In 2009, Nandan Nilekani’s team faced a computer science problem with no precedent; how Aadhaar became a billion-person engineering feat
How Aadhaar solved a billion-person biometric computing challenge In 2009, when the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was formed, the task before its founding team, led by Nandan Nilekani, went far beyond creating another national identity database. India needed a system capable of enrolling more than a billion people while ensuring that one person…
