The Unique Identification Authority
of India (UIDAI) has launched its ‘Public Data Portal’ (data.uidai.gov.in) for
the Aadhaar project in line with the National Data Sharing & Accessibility
Policy (NSDAP) 2012. The portal will enable the public to access several
anonymised datasets generated in the UIDAI ecosystem. The public data portal is
in consonance with the larger vision of the Government of India to make data
available through data.gov.in.
The UIDAI has also been sharing
information about the latest developments of the project in the public domain
through it’s website www.uidai.gov.in. Apart from adhering to the requirements
of the Right to Information Act of providing information suo-moto to the public
at regular intervals through the Internet, the UIDAI proactively puts
out quarterly statements of its expenditure, various technical
documents related to biometrics, proof of concept studies and working papers
in the public domain.
Speaking on the occasion, UIDAI
chairman Shri Nandan Nilekani said that the “public data portal is a major step
in enabling transparency for improving UIDAI’s operations. Using data to
enhance decision making capabilities and informed decision making is at the
core of the rationale for the public portal”. The Government of India notified
the National Data Sharing & Accessibility Policy (NSDAP) 2012 on 17th
March, 2012. The NDSAP policy is designed to promote data sharing and enable
access to central government-owned data for national planning and
development.
UIDAI Director General,Shri Ram
Sewak Sharma, said: “The public data portal will enable big data analysis using
crowd sourcing model for the benefit of the society at large.”
UIDAI is currently releasing five
data sets pertaining to Aadhaar Enrolment and another five data sets
pertaining to Aadhaar Authentication.These datasets provide insights
on enrolment and authentication request processed by UIDAI distributed by
geography, by ecosystem partner and by certain demographic characteristics.
Data sets are available in human and
machine-readable formats. Programmatic access to the data sets is also provided
for the convenience of researchers. The datasets only provide compiled
anonymised information. Due care has been taken to maintain privacy
of personal information of inpiduals.
For more information, log on to
www.data.uidai.gov.in
For enquiries, contact:
techsupport@uidai.gov.in/rajendra@uidai.gov.in/sknidai@gmail.com
