Tanzania selects HID Global to deploy electronic visa and permit service
The government of Tanzania has selected HID Global’s citizen ID solutions to add electronic visa and permit capabilities to its…
Africa
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Kenya completes biometric data collection of police as public registration exercise set to begin
The roll out of Kenya’s new National Police Service Information Management System is now complete showing that the service has…
Biometric verification required for Namibian pension fund recipients
Namibia’s Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) now requires that recipients receiving a monthly pension benefit from GIPF register their biometrics…
Kenya MPs push back on plan to drop use of biometric system in national census
Some members of the Parliament of Kenya have spoken out about the government’s decision to not involve the use of…
IDEMIA defends value of biometric voter kits to Kenyan committee
IDEMIA executives defended the performance of its biometric voting technology in an appearance before the National Assembly of Kenya’s Public…
Testing of biometric registration plan in Kenya begins
A pilot project to test the US$60M biometric registration plan to enroll more than 50 million Kenyans in a digital…
Angola introducing biometric passports
The director of Angola’s Foreigners Migration Service (SME) revealed last week that the Angolan government plans to start issuing passports…
NEC technology deployed for Japanese digital security project in Ivory Coast
Last week a delegation from the Japanese Ministry of the Interior and Communications assessed an Ivory Coast tech project underway…
Ugandan police deploy Gemalto tech for rapid capture of suspects’ biometric data
Gemalto announced today it is supplying the Uganda Police Force with its Cogent Automated Biometric Identification System (CABIS) and LiveScan…
Nigerian NGO calls for biometric registration of people displaced by Boko Haram to prevent graft
A Nigerian non-governmental organization has called for the use of biometrics to identify internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the restive…
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