Context :
Implement 'one nation, one ration
card' scheme till July 31, Supreme Court
tells Centre /
TOI / 30 June
Extract :
Ø “ When unorganized workers are waiting for registration to reap the benefits of
various welfare schemes of the Centre and the States, the lackadaisical
attitude by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, is unpardonable. There
was urgency in the National Database for Unorganized Workers ( NDUW )
portal to be finalized, looking at the pandemic and dire need of unorganized
workers to receive the benefits ‘ , the
bench said
“ The attitude of the Ministry in not completing the module even though
directed ( by the SC ), as early as on August 21, 2018, shows that the
Ministry is not alive to the plight of migrant workers and the non-action of
the Ministry is strongly disapproved. We further direct that the NDUW portal
is finalized and implementation of the portal commences on or before July
31 “, it
ordered.
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MY TAKE :
Ø
Anguish
of the Supreme Court is both, justifiable and understandable
Ø
Designing
and launching NDUW portal is no big deal
Ø
But
real problem is ,
# How to identify those 38 crore ( 380 million ) migrant
workers ?
# If Ministry somehow succeeds in identifying, how to get them to register
on NDUW portal , since
connection, nor a connected device like a Tablet ( - it is extremely difficult
to fill in an Online Registration Form , having 20 data-fields and number
of drop-lists, using a Mobile phone ) ?
# Is there any simple method / mechanism ( for creation of such a
database ), considering that , in India, almost every citizen’s PERSONAL
DATA has , over the past 10-15 years, been CAPTURED in one or more of
the following databases (
a very small sample ) ?
DATABASES of
INDIAN CITIZEN
|
Entity ( Govt
or Private ) / Scheme / Company / Website / Mobile App etc which has
collected data from persons and created database and maintains |
Number of
registered Users / Beneficiaries ( Million ) |
|
|
|
|
Census – NPR - CAA |
1,300 |
|
Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) |
1,000 |
|
Mobile Service Providers ( MSPs ) |
800 |
|
Aadhar Card |
1,000 |
|
Ration Card |
800 |
|
PAN Card |
|
|
Passport |
|
|
Credit Card / Debit Card |
|
|
Jan Dhan Bank Accounts / Savings Accounts |
1,000 |
|
Aarogya Setu App |
|
|
CoWin App |
|
|
UMANG app |
|
|
Diksha |
|
|
eNAM |
|
|
· eSanjeevani / PM
SVANidhi / Student Scholarships |
|
|
· DigiBunai / LPG subsidy / Dhanlakshmi Scheme / Janani Surakhsha Yojna |
|
|
LIC / Insurance Companies |
|
|
Farmers Database ( PM Kisan Samman Nidhi ) |
100 |
|
Common Service Centres |
0.25 |
|
Tax Information Network |
|
|
Central Pension Scheme |
|
|
National Health Stack ( Ayushman Bharat Card ) |
|
|
National Pediatrics Academy |
|
|
National Skills Depository |
|
|
Voters List |
|
|
Driving License / Senior Citizen Card |
|
|
DigiLocker |
|
|
Websites ( E-Com / Social Media / Fintech / Govt /
Banks etc ) |
|
|
Mobile Payment Wallets |
|
Ø
Obviously,
above is a very SMALL list – by no means comprehensive
Ø It is very likely that , may be 30 % - 50 % of the “ data-fields “ are COMMON to
all these databases
Ø Each of the entity mentioned above, is storing these databases in its own
servers in
some STRUCTURED way
Ø
Many
of the millions of records must be outdated
Even any given person’s data, across various databases, may vary widely / be
obsolete
QUESTION :
Ø Given
this “ state of affairs “, should we go ahead and launch one more database –
with very slim chance of, not only capturing the data in a STRUCTURED way, but
also being able to keep it up-to-date, where economy is rapidly changing ( robot-led
automation / migration / job losses / WFH etc ) ?
Ø Even
after launch, how many months / years will it take to complete database
creation ?
POSSIBLE SOLUTION :
Ø In
India, we have 760 million Smart Phones and 400 million ( 40 crore ) Feature
phones
Ø Most
likely those feature phones are being used by Unorganized
Workers
Ø Govt
should replace these FREE,
with ( 4G ) Smart phones upon surrender of feature phones
Ø At
Rs 1,000 per phone ( if 40 crore were ordered ), that would cost the Govt, Rs
40,000 Cr
Ø These
smart phones must be pre-installed with FACIAL
RECOGNITION features and an app as described
in my following blog / email :
I
am One , I will become Many ………………………………..[ 06 Jan 2020 ]
Extract :
Following
is my suggestion :
Ø Central
Govt to launch a online portal called,
Unified Identity
for Indian Citizen )
Ø By appropriately enacted Law, Central Govt will order all CARD ISSUING
AGENCIES to
upload their “ Card
server and continue to do so DAILY for new additions to their databases
Ø SUIIC will use AI - Machine Learning - Big Data Analytics etc., to merge /
collate all kinds of structured /
kinds of Cards / unique IDENTIFIERS, issued by any entity, to any citizen
These will include Mobile Service Providers and E Mail ID providers
Ø This exercise will lead to creation of UNIQUE PROFILE for each citizen, and
named :
YUP
( Your Unique Profile )
YUP ( with unique serial number ) will be that SINGLE CARD which
replaces all CARDS
Ø YUP will also be the
name of a Mobile App supported by SUIIC web server
Ø Any citizen can download the YUP ( absolutely VOLUNTARY ) , open it on
his
smart phone , enter his mobile
his own FACE
Ø The Mobile App will automatically and instantly, upload the FACE IMAGE
onto SUIIC database and the
Ø SUIIC will embed into the FACE PHOTO , all data of all the CARDS ever
issued to that
person ( using
owner’s mobile phone
Ø Just under the FACE PHOTO, there will be a DROP LIST of all the Cards /
Identifiers
which have been
Touching any item, will reveal the
actual Physical Card
Ø This will enable that citizen to EDIT his personal data online and click
SUBMIT
Ø Anytime required in future, that citizen can show that YUP photo to any
party
Ø There will be no compulsion for any citizen to use YUP . He may continue
using his
Physical Cards, if he so
===================================================
This is a very broad “ CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK “ – and certainly not comprehensive by any standard
Eg :
Going beyond
merging / aggregating / unifying , all existing physical cards belonging to a
person, what about :
Ø Enabling him to use YUP to create ( for the first time ), an altogether
different card ?
Ø Enabling
a person to create new Voter Card, upon attaining the age of 18 ?
I urge Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasadji to get this examined by some eminent technologists
I suggest that
newly appointed TASK FORCE, headed by Shri Shibulalji, may consider my
suggestion in the context of the following reports :
[ A ]
Sam
Altman’s Worldcoin Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs in Exchange for Cryptocurrency
Worldcoin has designed an orb-shaped device
that would scan a person’s iris to construct a unique personal identifier.
Extract :
Ø “I've been
very interested in things like universal basic income and what's going to
happen to global wealth redistribution and how we can do that better,” Altman
said. “Is there a way we can use technology to do that at global scale?”
Ø The company
aims to help economies transition to crypto-currencies “through a novel
approach: a dedicated hardware device
ensuring both humanness and uniqueness of everybody
signing up, while maintaining
their privacy and the overall transparency of a permission-less blockchain.”
Ø The device
is a silver-colored spherical gizmo the size of a basketball that can be
carried around and used to scan
people's irises in order to ascertain their unique identities, Blania said
Ø According to
Blania, iris-scanning is an essential part of the plan because it can prevent people from trying to register
multiple times to defraud the system.
Ø He's also
aware of the privacy implications of handing over biometric information to a
tiny startup and said Worldcoin will make the process as transparent as
possible so users can see how the data
is used.
He said the iris scan will produce a unique numerical code for each person
and that the image is then deleted and never stored.
[ B ]
GPT-3
Scared You? Meet Wu Dao 2.0: A Monster of 1.75 Trillion Parameters
Extract :
Ø Wu Dao 2.0 is multimodal.
It can learn from text and
images and tackle tasks that
include both types of data (something GPT-3 can’t do). We’re seeing a shift in
the last years from AI systems specialized in managing a single mode of information
towards multimodality
In an article for VentureBeat, Kyle Wiggers emphasized Wu Dao 2.0’s
multimodal capabilities: It has “the ability to perform natural language
processing, text generation, image recognition, and image generation tasks. […
as well as captioning images and creating nearly photorealistic artwork, given
natural language descriptions.”
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IN THE INTERIM :
Dear Shri Santosh Kumar
Gangwarji ,
( Minister for Labour / santoshg@sansad.nic.in
/ santosh.gangwar.bareilly@gmail.com ),
Given the target
date by Supreme Court, you cannot delay the launch of NDUW beyond 31 July –
whereas examination ( by experts of the TASK FORCE ) of the feasibility of my
suggestion will take much longer
But, in the NDUW portal, you can build
features and motivate the employing companies ( by various types of incentives – especially total exemptions from filing of various
“ Employment Related Periodic Returns “ ) which
implement :
From BAD to MAD …………………………[ 01 June 2016 ]
The beauty of this “
Mobile-based Attendance System “ is that
no employer ever need to file ANY return
No COMPLIANCES of any kind as far as your four
LABOUR CODES are concerned !
Such a powerful
INCENTIVE will put the ball in the employers’ court, who will ensure that all
380 million unorganized workers quickly REGISTER on NDUW portal !
With regards,
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Extract :
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