India’s dream Unique Identity Card project will soon have big names from the world of technology besides Nandan Nilekani who is spearheading the project. In a recent visit to India, Bill Gates, the founder-chairman of Microsoft who is not only the richest person in the world but a great philanthropist as well, expressed his desire that Microsoft would like to play a constructive role in the UIC project.

His Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are on a revolutionary path to make a difference in the healthcare system in the developing countries. Just the way he addressed the challenging issues in the technology-business domain where in he steered his company Microsoft from the scratch in 1975 to a whopping $60billion organization, similarly he felt that there is urgency in healthcare system in the developing countries as children are dying. To save the Gift of God-a child and to provide them with equal opportunity and a level playing field, his thoughts and actions are in sync to bring about a change for the better.

He feels that as technology is important, great governance is a necessary condition too for bringing about any kind of change. He is of the opinion that Unique Identity Card for citizens had been successful in Denmark, Singapore and other Scandinavian countries, so if designed with futuristic applications, it is going to be successful. The objective should be clear as what are we focusing on. That is, we should be aware the kind of data that we are looking forward to get from UIC and how this information can be used.

The 53 year old man, Bill Gates who is filled with energy and enthusiasm is of the notion that people will not hoard vaccines and hence there will not be much difficulty in tracking the amount of money being spent on the project. According to him, health can be quantified and is measurable. He also expressed his dissatisfaction on the stringent measures of US H1B visa laws and green card formalities. He feels that restricting immigrants is not a solution for recession and erecting barriers cannot help recovery. He believes that the greatest challenge is to make internet viable and accessible to all through low cost PCs, community kiosks, computers in schools, WiMax, low cost cell phones and wireless connectivity, besides thrust in advancement of internet plumbing.

From his fortune, this great man has already given $27 billion to help world become a better place to live in through innovation and vaccination. He wishes that there be alternative low-cost new source of energy with minimum environmental degradation.