NZ government seeks insights, information on market for digital civil registration
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) is “seeking ideas and opportunities to help shape our thinking around the future…
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Sierra Leone reaches 93 percent national ID coverage, 80 percent services digitized
Sierra Leone says it has recorded a 93 percent civil registration and national ID issuance coverage rate, with at least…
São Tomé and Principe pilots MOSIP-based national digital ID system
São Tomé and Principe, Africa’s second smallest country by area and population, with just around a thousand square kilometres and…
Chad, Mali, Senegal pursue birth registration reforms to close gaps
Efforts deployed by the Republics of Chad, Mali and Senegal to reform and digitize their respective birth registration systems are…
Sri Lanka OneRegistry to bridge gap between citizens and government databases
With help from the UN Development Program (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), along with the UN Sri Lanka…
Tonga launches TongaPass digital ID and government portal
Tonga has launched its TongaPass digital ID, a new digital government portal with which the Tongan government wants to transform…
Somalia walking a thorny road to an inclusive national digital ID system
Flashback about 30 years ago, Somalia had no functional national ID system. Legal identity in this Horn of Africa nation…
Infant.ID system can effectively address child swaps, trafficking: Integrated Biometrics
Integrated Biometrics (IB) is a regular exhibitor at ID4Africa AGMs, but this year, the U.S. biometrics firm showcased its first…
Tanzania budgets $4.5M for digital ID pilot targeting minors
Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister, Innocent Bashungwa, has announced that the government has allocated the sum of 11.34 billion Tanzanian Shillings…
Bebê ID project records infant biometrics with Infant.ID tech
Biometric technology from Brazil’s Infant.ID is powering the newly announced Bebê ID project in Paraná state, where the government will…
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