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AngelPrime, a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Bengaluru, and Nasscom, in collaboration with UIDAI, will host the first of its kind online ‘Aadhaar Application Hackathon’ in June this year. The hackathon aims to encourage and promote the development of applications using the Aadhaar application programme interfaces (APIs).
In order to qualify for the non-stop two-day coding marathon, the participants will have to take an online entry test. They can build products in categories like government benefits, financial services, payments, healthcare, FMCG and Online + Offline (O2O).
“Aadhaar was designed as a platform both for government applications as well as innovative applications from diverse developers. The online authentication as well as the electronic KYC capability has the potential to put India at the forefront of service delivery transformation,” Nandan Nilekani, former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), said in a statement.
Added Ravi Gururaj, chairman, Nasscom Product Council: “This is a positive and important initiative towards uti- lising technology for effective and scalable delivery of services. The Aadhaar Application Hackathon will enable a vibrant technology ecosystem that brings together key stakeholders to build on the identity infrastructure and create applications in areas like education, healthcare and payments.”
Developers can choose to participate from their homes or can walk into any of the offline venues the organisers will announce in due course. Aadhaar APIs like biometric authentication, biometric eKYC, demographic authentication, OTP Authentication and OTP eKYC will be exposed to all developers, it added.
