WASHINGTON: India's Aadhaar technology does now not pose any privateness issue and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the World Bank to take this method to different nations as it's worth emulating, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has stated.
The 62-year-old multi-billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist stated Nandan Nilekani, Infosys founder who is considered as the manager architect of Aadhaar, was consulting and helping the World Bank at the project.
Asked if India's Aadhaar technology is worth emulating via different nations, he answered, "Yes".
"The benefits of that (basic ID -- Aadhaar) are very high," he advised .
More than a thousand million people in India have enrolled in Aadhaar, the arena's largest biometric ID device.
"Yes, countries should adopt that approach because the quality of governance has a lot to do with how quickly countries are able to grow their economy and empower their people," Gates stated in accordance with a query.
"We have funded the World Bank to take this Aadhaar approach to other countries," he stated.
It is believed that a number of nations, together with some from India's neighbourhood, have approached New Delhi for assistance on this subject.
"Aadhaar in itself doesn't pose any privacy issue because it's just a bio ID verification scheme," Gates, the top of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stated when asked concerning the considerations about privateness issues raised via certain quarters in India.
"The individual applications that use Aadhaar, you have to look and see what's been stored and who has access to that information. And so, application by application, you have to make sure that's well managed. In the case of the financial bank account I think it's handled very well," he stated.
"(It uses) Aadhar to set up the accounts so that you can both get your cell phone and get your bank account," he added.
Observing that Aadhaar was started ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi got here into place of job, Gates stated that it was very much to his credit score that he was prepared to embrace it.
"I'm both good friend and an admirer of Nandan Nilekani and some of the initiatives of digitisation efforts that can help with education that can help with governance," he stated.
In his lecture on 'Technology for Transformation' organised via NITI Aayog on November 2016, Gates had stated that Aadhaar is one thing that had never been achieved via any govt ahead of, now not even in a rich country.
Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique id quantity for Indians, in line with their biometric and demographic information. The information is accumulated via the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2009 via the Government of India.
The 62-year-old multi-billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist stated Nandan Nilekani, Infosys founder who is considered as the manager architect of Aadhaar, was consulting and helping the World Bank at the project.
Asked if India's Aadhaar technology is worth emulating via different nations, he answered, "Yes".
"The benefits of that (basic ID -- Aadhaar) are very high," he advised .
More than a thousand million people in India have enrolled in Aadhaar, the arena's largest biometric ID device.
"Yes, countries should adopt that approach because the quality of governance has a lot to do with how quickly countries are able to grow their economy and empower their people," Gates stated in accordance with a query.
"We have funded the World Bank to take this Aadhaar approach to other countries," he stated.
It is believed that a number of nations, together with some from India's neighbourhood, have approached New Delhi for assistance on this subject.
"Aadhaar in itself doesn't pose any privacy issue because it's just a bio ID verification scheme," Gates, the top of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, stated when asked concerning the considerations about privateness issues raised via certain quarters in India.
"The individual applications that use Aadhaar, you have to look and see what's been stored and who has access to that information. And so, application by application, you have to make sure that's well managed. In the case of the financial bank account I think it's handled very well," he stated.
"(It uses) Aadhar to set up the accounts so that you can both get your cell phone and get your bank account," he added.
Observing that Aadhaar was started ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi got here into place of job, Gates stated that it was very much to his credit score that he was prepared to embrace it.
"I'm both good friend and an admirer of Nandan Nilekani and some of the initiatives of digitisation efforts that can help with education that can help with governance," he stated.
In his lecture on 'Technology for Transformation' organised via NITI Aayog on November 2016, Gates had stated that Aadhaar is one thing that had never been achieved via any govt ahead of, now not even in a rich country.
Aadhaar is a 12-digit unique id quantity for Indians, in line with their biometric and demographic information. The information is accumulated via the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2009 via the Government of India.
Aadhaar doesn't pose any privacy issue: Bill Gates
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