South Africa still waiting for biometric system upgrade after spending whole budgeted amount
South Africa paid out more than 280 million South African rand (approximately US$16.7 million) to EOH Holdings half a decade…
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Corruption, costs and cut-offs: the human impact of Aadhaar implementation issues
A series of reports list the ongoing issues surrounding India’s national digital identity project, Aadhaar. Its integration with government welfare…
NIN numbers, corruption, forex, lack of booklets: Nigeria’s passport woes to be investigated
Nigeria’s House of Representatives is to establishing an ad hoc committee to investigate why there is a shortage of booklets…
Idemia official says data protection law vital for India’s federated ID project
India must introduce its personal data protection legislation if it is to press ahead with its federated identity infrastructure to…
UIDAI launches program to identify, block vulnerabilities in Aadhaar biometric database
A bug bounty program whose objective is to enhance security around the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) – the database…
Philippines president calls for speedier issuance of biometric PhilID cards
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has been told to accelerate efforts in the printing and distribution of the biometric national…
Nigeria issues 700K biometric bank verification numbers between April and July
Figures attributed to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) indicate that a total…
Ethiopia using Tech5 biometric engine, digital ID in MOSIP-based scheme pre-launch
Ethiopia’s National Identity Program (NIDP) is to use Tech5’s T5-ABIS BE (Biometric Engine) and T5-Digital ID solutions in the pre-launch…
Nigeria’s electoral commission pushes biometric voter registration deadline to 31 July
The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) has set 31 July, 2022, as the deadline for the continuous biometric…
Congo’s troubled, lucrative biometric passport contract still open?
It still is not known who, if anyone, has won a contract to make biometric passports for the Democratic People’s…
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