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<\/a><\/p>\nAnother issue raised by Meltem Demirors was that of financial violence – which nowadays trumps physical violence. These coded social protocols exclude people from the financial system due to a number of factors and it was stated that we cannot have human rights in a world with no privacy, or financial access on the Web – we need to have privacy to preserve human rights. As a volunteer with iSpirt, Sanjay has been a key contributor to help create, and evangelise various government APIs, which are collectively referred to as the \u201cIndia Stack\u201d. These APIs have led to a digitisation of various processes, enabling them to become paperless, cashless and intangible. They have taken Indian citizens from 2 digital transactions per person to 25. By reducing the cost of the services, the service providers have been able to expand. For example \u2013 by reducing the cost of opening a bank account to single-digit rupees.<\/p>\n
This then led to questions of identity\u2026 What should be included in someone\u2019s digital identity? These massive companies don\u2019t own our identities, they own identifiers and attributes, making identification possible. But what does it mean to “own everything” about ourselves online? For example the bank looks after our money and it\u2019s their problem if we get hacked. But what would it mean if we got hacked and we were the sole owners of everything about ourselves? What people want according to Glenn Gore is portability.<\/p>\n
Closing of Conference<\/h4>\n
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