Swiss Network in India Partners with HCLSoftware to Pioneer Advanced GovTech Solutions

Noida, July 21, 2025: HCLSoftware, a global leader in enterprise software solutions, has entered into a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Swiss Network in India, represented by the Embassy of Switzerland, the Swiss Business Hub India, and Swissnex in India, to join the Indo-Swiss Innovation Platform. The Platform, established alongside the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) framework, sets the foundation for bilateral collaboration in strengthening digital infrastructure and strategically boosting Indo-Swiss collaboration.

The MoU aims to address key public sector challenges by promoting citizen-centric digital transformation across domains of GovTeh such as, e-governance, sovereign collaboration, healthcare, edtech, and agritech. Drawing on HCLSoftware’s experience in enterprise technologies and building platforms such as HCL Total Experience, HCL Universal Orchestrator, HCL AppScan, and HCL BigFix, the partnership will explore new models of collaboration that respond to real-world governance needs. By engaging stakeholders from government, academia, startups, and industry, the MoU fosters a cross-border GovTech innovation corridor, opening up opportunities for knowledge exchange and long-term co-innovation between Switzerland and India.

“This MoU represents our commitment to building international partnerships that drive meaningful innovation in the public sector,” said Mrs. Maya Tissafi, Ambassador of Switzerland to India. “By combining our countries’ strengths in technology and governance, we can create solutions that benefit citizens while setting new standards for international cooperation in digital transformation.”

Jonas Brunschwig, CEO and Consul General of Swissnex in India, added, “HCLSoftware joining the Indo-Swiss Innovation Platform in a strategic partnership can accelerate GovTech innovation. This partnership will create tangible opportunities for startups, researchers, and technology companies in both countries to collaborate on solutions that address real-world governance challenges and enhance digital infrastructure.”

As part of this partnership, HCLSoftware brings its Experience, Data, and Operations (XDO) Blueprint — a strategic framework developed to support public sector modernization. This expertise will contribute to identifying scalable approaches to enhance user experience, streamline service delivery, and enable data-informed decision-making across governance domains.

“This partnership represents a meaningful step toward advancing GovTech through international collaboration,” said Kalyan Kumar, Chief Product Officer at HCLSoftware. “By contributing our experience and frameworks like the XDO Blueprint, we aim to support joint efforts exploring innovative, citizen-centric digital transformation approaches. We look forward to working with partners across Switzerland and India to co-create scalable solutions that can enhance transparency, improve service accessibility, and strengthen public institutions for the future.”

As both nations continue their digital transformation journey, the partnership will catalyze developing next-generation public sector technologies and set a new benchmark in e-governance.

About Swissnex

Swissnex is a global network connecting Switzerland with the world in education, research, and innovation. With a strong presence in leading innovation hubs, Swissnex facilitates collaboration across borders by engaging with corporations, startups, government bodies, academia, researchers, and industry associations. Swissnex in India’s work is anchored in three core focus areas—Health, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation—where active partnerships are built to address global challenges and enable knowledge exchange. Notable initiatives include the Indo-Swiss Antimicrobial Resistance Innovation Dialogue, Swissnex for the Planet, an initiative on planetary health focusing on human and non-human species, and Digital Trust and SpaceTech cohorts for Swiss startups to internationalize in India. Swissnex has supported nearly 200 Swiss startups in validating their market entry into India, helping accelerate innovation and co-creation between the two countries.

About HCLSoftware

HCLSoftware is a global leader in software innovation and the software division of HCLTech. We develop, market, sell, and support transformative solutions across various industries, including business and industry, intelligent operations, total experience, data and analytics, and cybersecurity. Our commitment to customer success and our core values of integrity, inclusion, value creation, people-centricity, and social responsibility drive us to deliver best-in-class software products that empower organizations to achieve their goals.

With a rich heritage of pioneering spirit, HCLSoftware serves more than 20,000 organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 100 and almost half of the Fortune 500.

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