By embracing the decentralized principles, the Beckn protocol(https://becknprotocol.io/) aims to create an ecosystem where participants can interact and transact with each other directly, without being dependent on a central authority or intermediary. This decentralization promotes transparency, reduces dependency, and fosters a more open and inclusive.

A classic example:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/driven-by-drivers-union-bengalurus-namma-yatri-makes-inroads-through-ondc/article66954335.ece

#Beckn
#OpenNetwork
#decentralized

More power to the people!

Thread. If you think this is limited to shady apps, you are clearly wrong. The much touted #Bangalore autorickshaw 'union' app also has a #privacy policy that is linked to a template @googledocs and no email address. #Beckn #ONDC
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RT @WolfieChristl
Google distributes a million mobile apps, its business relies on it. Many of them are super-shady, selling data without people's knowledge, or worse.

At the same time, Google doesn't s…
https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1583577443020918784

This was the design choice with which @BecknProtocol was designed when it was limited to Transit. It applies to e-commerce too. #DataCapture #Privacy

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RT @logic
@matthan Do tell how awesomely #PrivacyByDesign engineering it is - when data emission is captured at source than aggregation / collection. #Beckn #Surveillance
https://twitter.com/logic/status/1296054001293619201

@logic such nice pickings to pad the anti- #ONDC anti- #Beckn tirade, does logic count for nothing? You will be taken only as seriously as the article is.

If ONDC, compliant with Beckn, isn't an improvement over Amazon/Flipkart et al, then NPCI wouldn't have been an improvement over Visa/Mastercard et al. But it was! A big one. ONDC could be too, lets see.

And the criticism? The regulator should be involved in ONDC? Hilarious! You couldn't complain to CCI if they had a vested interest!

PTO

I see only vitriol for the Beckn protocol for digital commerce, even though it, in its https://ondc.org #ONDC form, *could* loosen monopolies like Amazon. Without some justification, the vitriol seems like noise.

e.g. being created by actors endorsed by the Gates Foundation in other contexts does give #Beckn a hint of a bad smell. Also doesn't acknowledge pre-existing work like https://valueflo.ws . Also, other open-source tech stacks of those actors, like https://sunbird.org, are mind-boggling contraptions.

There are options - like making a deal with #KoramangalaGang and joining #Beckn - It probably doesn't look profitable trade-off
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RT @menakadoshi
Amazon might be left with no option but to cut its losses as Future Retail heads to insolvency.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/amazon-vs-future-group-time-for-shoulda-woulda-coulda-is-up-what-next
https://twitter.com/menakadoshi/status/1521009774778748928

The real problem that @ONDC_Official will have is this. With reputation fakeable using array of SIM cards and app installs. Expect democratisation of this scam using #Beckn cc @iam_anandv
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RT @chhavi96
Good folks of Twitter, can you please help report this business: Gyan Sindhu Bookstore HSR.

I needed to get some books delivered, saw this place online and called them. They confirmed that they have the books and asked to pay in advanc…
https://twitter.com/chhavi96/status/1519967880028123136

What is Beckn?

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RT @logic
#ONDC #Beckn -- Origins looks like devowelised term "Beck on" - which is short form currently used for Beck and Call. So - #ECom platform regulation in India, on its 75th Independence day - will be

"Completely compliant or obedient to".. Uncle "catering to one's every need" https://twitter.com/iam_anandv/status/1442014082786156546
https://twitter.com/logic/status/1442021399523049474

One must remind how Whatsapp's #UPI access was gatekept and was finally released after they entered partnership to participate as my foundations' #Beckn client

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RT @NandanNilekani
In 2016, I had termed the arrival of #UPI as the 'WhatsApp moment' for Indian banking (see my talk from 2015 at TiE LeapFrog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGM5TvAUF00 and a primer on @Product_nation https://pn.ispirt.in/the-coming-revolution-in-india…
https://twitter.com/NandanNilekani/status/1483038926294351875

Voices : Regulators are pathetic because regulation is bad https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/regulators-are-pathetic-because-regulation-is-bad/

Brilliant piece on #CCI #ONDC #Beckn #TRAI #RBI #NFRA - and the Regulatory masala #RegulatoryCapture cc @bhargavizaveri

#ONDC #Beckn -- Origins looks like devowelised term "Beck on" - which is short form currently used for Beck and Call. So - #ECom platform regulation in India, on its 75th Independence day - will be

"Completely compliant or obedient to".. Uncle "catering to one's every need"
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RT @iam_anandv
Platform regulations is a synonym for who gets to be the Monopoly player. Is it the existing players or the new set of players preferred by the …
https://twitter.com/iam_anandv/status/1442014082786156546