Platformland #26
Platformland #26
Explain past, describe the now, and reach into the future
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Platform news
🇮🇳 India is digitising and centralising birth records, plus linking Aadhaar to birth and death registration. See here for a critique. It’s a good example of digitising existing registers through amending existing legislation (the amendments are here).
📦 Amazon says it should not be considered a ‘very large online platform’ under the EU’s digital services act. Amazon says it should not be covered as it is does not make money by advertising. The European Commission says the legislation aims to “cover all platforms that expose their users to content, including the sale of products or services, which can be illegal”.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia is mandating digital ID for banking. Ethiopia's digital identity system is called Fayda and is based on MOSIP.
🇮🇳 Credentials stored in India’s DigiLocker digital wallet can now be copied into Samsung’s Wallet app. Interesting to see the Indian government ending monopoly control over credentials.
🇮🇳 In the midst of a food price spike, Indian central government is distributing cut-price tomatoes via the Open Network for Digital Commerce (think of it as the fulfilment parts of the Amazon Marketplace, operated by a non profit with initial financing from government)
🇪🇪 In Estonia, graveyard databases link to the population register.
Thinking aloud: services that explain past, describe the now, and reach into the future
One of the things that is different about next generation digital services is how they present along a timeline.
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