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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.

 

Incode, Finnovant, Ping Identity add talent in business development, research

Biometrics and digital identity technology providers including Incode, Finnovant and Ping Identity have added new expertise to their executive ranks,…

 

Reported AI-based emotion recognition by Zoom irks rights advocates

Reports that video communications giant Zoom is planning to develop an artificial intelligence-based system to monitor and analyze the emotions…

 

Biden urged to consider federal digital identity framework

United States President Joe Biden has been advised to consider putting in place a nationwide digital identity framework as one…

 

Stakeholders review Ethiopia’s proposed digital ID legislative framework

The draft Public Proclamation of Ethiopia’s Digital Identification Program has come under review during the second in a series of…

 

Grants to investigate digital ID issues, COVID surveillance tech launched

The Africa-China Reporting Project (ACRP), in alliance with two of its partners (Paradigm Initiative and Omidyar Network), has unveiled a…

 

Nigeria’s biometric voter system detects over 1M invalid entries

Nigeria’s National Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that more than one million enrollments on the biometric Register of Voters,…

 

FIDO Alliance preparing more authentication professionals for passwordless future

The FIDO Alliance has announced that a new test window is open for experts willing to become FIDO Certified authentication…

 

Digital ID and biometrics among three Australia IT test project components awarded AU$20M

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs is due to pay out AU$20 million (approximately US$14.8 million) to fund test activities for…

 

Nametag expands biometric ID document verification capabilities, certified for data security

Nametag says companies using its ‘Sign in with ID’ selfie biometric solution can now ensure digital identity authentication for account…

 

Ukraine and Estonia show government digital ID leadership

Ukraine is making changes to its government-run digital ID app to support people dealing with the chaos in the war-torn…

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