The Unique Identification Project, which started with much fanfare, has been taking a lot of flake lately. Hence, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has decided to conduct a thorough...

India’s ambitious UID project named Aadhar intends to create an ecosystem of applications and services that center around the idea of authenticating users through their UID. Nandan Nilakeni, Chairman,...

The main force behind Aadhaar is to provide residents with a means to easily and effectively establish their identity to any agency without having the need to produce multiple identity documents. Aadhaar...

Earlier, we told you how Google, Yahoo, Cisco & Intel have expressed a lot of interest in India’s Unique ID Number project – which is an initiative by the Indian Government set up a centralized...

Just yesterday, we saw Yahoo being interested in the Unique Identification Project. As quoted by Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz, “We met the Prime Minister today and discussed among other things,...

We have been tracking the UID project headed by Nandan Nilekani since its announcement in India and have been analysing its impact as well on various industries and players. We have questioned as to how...

It all started with things appearing at lightning fast speed and then it helped rumors to broadcast from one end of the world to another. Now, advances in computer technology and the internet have changed...

We’ve covered a lot of UID-related news in the past. Check them out here. We’ve been touting UID as the next big thing, why? Because personally I feel that it’ll help a lot with the streamlining...

When we last wrote about the UID, we mentioned how the growing mobile phone network could help verifying the identities of individuals and provide an initial databank. Today, the mobile user network is...

Recently, in our track on e-governance and the UID, we covered e-passports and a brief article on database aggregation  for the UID scheme. Now, after e-passports comes the time of e-birth certificates....