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In News,
- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed a new model of “Federated Digital Identities” under the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0.
India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA)
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Objectives and need of InDEA 2.0
- The boundaries between functions, jurisdictions and public-private organizations are getting blurred due to increasing interdependencies and the need was felt for citizen-centric approaches to designing digital services, as opposed to organization-centric approaches.
- More rational planning of IT investments, cost savings due to reusable and interoperable systems, and better architectures designed faster.
- To the citizens, it means a more holistic and seamless experience across organizations. And to the industry, it holds out the immense promise of innovation.
- The InDEA 2.0 framework is useful to the policymakers in the government, and architects and system designers in the public and private sector.
About InDEA 2.0
- InDEA 2.0 proposes a model of Federated Digital Identities that seeks to optimize the number of digital identities that a citizen needs to have.
- Under the new model,a citizen’s multiple digital IDs — from PAN and Aadhaar to driving licence and passport numbers — can be interlinked, stored, and accessed via one unique ID.
- Citizens can use the digital ID “for availing other third-party services through authentication and consented eKYC”.
- It would also serve as a key to a registry where all different state and Central identities could be stored.
- Under the new model,a citizen’s multiple digital IDs — from PAN and Aadhaar to driving licence and passport numbers — can be interlinked, stored, and accessed via one unique ID.
- It enables Governments and private sector enterprises to design IT architectures that can span beyond their organizational boundaries and enable the delivery of holistic and integrated services to the customers.
- It consists of a set of principles and architectural patterns that inform, guide, and enable the development of large digital systems, with a focus on the public sector
- It promotes the evolution of digital ecosystems.
Significance
- It would eliminate the need for a repeated verification process.The model empowers the citizen by putting her in control of these identities and providing her with the option of choosing which one to use for what purpose.
- It enables establishing such a right balance in all the ongoing architectural initiatives and accelerates the realization of the vision of Digital India.
Criticisms
- Critics may raise issues with digital security, and an umbrella identity could pose more risks towards exposing critical data.
Source: IE
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