International ID Day 2021 seeks mainstream recognition with art, friends and tokenization
Today, September 16, is International ID Day, the day adopted by the ID4Africa Movement to promote the importance of legal…
ID for All
UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 calls for legal identity for all by 2030. Read Biometric Update news and in-depth features about digital identity projects in developing countries. Read our exclusive ID4Africa coverage.
International ID Day 2021: beyond the core and ID as an ‘existential right’
International ID Day on 16 September will see the digital identity cause begin a move to the mainstream, explore what…
Kenya’s private sector can push digital identity drive: Estonian leader
The President of Estonia has praised Kenya’s digital identity journey and says she believes the private sector can help push…
Mastercard partnership to capture biometrics of 30 million Africans
A joint venture by Mastercard’s Community Pass and its partner Paycode aims to capture the biometrics of 30 million individuals…
Governments adding biometrics, digitizing ID worldwide: Zimbabwe passports, China mDLs, Belarus ID cards
National ID continues to go biometric and digital around the world. Zimbabwe’s Civil Registry prepares to go digital with Semlex…
Kenyans, Cameroonians reminded to pick up their biometric IDs
Kenyan authorities are calling on citizens to clear the backlog of uncollected biometric national identity cards, known as the Huduma…
Nigeria to require face, fingerprint biometrics for Anambra State election
A system that will combine fingerprint and face biometrics for identity verification will be required to verify voters during Governorship…
South Africa’s government urged to make digital identity development a priority
A report commissioned by financial services company BankservAfrica and conducted by accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has called on the government…
Tech5 integrates biometrics enrollment and issuance capability with MOSIP platform
Tech5 has continued its integration with MOSIP, building a new functionality for enrolling biometrics with the company’s T5-IDencode issuance platform into…
Nigeria’s digital identity agency NIMC to get $61M funding to upgrade identity infrastructure
Nigeria’s cabinet, the Federal Executive Council, has approved N25 billion (U.S.$61 million) for the upgrading of identity infrastructure at the…
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