Kalam's digital dream for India

President Kalam entertains a vision about politics in India that is very similar to the goals of Viplav from the point of view of the people. They should be able to gather data on the educational qualifications, employment records, sources of income, and police crime records of the politicians. People will even be able to cast votes from their homes without going to the poll booths.

Clearly, IT and automation can bring in transparency and reduce corruption. eGovernance just not only mean filing of income taxes online!

I do not however agree with the use of an artificial intelligence software to predict the chances of success of politicians. Why use computers for this, when the people themselves constitute a global brain?