has been the principle on which the developer community has thrived he said this approach works well in technology it means you are slow but also that you are a lot more mature and innovative the government has got this aspect right by opening up secure apis to nationalscale projects and systems but while they have provided such building blocks they have already decided the path to meet goals like financial inclusion mobile apps like bhim bharat interface for money are becoming the default mode of reaching the masses many observers agree with the smartphone as a medium for india but developers feel web browsers are more secure than apps jonnalagadda cites a 50p session everyone can see your credit card details seriously where the speaker arnav gupta described the flow of the web as independent websites that cant actually communicate with each other as against this every function of a mobile app is a subset of the parent app so whatever password you type for one function can be visible to the parent which never happens on the web jonnalagadda said if security is defined by the fact that it is tested against being broken a mobile app is trusted on the basis of goodwill for developers this is a shitty way to do technology it bothers the heck out of him when a security model assumes goodwill because government wants an app also solutions need a decentralised approach from governing bodies like local municipalities independent budgets and decisionmaking can lead to stronger links between government and local service providers there are exceptions to this like singapore a city nation but in larger developed countries like the united states local government bodies are stronger than in india here we are getting even more centralised over time jonnalagadda said it makes the government look like a monolith in the eyes of developers how can the two be compatible we havent found a solution yetconnecting tissue more competition leads to more choice for customers lesser surveillance greater cybersecurity resilience and lower prices said sunil abraham executive director centre for internet and society the only concern about the upi infrastructure he added is that it will become a monopoly in welfarescheme transactions it is a fair argument based on a school of thought about the aadhaar mafia and relevant to government hackathons like the ones hosted by npci in february last year many of the techies who worked on building the aadhaar platform are active in ushering developer interest in government swamy of prime ventures for example is also a cofounder of ezetap mobile solutions that integrates payment acceptance srikanth nadhamuni ceo of khosla labs has also cofounded novopay an aadhaarbased solution that empowers authorised shopkeepers to receive and give cash nandan nilekani the foundingchairman of uidai is a member of a 13person committee headed by andhra pradesh chief minister chandrababu naidu to implement digital payment systems in india the aadhaar mafia represent the first generation of techies in india to work