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Digital public goods and infrastructure can’t be stamped out on an assembly line

Jan 24, 2022, 1:25 pm EST

Ambitious plans for using digital public goods and infrastructure for national economic development are resulting in insights for the next…

Nov 13, 2021, 10:35 am EST

Biometrics adoption is being encouraged in the public sector for digital ID and online government applications, as it continues to…

Nov 6, 2021, 11:57 am EDT

Push and pull on biometrics and related technologies from regulations and standards is one of the main through-lines of the…

Nov 3, 2021, 3:57 pm EDT

A new World Economic Forum white paper finds reason to believe that digital ID programs will be decisive in modernized…

Sep 23, 2021, 12:08 pm EDT

In an interesting twist, a bureaucrat from a tiny West African nation has advice about fielding digital IDs in developed…

Sep 13, 2021, 12:55 pm EDT

The Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced it is beginning an evaluation of the screening…

Sep 11, 2021, 12:44 pm EDT

Signs of market strength for biometric payment cards and facial recognition are prominent among the week’s most-read articles on Biometric…

Sep 3, 2021, 5:01 pm EDT

The possibility of biometric databases covering millions of Afghans falling into the hands of the Taliban has led to renewed…

Jun 16, 2021, 11:57 am EDT

Several biometric and identity verification companies have been awarded or honoured for their technologies. Simprints is included in The 101…

May 3, 2021, 6:49 pm EDT

New research by Ipsos for the World Economic Forum has shown that over 75 percent of people worldwide think that…