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Datafying anti-poverty programmes: implications for data justice
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This paper seeks to illuminate the significance of datafication for anti-poverty programmes, meaning social protection schemes designed specifically for poor people. The conversion of beneficiary populations into machine-readable data enables two core functions of social protection, those of recognising entitled beneficiaries and assigning entitlements connected to each anti-poverty scheme. Drawing on the incorporation of Aadhaar, India’s biometric population database, in the national agenda for social protection, we unpack a techno-rational perspective that crafts datafication as a means to enhance the effectiveness of anti-poverty schemes. Nevertheless, narratives collected in the field show multiple forms of data injustice on recipients, underpinned by Aadhaar’s functionality for a shift of the social protection agenda from in-kind subsidies to cash transfers. Based on such narratives the paper introduces a politically embedded view of data, framing datafication as a transformative force that contributes to reforming existing anti-poverty schemes.
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“First, as a datafier of the population of Indian residents, Aadhaar converts individual recipients of programs such as the PDS into machine-readable data.”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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“By its own nature, this process allows the automatization of two functions of the scheme: the recognition of entitled vs. non-entitled users and the assignation of entitlements according to data (Masiero and Das 2019).”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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“To our question of whether they would welcome a transition from the current in-kind subsidies to cash transfers, recipients provided quasi-unanimous negative responses, motivated by three main reasons.”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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“A first limitation, of a legal nature, shows how the Aadhaar-based PDS—while remaining within the boundaries of constitutionality—confines access to enrolled residents, effectively subordinating the right-to-food to registration in a biometric identification scheme.”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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“In terms of the informational aspect, the limitation lies in the incompleteness of information received by PDS beneficiaries on the transformative goal of Aadhaar.”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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“A design-related limit relates to the finding that the Aadhaar-based PDS focuses on inclusion errors, while biometric recognition technology leaves exclusion errors unattended.”
From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Masiero and Das 2019
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Metadata
- Authors
- Masiero, S., & Das, S.
- Affiliations
- Loughborough University (GB)
- International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Masiero, Silvia
- ORCID
- Masiero, Silvia
- Venue
- Information, Communication & Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-05-13
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 916-933
- ISSN
- 1369-118X (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4462
- OpenAlex
- W2946326213
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 28.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Information Communication & Society (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Development › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
- Keywords
- datafication, anti-poverty programmes, social protection, data justice, Aadhaar, biometric identification, cash transfers, India
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