On 8/28/06, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/29/06, Mitul Limbani mitul@enterux.com wrote:
I have some contacts in National Informatics Center (NIC) which we can exploit, but before that we need to have a very sound model to promote.
Speaking of which, how do we actually get people to use any such System? Do we give them SSNs like in the USA? Or will it be something a bit more (forgive the word) satanic like RFID chips or bar codes? DNA/fingerprint/retinal scan are possibilities too.
DNA / fingerrprinting /retina scan etc are not very practical for several reasons . eg to let issue me a drivers license it will be quite expensive and time consuming to get a dna rep. other two can go bad
barcodes / rfids etc are just machine readable representation of numbers.
we need to design an algorithm to define each human being based on some person and demographical information.
on a lighter note the rate at which ppl are using cell phones we cud use cell nos too :) , hope no one lights a flame on my lighter note
Basically, we need to implement it over a billion+ population. More than technology it is the mindset of the people that will be barriers to such technology (apocalypse anyone?). Also, we all know how easily people give out their SSN leading to identity theft as is evident in USA.
i agree i have experrienced this several times no matter how good your technology is and how well can you automate things some people just prefer to do things by hand :)