The Minds Powering Samyog
Board, Leadership & Advisors
Board of Directors
Leadership Team
Advisors
Samyog is operationalising DEPA — India's data empowerment and protection framework — to unlock novel, secure, and rights-respecting pathways for AI training and inference on private institutional datasets at scale.
Both DEPA Training and DEPA Private Inferencing share a common foundation: data never leaves institutional boundaries without authorisation, purpose-bound safeguards, and cryptographic guarantees.
The next frontier demands access to high-quality datasets locked within institutional silos. DEPA Training unlocks AI model training on protected datasets — with privacy, sovereignty, and scalability built in from the start.
Privacy safeguards around sensitive institutional data remain onerous and fragile. DEPA Private Inferencing enables real-time AI inference on protected datasets without data ever leaving institutional boundaries.
DEPA Training and Private Inferencing can unlock data that currently remains siloed and underutilised — powering the next wave of AI innovation across India's most critical industries.
AI-driven diagnostics, drug discovery, and public health — powered by securely pooled clinical data across hospital networks.
Credit access for 400M underserved individuals and MSMEs, enabled by privacy-preserving collaboration across financial institutions.
Personalised learning at scale for 250M students, with portable skill credentials for a future-ready workforce.
Richer consumer intelligence and demand forecasting through trusted collaboration across competing retail datasets.
Samyog is a stakeholder-led, self-regulatory organisation guiding the creation and management of Data Collaboratives — bringing together data providers, consumers, and service ecosystems to enable trusted, repeatable, multi-party data collaboration within focused domains.
It operationalises DEPA Training and Private Inferencing at scale by shaping market awareness and delivering critical governance services: certification, standardised contracts, key management infrastructure, grievance redressal, and training.
Powered by iSPIRT. Technical standards by DEPA Foundation.
The Ecosystem Roles
Shared platforms, onboarding systems, and key management infrastructure that power the DEPA ecosystem — removing the need for each participant to build from scratch.
Entity registration, verification, and certification for data providers, consumers, and tech service providers — ensuring every participant meets the required standards.
Machine-executable legal agreements and key management systems that make multi-party data collaborations legally sound, transparent, and auditable.
A formal dispute resolution mechanism that maintains trust across the ecosystem — providing clear recourse for all participants when things go wrong.
Technical and operational support for ecosystem participants — from onboarding to ongoing enablement — ensuring DEPA is adopted correctly and at scale.
A searchable registry of available datasets and their governance terms — enabling data consumers to discover and contract for the data they need responsibly.
India's AI future will be shaped by those obsessed with solving problems — people willing to think independently, take initiative, and build with purpose. This is a volunteer fellowship rooted in action: a 24-week programme where you will take ownership of a module of public infrastructure — making contributions that will endure beyond the fellowship and strengthen India's digital commons.
Develop capabilities and components on the DEPA stack — clean rooms, privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), and electronic contracts.
Confidential Clean Room components · Differential privacy implementations · Smart contract frameworks for data governance
Build and enhance the market ecosystem by expanding capabilities or creating new opportunities for data consumers and providers.
Data Collaborative playbooks · Sector-specific DEPA adoption frameworks · Market research and ecosystem mapping
Learn the problem first — not just the technical or legal dimension, but why this public good matters for India. Every build decision grounded in human stakes.
Work on a specific, scoped module — a technical component, techno-legal paper, or market enablement framework. All outputs open-source, with support from iSPIRT practitioners.
Ensure the work lives on as a permanent public asset — documented clearly enough that the next contributor can build on it without starting over.
Who This Is For
The Fellow does not leave with a certificate. They leave with a contribution — one permanent public asset that outlasts the programme and serves India's digital commons.
One Fellow. One contribution. One permanent public asset at a time.
Volunteer programme · Open-source principles · iSPIRT-supported
Explore the official framework documentation and architecture
depa.worldDive into the code, run scenarios, and contribute to the framework
github.com/iSPIRTJoin as a no-greed no-glory contributor to DEPA and Samyog
ispirt.in/volunteerInfrastructure partnerships, data collaboratives, and ecosystem participation
info@samyog.worldSamyog follows in the tradition of India's most successful digital public infrastructure initiatives — institutions that transformed markets by making trust programmable at scale.
