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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