Centre proposes integrated digital identity system, seeks citizens' opinions
2 years, 10 months ago

Centre proposes integrated digital identity system, seeks citizens' opinions

India Today  

The Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology has released a draft report on India Digital Ecosystem Architecture 2.0 or the InDEA 2.0 and sought citizens’ comments on the same. AADHAAR NOT SUFFICIENT: GOVT In the draft report, the government has argued that digital identity is fundamental in enabling the citizen to answer the first question asked in any interaction with a public or private organisation ‘Who are you’. "While Aadhaar seems to have answered this question at population scale in respect of all publicly funded schemes, the ministries and states are required to create several identities for the same citizen acting in different capacities like student, teacher, farmer, land owner, entrepreneur, customer of a bank, driver, owner of a vehicle, pensioner and so on," reads the document. FEDERATED DIGITAL IDENTITIES Further, the report says that InDEA 2.0 proposes a model of Federated Digital Identities that seeks to optimise the number of digital identities that a citizen needs to have.

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