Six developing countries – Sri Lanka, Morocco, the Philippines, Guinea, Ethiopia and the Togolese Republic – are using an Aadhaar-like, open-source system to provide digital identities to their citizens. The platform was built by the International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru (IIIT-B), a non-profit headed by Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai held a virtual meeting on Monday to review the initiative’s launch preparations. The project launch of ‘Grama One’ centres expected to cut middlemen in accessing govt services is scheduled on January 26, to coincide with the Republic Day of India.