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India Stack—Digital Infrastructure as Public Good.

The article discusses the India Stack project of digitizing India, which consists of numerous application programming interfaces (APIs), with a particular focus on the Indian government's Aadhaar program to develop identification (ID) cards for Indians. An overview of the Aadhaar program's use of bi...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 76 - 82
Autores principales: RAGHAVAN, VIVEK, JAIN, SANJAY, VARMA, PRAMOD
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2019
Materias:
Digitization
Identification cards
Biometric identification
Privacy
Electronic funds transfers
Application program interfaces
Government policy
India
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Sumario:The article discusses the India Stack project of digitizing India, which consists of numerous application programming interfaces (APIs), with a particular focus on the Indian government's Aadhaar program to develop identification (ID) cards for Indians. An overview of the Aadhaar program's use of biometric authentication to ID people, including privacy concerns with this, is provided. The development of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) for electronic payment is discussed.