Aadhaar and social assistance programming: local bureaucracies as critical intermediary
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DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.2021130
Abstract: ABSTRACT Digital identity platforms are a recent e-governance innovation for improving social assistance programming in the development context, the most well-known of which is India's Aadhaar. While a significant number of studies have accumulated on… read more here.
Keywords: social assistance; local government; assistance programming; aadhaar ... See more keywords
An eye for an I: recording biometrics and reconsidering identity in postcolonial India
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DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2017.1410102
Abstract: In 2009, the Government of India embarked on a mission to issue each of India’s over one billion residents a unique biometric identification number, Aadhaar (literally, ‘foundation’). An Aadhaar database would link the demographic and… read more here.
Keywords: eye recording; recording biometrics; aadhaar; biometrics ... See more keywords