Computing, IT & AI
Aadhaar and the India Stack
2010 CE onwardUIDAI / Government of IndiaAadhaar / India StackPan-Indian / unspecified
2010
The world's largest biometric digital-identity system and the open 'stack' of APIs built on it.
- Dated
- 2010
- As scholars put it
- 2010 CE onward
- Originator
- UIDAI / Government of India
- Source text
- Aadhaar / India Stack
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Computing, IT & AI
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Cited internationally as a digital-ID and DPI model.
Fair to say
Powerful infrastructure that also raises ongoing privacy and exclusion debates.
Path to modern innovation
Enables digital identity, payments and services at population scale.
2016Transmission
Built in India; concepts exported as a template for other nations.
References
- 1UIDAI
- 2India Stack documentation
Further reading
Corrections and additional sources: edit IND-152 on GitHub.