Google Ready to help India in UID Project

[IReporter]

Internet search giant Google today said it will be "happy to help" India in implementing a project to provide unique identity numbers to citizens, if asked.

"It would be very arrogant for us to say that we can help in the project. If the UID authorities feel that Google can add value to it, then we will be very happy to help. But we are not proactively approaching the government to be a part of it. It's up to them to decide how we can help," Google India MD Shailesh Rao told reporters here.

Google's rival Yahoo had yesterday offered to be part of the project headed by Nandan Nilekani.

Talking about the expertise Google can bring to the table, Rao said, "At Google, we are good at software development, hosting data and language technologies. We run our product on more than eight regional languages in India.

"If the project has a mobile dimension then also we can help. At Google, we have developed voice-based search capabilities," Rao added.

The UID project aims to provide a unique identification numbers to the country's over one billion people.

source : Zee news

 

[Tigerr]

this is a good news that Google is ready to extend its hand to help India achieve its task for providing unique identification numbers. india needs high technology service to achieve its goal as india has vast population and assigning unique identities could be a challenge as it needs high proficiency in storing and organising data.

 

[Idiotbox]

india would get a great helping hand from google in making the Unique Identification Project as grand success. google has always been efficient and impeccable and thus it can manage well to allocate unique identities of every person in india and also maintain the database of so many people and process it in no time. achieving the goal of successful UID will move india greatly to developed country