eGov Foundation
Viraj Tyagi is an accomplished business leader with extensive experience in technology and finance. Currently, Viraj serves as the CEO of eGov Foundation since August 2016, focusing on transforming city-citizen interactions through innovative open source technology. As a Co-Founder of Finnable Credit Pvt Ltd since November 2017, Viraj works toward providing affordable credit to new customers using advanced technology and analytics. Additionally, Viraj holds several board positions including Board Member at Sportz Village and WorldArtCommunity.com, and Non Executive Director at Spire Technologies. Previous roles include Business Head for Credit Cards at Standard Chartered Bank, Head of Products and Distribution at Halifax Bank of Scotland, and Director of UK Credit Cards & Loans at American Express UK. Viraj's educational background includes an MBA in Marketing & Finance from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University).
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eGov Foundation
Established in 2003 by Nandan Nilekani and Srikanth Nadhamuni , eGov Foundation is a philanthropic mission that exists to improve the ease of living for citizens. Our focus areas are urban, health, sanitation and public finance management. Our mission is to make sure that everyone can access services from their local governments with ease and transparency. We do this through our core offering DIGIT (Digital Infrastructure for Governance, Impact and Transformation), which is a digital public good. In other words, it is an open, interoperable free-to-use platform that offers solutions for citizens, first mile employees, administrators, commercial players and policy makers. It is made available to the federal government, states & cities for them to create programs and solutions for their contexts, in keeping with the federal structure of urban governance in India. DIGIT is also offered to commercial players, so that they can leverage it to build solutions and deliver programs working with governments. In run-time this translates into states, cities and commercials players using the building blocks from DIGIT to tailor solutions and programs that meet their needs and innovating on top of it to solve emerging problems. Over the last 20 years, eGov has partnered with more than over 3 countries, 2600 towns and cities in 16 states across India, and more than 16 crore citizens have benefited from its platform.