amplify potential, unlock markets for customers, businesses and governments

beckn is an open protocol that enables location-aware, local commerce across industries to be discovered and engaged by any beckn-enabled application. beckn, while being a minimal open source protocol specification, acts as a force multiplier for end-beneficiaries - customers, application developers, governments, and businesses by creating an interoperable open playground to unlock value and innovation

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amplify potential, unlock markets for customers, businesses and governments

what we do

We develop open protocol specifications and enable their evolution while working with an ecosystem of participants from civil society, governments and business. Application developers can use beckn protocol and work with businesses to co-create solutions for location-aware commerce. We work closely with various stakeholders in promoting the adoption of an open but integrated digital commerce service

consumers

beckn provides consumers the freedom to discover commerce services including day-to-day services like mobility, food and grocery delivery in any consumer-facing application of choice that is beckn-enabled, thereby, making it a one-stop place for availing commerce services

businesses

beckn extends the reach of market players beyond self-owned platforms to new customers in a universal open marketplace without compromising on the experience

government

beckn enables the government to promote an interoperable, open ecosystem of applications to connect consumers to providers, thus, maximizing value to all stakeholders without being monopolized by one or two players

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supporters & contributors

We work with diverse stakeholders, without being bound by domain or industry; to facilitate growth through creation and adoption of interoperable open protocols for commerce.

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who we are

We are a not-for-profit organisation that fosters innovation and co-creation among ecosystem participants, by building interoperable open protocol specifications as a public good. beckn protocol is open source and the ecosystem is free to adopt to build digital infrastructure as public good. By building open protocol specifications, we hope to make all or any form of service available on a beckn enabled network to offer a seamless digital commerce experience to everyone

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nandan nilekani

co-founder

Nandan co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman since 2017. He is the co-founder and chairman of EkStep foundation, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric platform to improve literacy and numeracy for millions of children. Nandan is the founding chairman of unique identification authority of India. Fortune magazine conferred with “Asia’s businessman of the year 2003”. In 2005 he received the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. Times magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 & 2009. Foreign policy magazine listed him as one of the top 100 global thinkers in 2010. Nandan is the author of “Imagining India” and co-author of “Rebooting India: realising a billion aspirations”.

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Dr. pramod varma

co-founder

Pramod is the chief architect and technology advisor for India’s id project - “Aadhaar”. He is also the architect of UPI, digital locker and esign (as part of india stack). Pramod sits on the technology advisory board of several government and regulatory organisations in India like national payment corporation of India, goods and service tax network, securities exchange board of India. Pramod is currently the cto of EkStep foundation. Pramod holds a master’s and ph.d. degree in computer science with a second master’s in applied mathematics. Over the last 25+ years, Pramod has studied architectures spanning from mainframes to web, and his main areas of interest are internet scale distributed architectures and intelligent systems.

sujith nair

ceo & co-founder

Sujith brings 15+ years of management consulting experience with expertise in the areas of urban mobility, internet business, digital payments and technology-led transformations in the public sector. He was formerly the chief business officer of mobike india, a subsidiary of one of the largest bike sharing companies in the world. He also designed the technology and business model for Asia’s first open loop payment system for mass transit ticketing at Kochi metro, that formed the genesis for India’s national common mobility card specifications and the program titled “one nation, one card” by the Indian government.

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volunteer with us

Your time & skills are valuable to us. If you are committed to changing the world and enthusiastic about open digital innovation, be a beckn volunteer and help make interoperable the new normal.

contact us

Open Shared Mobility Foundation
# 87, Block B, 7th Cross,
4th Block, Koramangala
Bangalore – 560034
Karnataka, INDIA

info@beckn.org

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