Nigeria reaches 90M digital ID registrations as database capacity issue looms
Nigeria officials say they have so far been able to register the biometrics of almost 90 million citizens for National…
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Why we support International Identity Day
International Identity Day began as a proposal and petition launched at ID4Africa 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria, and has grown into…
Colombia’s biometric digital ID surpasses 500K applications as govt pushes digital version
Colombians wanting a mobile ID can digitize the new version of their national ID card through the National Registry of…
India claims to effectively meet SDG 16.9 of legal ID for all, expands authentication methods
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that implements the country’s Aadhaar identity system, claims to have reached…
Aadhaar biometrics considered for expansion toward non-banking financial firms
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is considering onboarding several nonbank financial companies (NBFCs) to authenticate users online via…
Pakistan disburses over $100M in flood relief via biometric ID
Pakistan has so far disbursed 24.5 billion Pakistani rupees (US$103 million) to families affected by floods across the country via…
Ghana pauses early block on mobile subscribers as biometric SIM registration draws criticism
Telecoms in Ghana have been instructed to stop blocking SIM cards, roughly a week after they were due to begin…
Nigeria finds more ineligible registries in latest biometric deduplication round
The latest round of biometric deduplication by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has discovered many multiple and ineligible registrations…
Jamaica to issue free birth certificates ahead of national digital ID enrollment drive
Jamaica has launched what it calls ‘Operation Birthright,’ a campaign intended to issue free birth certificates to as many as…
ID Day coalition grows by 45 percent, new slogan adopted
September 16 will be the fourth International Identity Day, and marks a significant jump in the numbers of organizations supporting…
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