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Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (“APAAR”) is an Aadhaar-based unique ID project for students across India initiated in July 2023 and declared a ‘digital public infrastructure’ earlier this year. States and UTs across India have passed directions to start enrolling students to the programme based on their Aadhaar cards and hold special parent-teacher meetings to […]
tl;dr IFF submitted feedback on UNDP’s Interim Report on DPI governance and safeguards, first of its kind, covering issues such as the need to define DPI and its suitability in local contexts, significance of diverse citizen participation, exclusion risks associated with DPIs amid grave digital divides, the lack of data protection laws or adequate citizen […]