New Delhi, July 24: Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, is keen to partner India in a project to issue Unique Identification to each citizen, its chairman Bill Gates said today.
“Microsoft wants to be part of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project,” he said here at a joint event with Nasscom.
Gates will meet UIDAI chairman Nandan M Nilekani, who was till recently co-chairman of the country’s second largest software exporter, to take the possible association forward.
Nilekani had only yesterday assumed charge of UIDAI and expressed confidence that his team would be able to roll out the first set of identity numbers within 12-18 months.
The project would serve as an enabling infrastructure for other identification schemes and will conform to different applications.
–PTI