Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) Academy

About ONDC Academy:

• It is an initiative of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) initiative to create a facilitative model to help small retailers take advantage of digital commerce.
• It was launched by ONDC in collaboration with NSE Academy Ltd, a subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange.
• It is not an application, platform, intermediary, or software but a set of specifications designed to foster open, unbundled, and interoperable open networks.
• Benefits
  • The academy is a repository of educational and informative textual and video content programmes in multiple Indian languages.
  • It will provide a curated learning experience providing guidance and best practices for a successful e-commerce journey.
  • Anyone without any knowledge of e-commerce can learn how to make a seller app with a technology service provider to aggregate all sellers from a nearby marketplace to make these products available online.
  • It would also enable certification issued by NSE Academy to individuals completing an assessment developed by the institute.

Key Facts about ONDC

• It is a Section 8 company, under the initiative of DPIIT with a mission to democratize digital commerce.
• It develops and maintains the ONDC Protocol, an open technical standard similar to UPI, HTTP and   SMTP. 
• It comprises of buyer-side apps where consumers can place orders, seller-side apps that on board merchants and display their listings, and logistics platforms that handle deliveries.