Moving upstream

Moving upstream

IMAGINE someone in Pakistan is standing at a counter this morning. She is being told that the system will not accept her name as it appears on her degree. Her name on the degree is spelled differently, and the database will only accept the name in the format already stored against her identity record. The clerk is not difficult; the field on the digital form will not take it. There is no form for objection and no hearing at which she can explain that both names belong to the same person. In t...

By none@none.com (Salma Khan)