‘India’s Aadhaar rivals growth of Windows, Android, Facebook’

India’s Aadhaar identity system rivals the growth of other platform innovations such as Windows, Android or Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said.

Nadella, in his book Hit Refresh, which was released during the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference, has praised India’s leap forward in the digital and technological arena.

“Aadhaar now has scaled to over 1 billion people, rivaling the growth of other platform innovations such as Windows, Android or Facebook,” the 50-year-old wrote in his book that hit the book stores on Tuesday.

He praised the creation of the new digital ecosystem IndiaStack. It is a set of APIs (application programming interface) that allows governments, businesses, start-ups and developers to utilise an unique digital infrastructure to solve India’s hard problems towards paperless, and cashless service delivery. presence- “China strategically used the global supply chain and their own domestic market to amplify their comparative advantage and bootstrap their economic growth,” the India-born CEO noted. “The combination of industrial policy, public sector investment, and entrepreneurial energy is what many other countries will also look to replicate from China’s success. I see the beginnings of this in India with the creation of the new digital SATYA NADELLA, ecosystem known IndiaStack,” Nadella said.

“India is leapfrogging from once being an infrastructurepoor country to now leading in digital technology. IndiaStack ushers in a presence-less, cashless, paperless economy for all its citizens,” he said.

In his book, Nadella wrote that on a trip to Bengaluru he engaged in a conversation with Nandan Nilekani about IndiaStack and its future road Microsoft CEO as map. “Nandan is the legendary founder of Infosys, who went on to create a new start-up working with the Indian GovernmentAadhaar-the identity system that is at the center of IndiaStack,” he said. Nadella has also mentioned about Enlightiks, a start-up that was acquired by Practo, a leading e-health company in India.

“I met the founder of Enlightiks on the same trip to Bengaluru. They are using the latest cloud technology and Artificial Intelligence from Microsoft to create a state-ofthe-art health care diagnostics service that can, for example, detect an Atrial fibrillation event before it happens because of the rich data going from the personal device of the patient directly to the cloud,” he said.