2018_07_14_vijayawada_033e
Our tour of Linux in India began at a fertilizer shop in a village on the outskirts of Vijayawada, a small (still more than a million people) city in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh. Growing rice requires fertilizer—a lot of it, from the looks of the store. We were guided there by friends with the Omidyar Foundation to see Aadhaar at work. Aadhaar is India's biometric personal identity system for more than a billion of the country's citizens—by far the largest of its kind. This gentleman is showing his own card in the fertilizer shop where the system was demonstrated for us.
2018_07_14_vijayawada_033e
Our tour of Linux in India began at a fertilizer shop in a village on the outskirts of Vijayawada, a small (still more than a million people) city in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh. Growing rice requires fertilizer—a lot of it, from the looks of the store. We were guided there by friends with the Omidyar Foundation to see Aadhaar at work. Aadhaar is India's biometric personal identity system for more than a billion of the country's citizens—by far the largest of its kind. This gentleman is showing his own card in the fertilizer shop where the system was demonstrated for us.