[BigDataSur] India’s Aadhaar: The datafication of anti-poverty programmes and its implications

By Silvia Masiero, Loughborough University The notion of datafication implies rendering existing objects, actions and processes into data. Widely studied in the field of business intelligence, datafication is known to restructure consumer behaviour and the functioning of markets in multiple ways. But a less-widely researched aspect pertains to the datafication of public welfare and social protection programmes, … Continue reading [BigDataSur] India’s Aadhaar: The datafication of anti-poverty programmes and its implications