Aadhar Project Expands To Various States; A Million UIDs A Day From October

A quick search on Google news for ‘UID‘ reveals pleasant information about the Aadhar number issuing process starting in various states like Karnataka, Bihar and Kerala. Most of these states...
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Basic Aadhar Authentication API To Be Available For Free

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,...
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UID Round-Up: All The News on AADHAAR : For IT, Against It?

It’s been quite a while since we wrote about the latest developments on the UID front. The Unique Identification project might just be the biggest changer in the way we lead our lives. Recently,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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