Unique Identity Project (Aadhar): Useful links


A small, but growing collection of my bookmarks on the Unique Identity Project of India

Academic publications

Ministry of Rural Development. 2013. “Direct Benefit Transfer System: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme v 1.0.” New Delhi: Government of India. http://nrega.nic.in/Netnrega/WriteReaddata/Circulars/DBA_Manual13.pdf.
Drèze, Jean. 2010. “Unique Facility, or Recipe for Trouble?” The Hindu, November 25, 2010, sec. Op-ed. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/unique-facility-or-recipe-for-trouble/article911055.ece.
“Aadhaar: On a Platform of Myths.” n.d. The Hindu. Accessed April 26, 2013. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/aadhaar-on-a-platform-of-myths/article2236134.ece.
Gelb, Alan, and Caroline Decker. 2012. “Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing Countries*.” Review of Policy Research 29 (1): 91–117. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.2011.00539.x.
Greenleaf, Graham. 2010. “India’s National ID System: Danger Grows in a Privacy Vacuum.” Computer Law & Security Review 26 (5): 479–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2010.07.009.
Kak, Amba Utara, and Swati Malik. 2010. “Privacy and the National Identification Authority of India Bill: Leaving Much to the Imagination.” NUJS Law Review 3: 485. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nujslr3&id=493&div=&collection=journals.
Bowyer, Kevin W. 2012. “The Results of the NICE.II Iris Biometrics Competition.” Pattern Recognition Letters 33 (8): 965–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2011.11.024.

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I work with the Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford University. Before this, I worked with the Right to Food Campaign and other rights based campaigns in India. To learn more, click here.

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