Europe needs decentralized digital identity infrastructure, policy paper argues
Over the past years, European nations have made significant progress in digital identity: The EU has established eIDAS 2.0, Switzerland…
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Vietnam targets 2035 for fully digital citizen–government interactions
Vietnam is going full tilt with digital transformation as the government approves a plan to make all transactions between citizens…
CARICOM states push ahead with digital ID amid privacy, trust debates
Governments and financial institutions across the Caribbean are accelerating digital identity initiatives, as countries in the CARICOM bloc push toward…
Okta pushes vendor-neutral identity governance for AI agents
Okta is expanding its AI agent identity platform to support non-Okta identity providers and additional agentic AI ecosystems, including Amazon Web…
Election deepfake laws spread across US ahead of 2026 midterms
Maryland has become the 30th U.S. state to enact election deepfake legislation, as lawmakers race to address AI-generated political deception…
St. Kitts and Nevis launches passport modernization program
St. Kitts and Nevis has officially kicked off its passport modernization program, which aims to introduce chip-enabled biometric passports that…
Digital ID systems now critical infrastructure requiring sovereign cyber defence
Digital identity systems are increasingly being treated as critical national infrastructure requiring sovereign cyber defense, according to experts at ID4Africa’s…
Continental challenges, continental solutions: Africa Digital ID Hackathon 2026
For the second consecutive year, a team from Senegal has won the African Digital Identity Hackathon. Team TrustSeal was judged…
ID4Africa panel outlines steady KYC process, policy improvement
eKYC is an adaptation of long-standing, even ancient practice in banking for the modern world. But many countries are or…
DHS funding law quietly advances biometric, surveillance infrastructure
The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, which became law on April 30 and broke the months-long shutdown…
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