@aha_irshi@JacobusCilliers@kopalo@jackerhack@nixxin@databaazi@pranesh@fs0c131y So, looking up J-PAL, I find "Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence." Yet, this is entirely missing from the biometric scheme in India. Only slideshows. Actual #UIDAI data showed nearly all registrants already had documents
@aha_irshi@JacobusCilliers@kopalo@jackerhack@nixxin@databaazi@pranesh@fs0c131y Appallingly, the current court judgment cites the 'slideshow' and ignores signed affidavits and reports of starvation deaths due to exclusion, following the scheme. Suggest J-PAL could hew a little closer to its mission statement, rather than spew propaganda.
@williamheath@JeffJonas I'm sure this makes some sense, although he doesn't explain what happens when a key enabling record is necessarily deleted. But what really struck me was his assumption that this is all about Bad Guys. In the real world, though, communities that are a 1/n
@williamheath@JeffJonas blend of self-help and helping others, an ideal of nation-states, mainly need identity resolution to sharpen the focus of assistive efforts, to ensure that help provided to A is not blocked by administrative snafus or deliberate diversion to B. 2/n
@williamheath@JeffJonas As real people struggle to live with multiple identifying documents that are marginally or even markedly different, due to incompetence or malfeasance by others, 'real-world' forces compromise identity solutions by imposing snooping-friendly technologies 3/n
In India, we go one step ahead of all this forensic BS: we employ stockmarket billionaires as experts in designing and implementing national policy. Minor problem: the solutions are anti-national, but that is easily ignored by nationalists, including 1/n
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it would appear, those sworn to defend the Constitution. We've come a long way from the days a colonised India established fingerprints as a way to track criminals: today, their failings are used to exclude welfare beneficiaries. Of course, it is possible 2/n
that a market billionaire might view an indigent as a criminal: living off the taxes paid by billionaires. It is another matter that India's industrial billionaires prosper off subsidies designed to grow the economy, in the hope that some of that 3/n