Rs 300 Crore Aadhaar Contract for Reliance-HCL consortium

Telecom services provider Reliance Communications (RCom), in a consortium led by IT firm HCL Infosystems, is believed to have bagged […]

The line of debate

[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

While government aims to assign unique numbers to a billion plus population for providing a portable identity and eliminating of ghosts from databases, it has spurred a public debate on the potential misuse of UID leading to infringement of individual privacy and liberty and data security

Expertise in Identification and Detection Systems : Jean-Paul Jainsky, CEO, Sagem Securite

It [Biometrics] is considered the most reliable way of guaranteeing peoples

Can He Change the Game?

[This article was published in the August 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Nandan Nilekani has been given the charge of the one of most important eGovernance projects -UID.

e-Governance for All Spheres of Govt by 2020

Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) has suggested implementation of e-Governance in all spheres, at all levels of government by 2020 and proposed a legal framework for it in its report.

Swiss Government to Issue Biometric Identity Cards

The Government of Switzerland would be introducing biometric identity Identity Cards by the year 2010. The cards will be electronically encoded with photo and fingerprints.

Income Tax Payers to have Biometric PAN Cards: Finance Minister

The Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram stated that biometric Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards will be introduced to the income tax payers of the country. In the first phase, these will be issued to new applicants.

e-Passports issued in UK

The United Kingdom’s first e-passports, which feature personal information stored on a chip, have been issued.

Kenya stops issuing of Identity Cards

Millions of Kenyans have been unable to get national identity cards in the past five months because paper that these cards are printed on have run out.