Thursday, February 9, 2012

India: UID Costs Plummet as Accuracy Remains High

An unparalleled exercise (The Times of India)
♦ 99.86% of the population can be enrolled and uniquely identified. The other 0.14% is enrolled manually.
♦ 99.965% of all duplicate enrollments are correctly caught.
♦ A single deduplication originally cost Rs 20, now it's Rs 2.75 (from forty cents to six cents, US)
♦ The cost of an enrolment station dropped from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 1 lakh in one year. (from $6,060 to $2,020)

Much more interesting detail at the link.