Ecobank Fintech Challenge shortlists Paycode among six digital payment startups
The fifth annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge has shortlisted six digital payment startups from across Africa, including Paycode, the South African…
Articles By Ayang Macdonald
Ayang Macdonald is a freelance journalist based in Yaounde, Cameroon. He boasts 10 years of professional experience in journalism in which he has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Buea in South western Cameroon. He is a versatile reporter with interest in ICTs, innovation, digital entrepreneurship, defense and military, politics, economy, health and environment, humanitarian issues and sports.
Texas parents to collect students’ biometrics; Sydney school loo-turns on fingerprints
Parents in Texas have been given the option to collect DNA samples of their children using freely distributed test kits,…
Senior enterprise leaders take roles in digital identity
Digital ID verification firm OCR Labs Global has announced the hire of Joshua Read as new Chief Operating Officer who…
India renews push for national civil registry, Aadhaar enrollment for kids soon nationwide
The federal government of India has re-launched the process to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act which will…
Scaled-up digital ID wallets could improve digital experiences, or risk service disruption
Identity authentication and digital payment services linked to the popular Kakao Talk Messenger App in the republic of South Korea…
US and EU AI regulatory proposals under the microscope
Proposals for a framework in the U.S. and a set of laws in Europe to govern the development and use…
Law on biometric documents issuance passes first reading in Belarus parliament
Members of the House of Representatives of Belarus have given their first nod to a draft law which seeks to…
Philippines distributes 16M biometric ID cards, downloadable version coming soon
Officials of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) say 16.7 million biometric national digital ID cards dubbed PhilID have already been…
Cameroon election agency wants huge ID card backlog cleared ahead of polls
The chairman of Cameroon’s election management body (ELECAM), Abrams Enow Egbe, recently held talks with the delegate general for national…
Nigeria’s Delta State to capture biometrics of 98K pupils as school meal program resumes
After a three-year hiatus, Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is resuming in Delta State, with the capture of…
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