India will see an innovation ecosystem around Aadhaar, says UID architect Nandan Nilekani

India will see an innovation ecosystem around Aadhaar, says UID architect Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

The year 2009 was witness to major transformations. Voice giving way to data, feature phones being replaced by smartphones, desktops yielding to mobile Internet and value-added services from telecom companies moving to applications. That’s the year Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder, took charge of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). In a conversation with R. Sukumar, editor of Mint, at the Mint Cash to Digital summit held in New Delhi, the former UIDAI chairman talks about how Indians are on the cusp of a similar transformation in banking and payments. Edited excerpts:

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