This event has been indefinitely postponed. The original description is below.
The friction of digital payments has become a challenge to scaling technology businesses in India. While some ecommerce companies have adopted cash payments, others have implemented elegant techniques of absorbing credit card information at the user account level.
Yet, drop rates remain stubbornly high, adoption of electronic payments remains poor, opening merchant accounts appears mired in labyrinthine processes and subscription payments remain largely closed.
PayStation hopes to bring together engineers and technologists for new ideas and fresh perspectives in resolving these challenges in India’s payments’ infrastructure. If you’d like to share your experience or work in online, mobile or alternate payments, or in fact if you’ve worked on developing secure and safe payments infrastructure, go ahead and propose a session below!
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Viral B. Shah
@viralbshah
Your Aadhaar number as your payment address
Submitted Oct 11, 2012
Section:
Alternate Payments
Technical level:
Beginner
Session type:
Lecture
What if you could use your Aadhaar number as your payment address?
Outline
Twenty crore people in India have an Aadhaar number today. What if all of these people could automatically start using electronic payments using their Aadhaar number? I will discuss the work being done by UIDAI on making Aadhaar a payment address, and the relevant APIs being provided by UIDAI.
Speaker bio
Dr. Viral Shah works with the Unique Identification Authority of India on the design and implementation of Aadhaar as a payment address and Aadhaar as an authentication mechanism in various existing and upcoming payment systems. He has been working on facilitating various various Government payments such as subsidies, social security benefits, and p2p remittances using Aadhaar.
He has a PhD in High Performance Computing from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and worked at Interactive Supercomputing building a parallel matlab compiler prior to joining UIDAI. He is also one of the authors of the new and upcoming programming language for technical computing - Julia (http://www.julialang.org/).
Links
- http://in.linkedin.com/in/viralbshah
- Aadhaar authentication API: http://uidai.gov.in/images/FrontPageUpdates/aadhaar_authentication_api_1_6.pdf
- Aadhaar e-KYC API: http://uidai.gov.in/images/aadhaar_kyc_api_1_0_170912.pdf
- MicroATM Standards: http://www.iba.org.in/Documents/MicroATM_Standards_v1.5_FINAL_Aug11_2012[1].pdf
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