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The Interview: Rohini and Nandan Nilekani want to use Platforms to Fight Platforms

Strategic Philanthropy | Societal Thinking | Oct 30, 2020

With “Societal Platform”, the billionaire couple are combining their ideas, experience, and wealth to effect change.

Nandan Nilekani co-founded Infosys and architected Aadhaar, which now covers 1.26 billion Indian.s Rohini Nilekani isn’t just India’s most prolific woman philanthropist, but she’s also the sixth overall, While Nandan has mastered the art of building disruptive tech platforms, Rohini has built an ambitious and bold philanthropic portfolio. The two are partnering to pool their ideas, experience and wealth into creating “Societal Platform”.

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