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Hi Jayanth,

Thanks a lot for your interesting comment.

Interesting to read about the Aadhaar framework. This is indeed exactly the type of (government-backed) digital authentication/identification/signing framework we should all be having. Unfortunately like many other such initiatives, it is a national (in this case India) initiative, which makes it very difficult for internation tech firms to use.

We therefore need a globally acceptation digital ID backed by all countries and governed by the United Nations. Some initiatives like ID2020 and ID4D have already been taken, but there is still a long way to go. Until then national (government) initiatives will continue to increase and some private companies will also make a shot for this market (e.g. the big tech giants, Tulioo, globaliD...).

Will be interesting to see how it evolves, but I don't expect a global digital ID any time soon yet.

Thanks a lot for the interesting comment and feedback. Indeed as I mention in my article, there is a long quest for "micro-payments" and even now technology is not fully mature to fully support the use cases, but am convinced that ultimately it will happen. As for many evolutions, markets don't evolve as quick as people anticipate.