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Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the UIDAI notes, "The name Aadhaar communicates the fundamental role of the number issued by the UIDAI the number as a universal identity infrastructure, a foundation over which public and private agencies can build services and applications that benefit residents across India." Aadhaar's guarantee of uniqueness and centralised, online identity verification would be the basis for building these multiple services and applications, and facilitating greater connectivity to markets Aadhaar would also give any resident the ability to access these services and resources, anytime, anywhere in the country Aadhaar can for example, provide the identity infrastructure for ensuring financial inclusion across the country – banks can link the unique number to a bank account for every resident, and use the online identity authentication to allow residents to access the account from anywhere in the country Aadhaar would also be a foundation for the e

Understanding the concept and functioning of Aadhaar is a must for every Indian resident. In the series, "Understanding Aadhaar" we will be explaining Aadhaar from very possible perspective.  Here is an excerpt from UIDAI  The brand name of the Unique Identification number (UID) will be Aadhaar. The name and logo for the unique numbers to be issued by the UIDAI have been developed keeping in mind the transformational potential of the program. Together, they communicate the essence and spirit of the UIDAI's mandate to people across the country. The UIDAI's mandate is to issue every resident a unique identification number linked to the resident's demographic and biometric information, which they can use to identify themselves anywhere in India, and to access a host of benefits and services. The number (referred to until now as the 'UID') has been named Aadhaar, which translates into 'foundation', or 'support'. This word is present across most

In a major policy decision, the state government has decided to release all welfare benefits only through the Aadhaar card. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday instructed the officials of the civil supplies department that they, Here is the rest of story from Times of India

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Aadhaar is an ambitious project by the Indian government to put every resident on an online database. It is the biggest of its kind project in the world. It is not only done in a country that is one of the most populous but also built on the state-of-the art technology. One of the service expected to offered by Aadhaar project is online authentication and verification of the residents. Towards this end, the Aadhaar authentication service expected to be open by year-end. The additional details are here

The immediate opportunity here is for the IT companies, most of whom have already started gearing up to the huge demand in the country itself. With a population nearing 1.2 billion, the country would need a massive infrastructure to support CSMS. Not only the banking industry but also the post offices (which in rural India are a substitute for banks) need to gear up to meet operation requirement. This is good news for hardware and software companies. There are a few Indian companies like Vakrangee Software who are actually the feet-on-the-ground, best positioned to take advantage of this mapping opportunity. Among the bigger companies, TCS has taken bold steps in penetrating the Indian market. Source: Unique ID spinoffs for banks, IT

So far, despite all the skepticism about a centralized database with the entire country’s biometrics, Nandan Nilekani’s obvious expertise ensured he had a smooth sail. He answered all critics head on and argued that the Aadhar biometric database he was creating could not be abused because it couldn’t be queried—so, for instance, it wouldn’t have any information on the caste or income of person X, but would just be able to say if a fingerprint belonged to X; it was only a means to establish identity, nothing else. Source: FE Editorial: Hope floats

Aashar API's represents one of most potential resource for Indian developer. These APi's are offered free. Here is some details.  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,   UIDAI  plans   to do this by opening up the  Aadhar API  to third party developers. An  API  or  application programming interface  is a set of rules that software programs follow to communicate with each other. So the opening up of the Aadhar API means is that  based on your UID number the software will be able to verify your identity . Through the API  an individual’s Aadhar number is sent to the authentication server  and it returns a yes or no depending on whether the identity is true or not. In addition to this, services like banks and payment gateways that require a higher level of security can also pass in  biometric information along with

While India is conducting what is probably the largest census in history, the country’s unique identification authority  Aadhaar/UIDAI  is working on making that data usable. It has released version one of its Aadhaar Authentication Application Programming Interface (API), which contain API data format, protocol and security specifications. The way it will work is: a user’s Aadhar number, alongwith other data (including biometric information) will be submitted to the Central Identities Data Repository for verification: authentication will only be in the form of a ‘yes’ or no response, and no personal identity will be released. The first Aadhar numbers would be issued between August 2010 and February 2011, and over five years, the UIDAI intends to issue 600 million UIDs.   Source:

This is an updated version of a blog that I posted about an year and a half back. At that time, only few students were interested in cloud computing projects and now their numbers are increasing. Hence this update. The new project done since my earlier article are Socioseacher - a project that links major web services - Facebook, Linkedin  Placement and Training Cel l- By Harsha, PES . This project is built using Google resources IEEE paper based projects A New Wireless Web Access Mode Based on Cloud Computing: Yunpeng    Load-Balanced Multicast for Data-Intensive Applications on Cloud Multi-Tenant SOA Middleware for Cloud Computing Following my presentation on Cloud Applications at Cloud Computing and Virtualization workshop at NIT, K Surathkal during July 2010, a good number of students from a couple of colleges have approached me requesting to suggest an academic cloud-based project for their degree and diploma courses (thanks to faculty who attended the work