Thread on Billgates connection to #Aadhaar. Does he know enough to comment (of course he knows a lot more, deep intentions, interests). Now that he himself has repeated the fact that, his "charity",WB are interested in it, like to fund the initiatives, lets look at larger picture
Read "Digital Poverty Stack". I will summarize these posts

Part 1 nextbillion.net/nexthought-mon…

Part 2 nextbillion.net/its-the-ecosys…

and add additional context on players.
Note that @India_Stack and Level One Project are parallel initiatives in India and Africa respectively? Why only these two geographies? Why not elsewhere?

Besides the usual guinea pig theory, the other common thing is, these are geographies where "Development finance"
Where market is interested in investing in these geographies, but lack of market enablers is hurting efficiency of investments.

Aadhaar is a scoring / tracking engine, to help lenders sell credit, business sell goods (after knowing about you) and profit from your personal data.
The argument that google only sells ads will work, if these philanthocapitalists restrict their funding to market enabling platforms. But they are greedy, sell surveillance to govt in exchange for business friendly regulatory policy
That too will be toleratable at some level, because people can get together and lobby against regulators (Ex:- SaveTheInternet), may not always succeed, but still stand a chance.
They will go to any extent -- of killing constitutional institutions (Parliaments, Judiciary), buy media, harass protesters (Twitter trolling is least of all), Hijack elections, undermine democracy.
#Aadhaar is not just about privacy, data protection. its about saving democratic fabric. Do your bit to save your country from men hijacking them to create unaccountable structures replacing existing ones. ##
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