India mandates use of Aadhaar to streamline disability card issuance
The government of India has announced that the Aadhaar biometric digital ID can now be used as proof of ID…
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Regula rapidly adds to ID document template database, reaches milestone
Forensic and identity verification developer Regula has expanded its database of identity document templates to include over 13,000 ID templates…
Digital IDs – so valuable, so hard to accomplish: global finance summit
Government finance officials from around the world met this summer and, prominent among the many messages to them was: It’s…
Oversight body lists risks for the US’ mired Login.gov project
The U.S. government’s Login.gov program continues to provide lessons to review for future public administration, public policy and digital identity…
Ethiopia to give refugees digital ID to improve living conditions
Ethiopia is planning to issue digital ID to refugees, in what could be the first program of its kind to…
Nigeria reaches 57% in special birth registration drive targeting 12M children
The National Population Commission of Nigeria (NPC) says its teams have attained 57 percent coverage of a digital birth registration…
Fund non-technical parts of digital public infrastructure for best results: DIAL
Sustainable financing is needed to make sure that digital identity and other pieces of digital pubic infrastructure deliver the promised…
Samsung Wallet adds support for Idemia mDLs, starting with Iowa and Arizona
Samsung’s U.S. subsidiary has partnered with Idemia to allow mobile driver’s licenses to be integrated stored in and shared from…
Nigeria clears 200k passport backlog, cuts issuance time to two weeks
Nigeria’s beleaguered passport issuance system is witnessing a revolution lately with a huge backlog of 204,332 passports cleared in three…
ECOWAS talks travel, trade benefits of regional biometric ID card in Cote d’Ivoire
Cote d’Ivoire is the latest member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to host a workshop meant…
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