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MarginalizedAadhaar: Access to information in my own language

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(Watch this on YouTube with Closed Captioning [CC] on | Please help translating the captions .) This episode of MarginalizedAadhaar series focuses on the relation between access to information in one's native language with digital identity. How an indigenous-language speaker can understand when the government does not share critical information in their own language? This interview with Sora-language speaker Manjula Bhuyan from Odisha, India tries to uncover this. This short excerpt is from an long interview where Bhuyan shares her experience in obtaining an Aadhaar, the benefits that are linked to it and the challenges. Bhuyan speaks the (Jurai) Sora language and works in farming in her village in the Gajapati district of the Indian state of Odisha. MarginalizedAadhaar is a project led by Subhashish Panigrahi as a part of the Yoti Digital Identity Fellowship.

Directors & creators

Subhashish Panigrahi

Subjects

aadhaar, MarginalizedAadhaar, odisha, sora, saura, india

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