Sujith Nair is the CEO and Co-founder of FIDE – Foundation for Interoperability in Digital Economy,  a not-for-profit organisation that is the genesis author and angel donor to an open-source initiative called the Beckn Protocol. Beckn enables the creation of decentralised digital economy ecosystems.  Co-founded along with Nandan Nilekani and Dr Pramod Varma,  FIDE has been helping Beckn Protocol evolve as an independent and large-scale open-source community effort focusing on its adoption and sustenance as a digital public good. 

Sujith conceptualised and helped set up the world’s first decentralised open mobility network using the Beckn Protocol in Kochi called the Kochi Open Mobility Network (KOMN), which was launched in July 2021. 

Sujith also co-conceptualised the idea of ONDC along with Mr Anil Aggarwal, AS, DPIIT and Ms Anjali Bansal, Co-founder of Avanaa Capital, as part of the pandemic relief effort of the Commerce Ministry in April 2020.  Sujith onboarded the first set of market participants on ONDC, co-authored the ONDC Strategy Paper and was instrumental in the setup of ONDC Ltd in Dec 2021.