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"There is no way we can do this alone. We are going to need help from all of you (researchers)," he said launching a computer science community portal ResearchAndYou.com of Microsoft Research India at its annual research symposium, TechVista 2010, and fifth year celebrations in Bangalore.
Nilekani said the project's idea is to give unique identification to each Indian.
There will be a thousand challenges to the research community as it will be the biggest biometric data base that has ever been made, he said.
Listing out the project's advantages, he said it would help in bridging the digital divide and also help ensure that public spending is really delivered to the right people.
Nilekani said there are quite a few tasks ahead which include creation of a big data depository and adoption of unique identification. The project, he said, aims to provide online authentication of identity.
UIAI's technology group is in Bangalore, he said, adding: "We intend to float a request for proposal by next week." A 'proof of concept' will be shown in two to three states in the coming months. The first set of UID's will be rolled out between August 2010 and February 2011, he said.
Meanwhile, Syed Zia ur Rahman, CEO, Yahind.com, has urged UIAI to include NRIs under the UID scheme through India’s diplomatic missions in the Gulf States. This will make it easier to trace the beneficiaries who will be registered on the embassy’s website. Similarly, the smart cards issued to the Indian nationals under the scheme should also carry the contact address of NRIs in those and other countries to facilitate quick access to them or their immediate relatives in the event of an emergency, he adds.
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