big data”–into a valuable commodity. In such a setting, the key questions are who has control over these data, where it is stored, with whom and under what conditions it is shared, and who operates the data governance system.

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  • The Design of Digital Financial Infrastructure: Lessons from India

    BIS Paper

    Digital finance has the potential to transform emerging market and advanced economies alike. India's approach rests on the principle of providing digital financial infrastructure as a public good. It offers an important case study where the results are relevant and applicable for all economies, irrespective of their stage of development. The provision of a national digital biometric identity to all residents has effectively granted them broad access to the banking system. The development of a…

    Digital finance has the potential to transform emerging market and advanced economies alike. India's approach rests on the principle of providing digital financial infrastructure as a public good. It offers an important case study where the results are relevant and applicable for all economies, irrespective of their stage of development. The provision of a national digital biometric identity to all residents has effectively granted them broad access to the banking system. The development of a real-time payment system platform has brought efficiencies to retail customers and small-scale transactions. By providing cheap and instantaneous payment services to ordinary citizens, the design of the Indian payment system challenges the business case for standalone private payment systems. The establishment of a legal framework for data fiduciaries promises to ensure that individuals can readily access the data generated by their online activity and dictate the circumstances for sharing those data.

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  • Internet Predictions

    IEEE Internet Computing

    More than a dozen leading experts give their opinions on where the Internet is headed and where it will be in the next decade in terms of technology, policy, and applications. They cover topics ranging from the Internet of Things to climate change to the digital storage of the future.

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  • Making global software development work

    IEEE Software

  • Point/Counterpoint

    IEEE Software

    Has global software development become a competitive necessity or do the management burdens outweigh the benefits? Two industry experts argue each side of the question.

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  • Delivering seamless services in open networks using intelligent service mediation

    Bell Labs Technical Journal

    In this era of converged networks, service providers are seeking ways to seamlessly provide a wide spectrum of services and applications that will differentiate them from their competitors and add to their revenue streams. At the same time, new industry initiatives are pushing toward open networks, in which third-party application providers can use application programming interfaces (APIs) such as Parlay, Open Services Architecture (OSA), and Java* APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN*) to access…

    In this era of converged networks, service providers are seeking ways to seamlessly provide a wide spectrum of services and applications that will differentiate them from their competitors and add to their revenue streams. At the same time, new industry initiatives are pushing toward open networks, in which third-party application providers can use application programming interfaces (APIs) such as Parlay, Open Services Architecture (OSA), and Java* APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN*) to access network services. One challenge for network operators is to attract and engage third-party application providers while protecting the network from harm. We propose using intelligent service mediation to enable operators to open their networks safely through policy management techniques and to reduce the complexity involved in delivering applications developed by third parties over public switched and mobile networks. We also describe an implementation of intelligent service mediation.

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Honors & Awards

  • R&D Visionary Award Zinnov 2008

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