Papua New Guinea

• The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) of Papua New Guinea signed a MoU for sharing India Stack.
• India Stack is the moniker for a set of open Application Programming Interface (APIs) and digital public goods that aim to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale. Although the name of this project bears the word India, the vision of India Stack can be applied to any nation.

ABOUT PAPUA NEW GUINEA

• It is an island country that lies in the south-western Pacific.
• It includes the eastern half of New Guinea (the world’s second largest island after Greenland) and many small offshore islands.
  • Land boundary with Indonesia to the west,
  • Marine neighbors– Australia to the south and Solomon Islands to the south-east.
• Capital: Port Moresby
• Linguistically, it is the world’s most diverse country, with more than 800 languages.