UIDBA: Unique Identity & Biometric Based Architecture for E-governance Solutions

In order to replace existing business processes within Governments with transparent and accountable technology driven transactions, implementation of Digital Signing technology is imperative. Absence of digital signing during Government transactions will make such transactions repudiable, thus making it difficult to fix accountability. In spite of the fact that digital signing is an essential requirement for implementation of any e-governance solution, its use in large-scale Government information and communications technology (ICT) implementations is negligible. We did a study of a popular financial management information system (FMIS) in India, to identify the reasons behind such low level acceptance of digital signing technology in Government ICT implementations. This paper is a culmination of the results yielded by our study and a solution derived for it. This paper proposes an architecture, which focus on fingerprint driven digital signing, using Aadhaar Authentication API provided by The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).