%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Sinking Under Its Own Weight: Case of Aadhaar Mediated Entitlements in India
%+ University of Oslo (UiO)
%A Mukherjee, Arunima
%A Sahay, Sundeep
%Z Part 2: Digital Platforms for Development
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D)
%C Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
%Y Petter Nielsen
%Y Honest Christopher Kimaro
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D
%V AICT-551
%N Part I
%P 472-485
%8 2019-05-01
%D 2019
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_39
%K Aadhaar
%K India
%K Entitlement failures
%K Scott and Sen
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X In this paper, we analyse through a largely conceptual analysis the application of the Aadhaar biometrics identification system in India, now assuming complex proportions, and how that facilitates or not citizen’s entitlement of welfare benefits. The conceptual analysis is informed by the works of James Scott’s Seeing like a State which cautions against such large scale state sponsored schemes ending up as disasters. Amartya Sen’s analysis of famines informs how it is important to focus on the access to the entitlement rather than the entitlement itself, which, potentially can lead to entitlement failures. The conceptual analysis developed helps to critically analyse two case vignettes related to two welfare programmes of the midday meals and the public distribution system. The paper concludes by arguing for the need to critically discussing how Aadhaar can be made to work in practice while supporting broader development objectives, rather than arguing whether Aadhaar is inherently good or bad.
%G English
%Z TC 9
%Z WG 9.4
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%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-02285263
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