India mandates use of Aadhaar to streamline disability card issuance
The government of India has announced that the Aadhaar biometric digital ID can now be used as proof of ID…
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Ethiopia to give refugees digital ID to improve living conditions
Ethiopia is planning to issue digital ID to refugees, in what could be the first program of its kind to…
Nigeria reaches 57% in special birth registration drive targeting 12M children
The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) says its teams have attained 57 percent coverage of a digital birth registration…
US turns to biometrics to prevent humanitarian aid theft in Ethiopia
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will resume limited food aid in Ethiopia, AFP News…
Nigeria clears 200k passport backlog, cuts issuance time to two weeks
Nigeria’s beleaguered passport issuance system is witnessing a revolution lately with a huge backlog of 204,332 passports cleared in three…
India pushes liveness detection to biometric devices to cut payments fraud
The growing wave of fraud perpetrated against the Aadhaar-enabled Payments System (AePS), the widely-used last mile payments platform in India,…
ECOWAS talks travel, trade benefits of regional biometric ID card in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is the latest member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to host a workshop meant…
Stakeholders debate how to improve financial inclusion with digital public infrastructure
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, including digital IDs, are gaining more ground as part of the fight against poverty. During…
OpenID emphasizes human-centric approach, risk reduction for govt ID implementation
As the global shift towards national digital identity systems gains momentum, the complexities and risks in their implementation grow. A…
Cameroon’s new biometric ID system to issue cards within 48 hours with increased fee
In the next few months, a new generation ID card production facility, which will be as expedient as the country’s…
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