New World Bank funding to support Rwanda’s digital ID rollout, CRVS digitization
Rwandan lawmakers have approved about $19 million in additional World Bank financing to support the national digital ID rollout and…
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UNDP backs Malawi birth registration push with 152 new printers
Malawi’s ongoing push to close the legal identity gap at its foundation through the registration of all births in the…
Cameroon’s civil registration reform faces $85M funding gap
Cameroon needs more than FCFA 50 billion, about US$85 million, to fully digitalize its civil registration system by 2029–2030, according…
Denmark breach exposes personal data of 8.8 million people in population register
A major data breach of Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR) has exposed the names, addresses and personal identification numbers of…
Latin America expands collaborative DPI push through CLARCIEV, 50-in-5
The Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI) says it has signed a three-year agreement to serve as a technical advisor…
Brazil expands civil ID, biometric training across justice system
Brazil’s National Council of Justice (CNJ) has trained 4,637 professionals in its latest online cycle on civil identification and documentation…
Kenya’s digital birth registration platform enrols 270k newborns in two months
Kenyan authorities say they have registered more than 270,000 newborns digitally and assigned them unique personal identifiers (UPIs) within two…
Indonesia’s IKD digital ID passes 20.5M users
Indonesia’s digital population identity program has passed 20.5 million users, according to the Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration…
Liberia to link national ID, CRVS in planned infrastructure upgrade
Liberia plans to link its national ID and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems as part of a broader…
Iraq takes over refugee identity registration from UNHCR
Iraq is assuming responsibility for refugee and asylum-seeker registration, taking over a process previously led by UNHCR. The Ministry of…
