ABOUT US

Mihir Kshirsagar directs Princeton CITP’s technology policy clinic, where he focuses on how to shape a digital economy that serves the public interest. Drawing on his background as an antitrust and consumer protection litigator, his research examines the consumer impact of digital markets and explores how digital public infrastructure can be designed for public benefit. His interest in DPI was sparked by the potential for it to serve as a tool to level the competitive playing field for digital services. He taught a course at Princeton that examined the intellectual underpinnings of DPI in the Spring of 2024 and has convened workshops about the topic in Princeton, Washington D.C., and Mumbai to explore emerging themes. Mihir has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a law degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeremy McKey is a tech policy researcher at Princeton’s CITP and a policy fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Allen Lab. Previously, he was Director of Special Projects at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, where he led a funding initiative focused on U.S. democracy. His interest in DPI emerged while pursuing an MPA degree, where he had the chance to spend several months in New Delhi researching the India Stack. He is particularly interested in the geopolitics of DPI payment systems, as well as the ways that DPI can contribute to a vision of democratic renovation. Jeremy has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his Master’s degree from Princeton.

Felix Chen is a researcher at Princeton’s CITP, where he works on projects related to the societal impacts of AI, competition, and DPI. His interest in DPI stems from previous research into municipal data practices and their effects on constituent trust, through a case study of the city of Boston. Additionally, he has worked on decentralized social technologies and public procurement at local and sub-national levels. Felix has an undergraduate degree from Harvard.

Funding

We are grateful for the financial support of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton that allows us to pursue this line of work.

This blog is a sandbox of our ideas. See here for an overview of the project and our working understanding of DPI. We’d be grateful for your corrections and eager to collaborate. To start a conversation, please reach out to digitalrailsblog@gmail.com.