Over the coming weeks I am going provide some of my thoughts around identification (ID) and ID solutions. A critical understanding about ID systems can be neatly boxed into a single statement: Things you know; things you have; and things you are. But more on this later. Almost from the beginning, Aadhaar (in India) has struggled…
I do find it interesting that everyone in the development community is focused on mobile payments and yet the attachment of a higher level of verification using biometrics and a randomly generated 12 digit number and it is a target at every turn. Over 30 million linked accounts to start DBT payments in most countries…
Axis Bank to be the first to start using Aadhaar for account openings, satisfying the need for KYC. This starts the process of building a verifiable credit file. In addition to the use of Aadhaar Axis will start using the Visa network to validate the biometrics across all 25 branches of Axis. “For the middle-class customers…
There are two factors working here 1) that the goal of UID is to reach and enable the poor to access services but 2) that a lot of the wealthy in India do not want the system to be able to track all bank accounts and land transfers. Data sourced from BMC, the implementing agency for…
Once the service starts, societies can seek Aadhaar enrollment and registration camps in their premises. At present, office bearers need to register on the official site http://aadhaar.maharashtra.gov.in in case they wish to have camps set up in their societies. Following the resumption of this service, around 300 societies are already on the waiting list. Narayan K,…
The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dr M Veerappa Moily has given go ahead to roll out Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme in 35 more high Aadhaar coverage districts on Sept 01, 2013 in the existing DBTL States. With this total number of districts to be covered by DBTL Scheme comes to…
SAP India to enable Union govt to improve operational efficiency of various health programs. TracOHealth leverages the power of Aadhaar (UID) to uniquely identify beneficiaries and has been designed with the ability to work even in the remotest corners of the country. Powered by SAP HANA, with both web and mobile interfaces, TracOHealth provide real time analytics…
Shifting the department that is managing the Direct Benefit Transfer program out of planning and into the Finance Ministry is a good idea. I was sort of surprised to see it living in the Planning Commission in the beginning. The DBT program has covered over 2.8 million LPG transactions valued at R 116 crore in seven weeks. It said the location…
Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies Dinesh Gundu Rao told reporters here on Friday that the department is taking steps to link all ration cards to Unique Identity (UID) numbers which is currently being given by the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI). But, he did not reveal whether the department would…
NIST readies new standards for biometric ID cards
Federal agencies looking to incorporate iris recognition authentication add-on capabilities to their Personal Identity Verification cards will soon get some expert help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In July, NIST is set to release a key biometric reference that federal and federal contractors can use to develop identification cards under the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS-201), Personal Identity Verification.
NIST readies new standards for biometric ID cards — FCW.
