UNHCR’s biometric LISA kiosk enabling self-service refugee identity verification
UNHCR’s Regional Bureau for the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes (EHAGL) has begun piloting a new…
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Ghana to add 16k digital govt services as part of $200M World Bank project
The drive to expand digital government services in Ghana is continuing with the government aiming to add about 16,000 new…
Users lament as Nigeria’s digital ID portal suffers downtime
In the past weeks, many holders of Nigeria’s National Identification Number (NIN) have complaint about their inability to access the…
Estonia adds identity verification to new digital government app
Estonia has launched an identity verification feature for the country’s digital government app to make it easier to access services….
Sri Lanka wants feedback on Sovereign Cloud Strategy
The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has launched a public consultation on a Cloud Policy and…
Kuwait gov’t considers more biometrics use in citizenship claims
The Kuwaiti government is set to approve key amendments to the Kuwaiti Nationality Law to curb the rise of fraudulent…
STMicroelectronics unveils system-on-chip for contactless cards
STMicroelectronics has launched STPay-Topaz-2, its system-on-chip for contactless payment cards. Building on the more than three billion STPay ready-to-use solutions…
South Africa Home Affairs requests $618M budget to advance digital transformation
South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber has tabled a budget request of 11 billion rand (about US$618 million)…
Italy gets offline digital wallet access as country advances digitalization
Italy is seeing a seismic shift in its civil status registers as it leaves behind analogue, paper-based recording keeping in…
Credas launches digital wallet, payments as property sector adapts to UK changes
Credas has launched a digital wallet to carry out compliance checks with reusable credentials, starting in the real estate sector,…
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