8753 - Maiden hackathon on tech ideas - Telegraph India

Maiden hackathon on tech ideas - State to host 24-hour marathon software brainstorming session in Nov.

A.S.R.P. Mukesh If Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expecting the Indo-US Hackathon - a 15-hour marathon software coding session scheduled at the Google headquarters on September 26 - to churn out some best IT solutions for his pet Digital India and Skill India missions, chief minister Raghubar Das will be banking on a similar endeavour to put Jharkhand on the technology map. Come November 2, the state information department will hold a 24-hour hackathon, bringing together 100 best brains from across the world under one roof to produce IT-enabled solutions to meet the challenges for Digital Jharkhand project. For the understanding of the layman, hackathon is an event, wherein computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, graphic designers and interface designers collaborate intensively on software projects on a given day. It is also known as hack day, hackfest or codefest. The capital event has been named Aadhaar Hackathon that will focus on devising softwares, IT services and apps. Sources in the state IT department told The Telegraph that the dates were finalised on Wednesday evening. As of now, the event is to be held at the newly built auditorium at Project Building. However, the venue, according to sources, might change to the lone five-star hotel in the state capital depending on the sponsorships that the government is able to manage. So far, telecom major Airtel has agreed in principal to offer sponsorship but is yet to confirm anything in writing. "Aadhaar Hackathon will kick off at 2pm on November 2 and will end at 3pm the next day. The whole idea is to have a gamut of best IT brains, software companies, agencies and organisations working in the field of technology to brainstorm, design and suggest softwares, apps and other tech products for Jharkhand. It can be related to governance, empowerment, easy day-to-day life et al, but should be useful for the state and its people," said state IT director U.P. Sah. He added that they would shortly start sending invitations to agencies like Nasscom, CII, IT majors, independent top-notch IT experts, among others, for the marathon coding exercise. The department has already started scouting for a logo for the hackfest, launching an online competition on Thursday evening to tap the best designs worldwide for the upcoming mega event. For this, it is accepting registrations and designs on the portal, mgov.jharkhand.gov.in, which chief minister Das launched last week as a part of a slew of IT services in the state. "The best design submitted on the website will be used to prepare the logo for the hackathon. The chosen designer will bag a tablet as a token of appreciation," Sah said. According to him, they were looking forward to over 100 guests from outside besides officials and experts from the state. "This is the first time that we will be holding such an event. Recently, Bangalore held its own hackathon. The trend is fast catching up to get all brains under one roof to discuss, code and decode IT solutions at a marathon pace within the set time period," he said.

8189 - AngelPrime & HackerEarth declare Aadhaar hackathon’s winners - Medianama

AngelPrime & HackerEarth declare Aadhaar hackathon’s winners

By Sneha Johari ( @thejunebug ) on June 26, 2015

VC fund AngelPrime has declared the winners of its online Aadhaar hackathon which was held on June 6 and 7. 

AngelPrime said that Aadhaar APIs like biometric, eKYC, demographic, OTP and OTP eKYC authentications were exposed to developers along with the provision of USB based biometric sensors and their Windows and Android SDKs from Morpho. Khosla Labs also opened up the APIs of its Aadhaar Bridge product, which could be used to integrate the services on the developers’ apps.

Student ID verification app: The winner of the hackathon is the True Scholar app, developed by Bangalore’s Anantha Padmanabha, which uses Aadhaar APIs to verify student identity. It provides a central database for all exam results, online exam registrations and also claims to prevent impersonation during exams.

Document-less verification through Aadhaar: The first runner up is an app called Aadhaarical, developed by Pankaj Chhabra, Supriya Saini, Ishrat Khan and Sachin Arora from Delhi, which enables document-less verification in real time via Aadhaar cards. The app also claims use cases for reporting vehicle theft, tracking missing vehicles, challan issuance, online e-document access to resident and traffic police and car towing notifications when a car is parked in a no parking zone.

Local partnerships for social marketplace: The second runners up position is tied between three teams. The first is an app called Samaadhaar, a social marketplace which claims to connect non-internet users in India to products and service providers through local partnerships. Developed by Dawar Dedmari , Brijesh Masrani, Mahendra Liya and Manan Saleem Beg from Bangalore, the app also provides personalised content and info to users based on an Aadhaar verification.

Driving license through Aadhaar verification: The second team Sumanyu Soniwal, Shubham Gupta, Soubhik Saha from Agra, Lucknow and Ghaziabad, created an app called Aadhaaric License which aims at letting people obtain a driving license through a free online procedure by using their Aadhaar card. The third team of Thiyagarajan, Rajeef, Priyanka and Ashir from Bangalore developed an app called 18-plus which, paired with a fingerprint scanner, lets organisations verify people’s ages.

AngelPrime said that over 5,200 developers from Indians living in and outside the country participated in the hackathon, forming over 1,600 teams who built products surrounding the themes of payments, productivity, government benefits, financial services, FMCG, healthcare and online to offline.

The applications were required to use Aadhaar APIs and were judged on the basis of code quality and ‘sophistication’ of the app by Dr Parmod Varma (Chief Architect of UIDAI), Arvind Gupta (BJP convenor and national head of IT), Ravi Gururaj (Chairman of Nasscom Product Council) and Sanjay Swamy (Managing Partner at AngelPrime). UIDAI volunteers Raj Mashruwala, Sanjay Jain and Dr Vivek Raghavan screened and rated the submissions, shortlisting 11 final teams. The hackathon was administered through the HackerEarth Sprint, a tool developed by HackerEarth for conducting large scale online hackathons.

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8125 - News Roundup: Novelty, Integration, Innovation - Find Biometrics

News Roundup: Novelty, Integration, Innovation

Posted on June 8, 2015

Last week at FindBiometrics the news was international in scope, with top stories from India, China, Nigeria, Canada and the U.S. New integrations, new implementations and new inventions kept the biometrics conversation dynamic and exciting as we began Healthcare Month.

Novelty and Innovation

Biometric facial recognition is finding its way into San Antonio animal shelters with new technology that can be used to identify lost dogs. It’s a novel concept that’s actually proving to be quite innovative, something that can also be said of Google’s big news from last week: that it has patented iris-scanning contact lens technology.

Speaking of innovation, we received update on the upcoming Windows 10 operating system, which will feature multimodal biometric support, and Fingerprint Cards let known its involvement in developing the fingerprint technology used in Android M. We took a look at how facial recognition is being explored in detecting pain, and in congratulatory news, Sonovation CTO Rainer Schmitt received an award from IEEE for pioneering ultrasound based fingerprint biometrics.

Dog Face Biometrics Market Continues Expansion

Facial Biometrics Could Help Doctors Manage Pain

Iris-Scanning Contact Lens Patented By Google

Windows 10 to Feature Advanced Biometric Interaction

FPC Helped Develop Android M’s Fingerprint System

Sonavation CTO Receives Industry Award

Payments and Banking

In payments news, last week we reported on PayPal’s support of Touch ID for user authentication while Credence ID partnered with ADO Technologies to deploy new banking solutions in Panama and Columbia. In China, meanwhile, a university has developed what is being hailed as the world’s first biometric ATM.

Facial Recognition ATM to Debut in China

Credence ID Teams With Developer For Biometric Banking

PayPal Announces Touch ID Support

Biometrics International

On an international scale last week, the industry was talking about border control and privacy. Canada is expanding its biometric screening processes, the American DHS is testing new border control tech, and MorphoTrust held an enrollment event at a golf championship.

Outside of background checks and border protection, national ID made headlines. In India, an Aadhaar hackathon will be taking advantage of Morpho (Safran) biometric technology. NEXT Biometrics announced the its intentions in targeting the Indian market through a new partnership with AqTronics and EyeVerify got a reseller to bring its Eyeprint ID tech to the Turkish market.

Canadian Gov’t Seeks to Expand Biometric Screening

Morpho Lends Tech to Aadhaar Hackathon

Credence ID to Authenticate Nigerian Students

Olcsan Scores EyeVerify Re-seller Rights

PreCheck Convenience Offers Relief from Frustrations of Golf

DHS Tests Biometric Border Screening

NEXT Biometrics Aims at India With AqTronics

Integrations Make it Happen

Finally, in integration news last week, Integrated Biometrics’ Columbo sensor was chosen for a new access control solution. BioSSL, in the meantime, announced that it is integrating Card_Labs’ Biometric Bank Card into its secure platform.

Biometric Card Complements Web Security Platform

Access Control Specialist Integrates Columbo Sensor

Stay posted to FindBiometrics this week as we continue to bring you the best in identity management news. Be sure to follow us on Twitter so you don’t miss a beat.

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June 8, 2015 – by Peter B. Counter

8115 - UIDAI, Nasscom hold 48 hr Aadhaar hackathon - Financial Express

UIDAI, Nasscom hold 48 hr Aadhaar hackathon

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in partnership with National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) 10,000 startups program supported by Angel Prime held one of the biggest ever Aadhaar hackathon in India.

By: fe Bureau | June 6, 2015 10:51 pm

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in partnership with National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) 10,000 startups program supported by Angel Prime held one of the biggest ever Aadhaar hackathon in India, to encourage and promote applications based on the Aadhaar system.

Around 5000 developers and enthusiasts are participating in a 48-hour online hackathon that is being conducted at three offline venues which are the Nasscom startup warehouse and Microsoft Accelerator in Bangalore and the PayTM premises in New Delhi.

These participants aim at developing applications in areas like banking, healthcare and other public services, utilising the Aadhaar platform.

Nasscom 10,000 start-ups initiative is mandated by the government of India towards Aadhaar Diffusion Project to build on the start-up innovation ecosystem, engage with various stakeholders in developers community, government and other institutions to adopt the fast growing Aadhaar platform of single identification system.

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First Published on June 7, 2015 12:02 am

8102 - Biggest Aadhaar hackathon begins - TNN

Biggest Aadhaar hackathon begins

Shilpa Phadnis, TNN | Jun 6, 2015, 03.38AM IST

BANGALURU: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Khosla Labs, Nasscom and AngelPrime have teamed up for what it calls the biggest ever Aadhaar hackathon, an effort to create useful applications based on the Aadhaar platform. 

Nearly 5,000 participants will be part of the 48-hour coding marathon that begins Saturday. 

The hackathon will be simultaneously conducted at three offline venues - Nasscom's 10,000 Startup Warehouse and Microsoft Ventures office in Bengaluru and the Paytm facility in Delhi. 

Participants are encouraged to build applications in areas like financial services, payments, healthcare, FMCG and those that help people to benefit from government schemes. The government has already initiated Aadhaar-based direct benefit transfer for cooking gas and Aadhaar-based biometric attendance system. 

"With over 850 million enrolled in Aadhaar, it makes a strong use case to develop innovative applications on top of it," said Sanjay Swamy, managing partner in VC fund AngelPrime. HackerEarth's platform will power the hackathon. Winners will get prizes up to Rs 2 lakh. 

Ravi Gururaj, chairman of the Nasscom Product Council, said that the hackathon would provide an opportunity for developers to work on the next set of applications as Aadhaar had reached a tipping point with its vast enrollment base. Nasscom and UIDAI have launched what they call the 'Aadhaar ecosystem diffusion project' to encourage startups to develop an app economy around the Aadhaar platform in the commercial domain. 

"The idea is to create excitement among developers to use the new digital identity platform," said Sanjay Jain, entrepreneur-in-residence in Khosla Labs. 

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8098 - Morpho to support online Aadhaar Hackathon - Planet Biometrics

Morpho to support online Aadhaar Hackathon 

04 June 2015 16:45 GMT

French biometrics firm Morpho has revealed that it will power an online hackathon devoted to India’s unique, biometrics-backed Aadhaar ID numbers.

Morpho will provide a biometric sensor for the event, to help the developers to create applications around biometric authentication.

The event aims is to encourage and promote the development of applications that utilize the open Aadhaar application program interfaces (APIs).

The online Hackathon is open to participants across India and will require them to take an online entry test to ensure they meet minimum eligibility criterion.

The event will see close to 4.500 participants indulge in a non-stop two-day coding marathon. On 6-7 June, developers will build products under any of the following categories: Government Benefits, Financial Services (banking, insurance, and brokerage), Payments, Healthcare, Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), and Online + Offline (O2O).

The Aadhaar Hackathon will be administered via the HackerEarth Sprint, a unique tool developed by HackerEarth for conducting large-scale online Hackathons. All applications will be required to prove the successful use of the Aadhaar APIs and will be judged automatically for quality of code and added value of the application. A team of experts will judge the top five applications in each category and pick one winner from each category on 8 June.

“The Online Aadhaar Hackathon will provide a platform to developers in India to build applications around the Aadhaar architecture. Such applications will not only help the uptake of Aadhaar authentication, but also lead to a faster and smarter delivery of payments and trusted services,” said Sanjeev Shriya, SVP India at Morpho, and Managing Director, Smart Chip Limited.

The Indian government first unveiled the colossal, one-of-a-kind Aadhaar project in September 2009 as a way of raising working and living standards and offering all residents a unique, undisputable identity. Morpho began issuing Aadhaar numbers in August 2010. Today, with almost 1 million applications processed daily, over 800 million identity numbers have been issued.

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7213 - Smart, young startups develop apps which use Aadhaar for verification - Economic Times

Smart, young startups develop apps which use Aadhaar for verification

By Krithika Krishnamurthy, Malavika Murali & Peerzada Abrar, ET Bureau | 15 Jan, 2015, 12.47PM IST

BENGALURU: The makers of Aadhaar are looking past the stiff-collared professionals to young technologists clad in casual attire, to be the saving-grace of the world's largest identity database. 

Last week, a group of 140 people mostly entrepreneurs, IT professionals and students - thronged the country's first hackathon dedicated to innovating the Aadhaar platform. 

While most of the participants looked at using the biometric profile of citizens prepared by the Unique Identification Authority of India ( UIDAI) under the Aadhaar project for authentication for government services, Varun Rajamane, a 12th grader, was looking at a more realistic problem: If you can have attendance apps for government employees, why not one for universities? With that, one could analyse attendance, figure which are the classes that students bunk the most and find out why. 

For instance, the staffers could strategically place an interesting class post lunch and push the heavy concepts to early morning. 

"It's an app to improve the education system in India," said Rajamane, who studies at Indus International School and the youngest hacker present at the hackathon. 

It is people like him that the authorities are rooting for. "The platform is capable of doing millions of transactions and these transactions can happen by more and more apps being developed. We have to have a large number of stakeholders," said Vijay S Madan, directorgeneral and mission director of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). "We will be a catalyst to pro vide technical support and fi nancial support." 

Aadhaar is a 12-digit individ ual identification number is sued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on behalf of the Indian govern ment. 

"You cannot understate the importance of that 12th grade kid who comes up with the idea, because it is completely out-of-the-box and no one's told him you have to think like this," said Srikanth Nadha muni, the chief executive offi cer and cofounder of Khosla Labs, where the hackathon was conducted in collaboration with IT lobby group Nasscom

At a time when women's safety has become an issue for transportation providers, 24year-old IT professional Asmita Metrewar was building an application that could retrieve background information of a driver from multiple sources and present it to the passenger before boarding the vehicle. 

Husband-and-wife duo Abhijit and Madhu f banti Bhattacharjee, who both work at a technology company , are working to enable doc t tors and patients access healthcare data t through Aadhaar. The applications also aimed at giving hidden insights about the health of the country . c "Our goal is to launch a startup and provide this application as a service," said Madhubanti Bhattacharjee, 33. 

Many students across the country , who pars ticipated in the hackathon, are also planning to turn their ideas into startups. Naresh Kommuri, 21, and Aneesh Kumar, 20, who study engineering at IIIT Nuzvid, travelled all the way from Andhra Pradesh to make an t application that will bring transparency and efficiency in public distribution system. 

This included addressing the problem of I bogus cards, diversion of grains to black s market and bifurcation of fair-price shops. 3 Twenty-four-year old software engineers f Akhil Gundawar and Aman Gupta at online r payment company PayPal were building an c application to enable passengers to book and t cancel train tickets and refund the money in real time, based on a technology used in the s airline industry . 

"We now have the technology , the critical mass of enrollments and the right political support, to carry such hackathons forward," said Ravi Gururaj, chairman of the Nasscom Product Council. A senior executive of Yodlee, an American inancial solutions provider, who requested anonymity , developed an application with wo other employees to crack the tedious ask of loan application approvals. 

"Regardless of whether the application gets selected, it will be implemented in our ompany ," said the executive whose company offers solutions to banks, small and medium businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. "It's a win-win situation for us," he aid. 

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5932 - Khosla Labs, AngelPrime to hold Aadhaar hackathons - TNN

Khosla Labs, AngelPrime to hold Aadhaar hackathons

TNN | Oct 31, 2014, 05.38AM IST

Khosla Labs and AngelPrime will be hosting the first two legs of an Aadhaar hackathon to encourage startups to develop an app economy around it.

BANGALORE: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi backing Aadhaar, it has regenerated interest among developers to build apps using the platform. Khosla Labs and AngelPrime will be hosting the first two legs of an Aadhaar hackathon to encourage startups to develop an app economy around it.

"We will teach people to integrate with Aadhaar and they should then be able to build an app over the next 24 hours. We haven't defined the problem statement and have kept it sector-agnostic," said Srikanth Nadhamuni, CEO of Khosla Labs. 

Khosla Labs was set up by Vinod Khosla and Nadhamuni in 2012 as an innovation lab to focus on solving large-scale problems. The lab will shortlist 50 ideas. The second leg of the hackathon would be hosted by Bangalore-based seed fund and incubator AngelPrime that's run by serial entrepreneurs Sanjay Swamy, Bala Parthasarathy and Sripati Acharya.

"We will conduct the hackathon in the next quarter. The idea is to explore the diversity in application development. I would like developers to build apps around school attendance registry for teachers, around healthcare and the financial sector," Swamy said.

Last year, IT industry body Nasscom and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) came together to launch what they call the 'Aadhaar ecosystem diffusion project' to encourage startups to develop an app economy around the Aadhaar platform. Using Aadhaar's cloud-based technology would make delivery of services scalable and effective.

Nandan Nilekani, who spearheaded the Aadhaar project, has noted in the past that when the US government launched global positioning system (GPS) in the 1990s, it was only for military purposes, but in the 2000s it was made available for commercial purposes and today the GPS economy has become a half-a-billion dollar economy. A similar phenomenon is expected with Aadhaar. UIDAI has enrolled 700 million people under Aadhaar so far.