Government of the Data (Part 2: India’s Aadhaar and the debate on digital IDs) Phuah Eng Chye (20 June 2020) The largest and most ambitious digital identity (ID) system is India’s Aadhaar system. Padmaparna Ghosh notes “Aadhaar, which was launched by the Indian government nearly a decade ago, aims to give each of the nation’s … “Government of the Data (Part 2: India’s Aadhaar and the debate on digital IDs)”
Month: June 2020
Government of the Data (Part 1: From census to digital IDs)
Government of the Data (Part 1: From census to digital IDs) Phuah Eng Chye (6 June 2020) Yasha Levine notes “governments have been counting their people since the beginning of recorded history. You can find descriptions of censuses in the Old Testament, on Sumerian cuneiform tablets, and in the writings of the ancient Greeks. There … “Government of the Data (Part 1: From census to digital IDs)”