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About Ravi Sarraf
In 2019, Ravi Sarraf co-authored India’s first national framework for AI ethics, drafted not in a tech lab but across 47 district-level consultations with street vendors, ASHA workers, and cooperative bank managers. That document rejected top-down algorithmic governance in favor of 'policy scaffolding': modular regulatory templates adaptable to regional infrastructure gaps and informal sector realities. His work on the Gujarat Innovation Council pioneered the 'reverse sandbox' model, where startups test compliance tools *before* regulation is written, feeding real-world friction back into policy design. Sarraf insists that inclusive growth isn’t measured by GDP per capita but by how quickly a rural fintech startup can navigate SEBI’s disclosure requirements without hiring a Delhi-based law firm. He’s testified before parliamentary committees arguing that India’s digital public infrastructure must treat UPI not as a payment rail but as a civic interface, where every transaction leaves traceable, auditable signals for local governments to calibrate welfare delivery. His sensibility is rooted in fieldwork: he spent 18 months embedded in Tiruppur’s textile clusters mapping how WhatsApp-based supply chains bypass formal credit systems.
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- “How did your reverse sandbox model change how Karnataka regulated health-tech startups?”
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