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Finally Microsoft Research Finds New Love In India’s Unique ID Project
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 identification system for the Indian citizens which can be used for various kinds of identification purposes. Now [...]
Government To Resurrect Project e-Bharat – Will The Renewed Focus See Any Success?
Government has been trying hard through its various e-Governance initiatives to hasten the execution of its policy decisions with proper transparency. The recent initiative like UID (Unique Identification) was a step in that direction so as to conjure ’e-Governance’ in India.
Business Standard reports that the government has resurrected talk on ‘e-Bharat’ a dying project at initial stage with World [...]
Now Google Expresses Interest In UID – How Will The Project Benefit From This?
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, how Yahoo can help the Government in the project.” Looks like several more giants will be coming in soon.
As said in our last post, under [...]
Yahoo – Cisco Express Interest In India’s UID Project – Would Google Be Interested?
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 this massive project would be completed and which route would it take? Whether it will be mobile? or something else?
Now [...]
Indian Army Nails The Internet, While Websites Become Mandatory For Educational Institutions
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 the way people work, learn, and communicate. The Internet has become an integral part of almost everyone’s economic, political, and [...]
UID Mandatory, Online Authentication – Updated News
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 of the system that is currently cluttered up with bureaucracy. In the last few weeks, there’s been quite a [...]
UID verification via Mobile
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 tending towards a whopping 500 million. And by the next 4 years, close to half the mobile users will be able to use their [...]
First E-Passports, Now E-Birth Certificates?
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. Along with UID in-charge Nandan Nilekani, the Health Ministry is proposing a scheme to give health cards and birth certificates online. “We were discussing [...]
Unique Identity To Each Citizen- Will The Mobile Subscriber Database Help Getting There?
The Unique Identification Authority of India certainly has its job cut out for it. Since the revelation that every Indian would be getting a unique identification number, WATBlog has covered the developments. The inclusion of prolific technocrat Nandan Nilekani as the head incharge of the panel ushers in the prospect of new governance – where [...]
Govt Set To Create Massive Domestic IT Opportunities Through UID
Government announcement in 2008 about establishment of a Unique Identity Authority to simplify things for all citizens hardly aroused any public interest but the recent announcement of Nandan Nilekani joining as chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India seems to have lifted the expectations from this project.
What really is UID?
UID (Unique Identification) is a project [...]