South Africa Home Affairs requests $618M budget to advance digital transformation
South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber has tabled a budget request of 11 billion rand (about US$618 million)…
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South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber has tabled a budget request of 11 billion rand (about US$618 million)…
The government of Cameroon has disclosed that it is working to update a Digital Master Plan for decentralized entities in…
Digital Government Africa Summit 2025 Lusaka, Zambia October 7 – 9, 2025 Digital Government Africa (DGA) is Africa’s leading high-level…
A digital government application, which was launched in May in Eswatini, is facing public scrutiny over concerns about data privacy…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Visa have formalized a strategic partnership to bolster Africa’s digital ecosystem. Announced at the…
In the past, there’ve been calls, including from UNECA, for a unique African interoperable digital ID which can be used…
In a move hailed as both technologically significant and strategically vital, Somalia formally launched the Personal Identification Secure Comparison and…
One of the signs of progress towards realizing the “prioritizing use, accelerating impact” part of the ID4Africa 2025 AGM’s official…
A Partnership between the Nigerian government and the World Food Program (WFP) is helping more than 750,000 forcibly displaced persons…
Libyan biometrics solutions provider Al Itissan Al-Jadeed has been contracted to oversee an upgrade of the passport and national ID…