Digital Identity India

What is Digital Identity? 

• A digital identity is an online or networked identity that an individual, organization, or electronic device adopts or claims in cyberspace.
• It is a collection of unique identifiers and behavioral patterns that can be linked to a specific person, company, or device. 

Aadhaar Project.

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  India established the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in 2008 to create the Aadhaar number for citizens. 
• The goal was to create a single, unique identification document or number that would connect everyone's lives across their various business accounts. 
• Know more about Unique Identity (UID) Aadhaar Project. 

Significant Aspects of Aadhaar 

Lowest-Cost Solution: Aadhaar has proved to be a robust and unique low-cost solution. It provides a smartcard-based solution to all the stakeholders such as UIDAI, residents and corporates using the system. 

Safeguarding Inclusion of Poor: The Aadhaar system is convenient for residents, leading to the inclusion of all. Identity in a centralized repository can be managed to weed out duplicates. 

Digital ID Platform: A unique number that can be plugged into databases of names of users or beneficiaries of other systems serves the larger purpose of cleaning those databases while authenticating identities.

 

Diverse Usage: Aadhaar can be used at work to verify a person's identity in systems like banking, providing proof of presence, lifting rations from PDS shops, and getting mobile SIMs, among other things.