Bhutan prepares to vote on its National Identity Bill
Bhutan is preparing to vote for its National Digital Identity Bill, the legislative framework designed to regulate its sovereign digital…
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Indonesia wants to share lessons on digital public infrastructure as India faces criticism
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) has been hailed as a way for governments to meet their development goals, catalyze innovation and…
Home Affairs Dept to become national ID-issuing authority in Bangladesh
National ID cards in Bangladesh (NIDs) will henceforth be issued by the country’s Department of Home Affairs and no longer…
Nigeria now has a data protection legislation after years of back and forth
Nigerian President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday June 14 signed into law the country’s Data Protection Bill, weeks after it…
Cameroon partners with French Devt Agency to ramp up birth registration
Cameroon’s Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey, on Friday June 9, signed a partnership agreement…
Nigeria popularizes tokenization for ID verification, assures of data protection
The National Identity Management Commission of Nigeria (NIMC) has been explaining the ease with which Nigerians with a National Identification…
Nubian Rights Forum urges equitable rollout to Kenya’s UPI system
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) led by the Nubian Rights Forum are urging the government to listen to public concerns and…
OECD adopts recommendations on digital identity governance
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Council has adopted a new set of recommendations on how digital identity should…
Governments embrace digital identity register, foreigner ID cards and bank partnerships
From Luxemburg and Estonia to South Africa and Vietnam, governments across the world are rolling out digital IDs, sometimes but…
Rumored breach of India’s vaccination data portal threatens to undermine DPI influence
Reports are swirling that India’s public vaccination portal, CoWIN, has suffered a breach of huge volumes of personal information, including…
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