As digital technology becomes increasingly entwined with statecraft, digital products have emerged as the new frontline of global influence and regime disruption. Everyday apps—once tools of convenience—are now capable of empowering states, transforming into instruments of surveillance, persuasion, and geopolitical leverage, observe Corporate Advisor and Independent Board Director Srinath Sridharan and DeepStrat Co-Founder and CTO Anand Venkatanarayanan.
In the 21st century, the architecture of power is not just based on the size of a nation state’s size of army, air force or navy. It also depends upon protocols, platforms, and code. The world’s most widely adopted digital systems—messaging apps, social networks, cloud infrastructure are no longer just for-profit private utilities, but have become strategic infrastructure: mediating public discourse, shaping behavioral patterns, enabling surveillance, and in some cases, altering the trajectory of regime stability.
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