Bill Gates visits MOSIP, gets the T-shirt, discusses financial inclusion via the platform
Bill Gates has visited MOSIP (Modular Open Source Identity Platform) in its hometown Bangalore for presentations on the project’s progress…
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Ghana re-announces issuance of ID numbers to babies, Uganda to register citizen school children
Babies born in Ghana on or after 31 March 2023 will be issued with a Ghana Card number, perhaps, whereas…
Philippines consider adding biometrics to voting machines for 2025 elections
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Philippines has announced intentions of potentially using new biometric technology in the country’s…
Lloyds Banking Group invests £10M in Yoti for new digital ID for all to launch this year
London-based digital identity provider Yoti is getting a £10 million (US$11.9 million) investment from Lloyds Banking Group to support new…
Platform to enable auto-update of ID credentials on India’s DigiLocker coming soon
A platform is being developed by the government of India through which users who have their ID documents stored on…
Opposition MPs push for parliamentary debate on Cameroon’s ID card problems
A member of the opposition in Cameroon’s lower house of Parliament, Youmo Koupit Adamou, says he and his peers plan…
Tron partners with Dominica government on Web 3 digital identity project
Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) Tron has announced a new partnership with the Commonwealth of Dominica to develop the country’s digital…
US GSA gets caught fibbing about Login.gov identity verification compliance
A U.S. government watchdog claims that the General Services Administration misled the agencies they serve by not telling them about…
Aadhaar transaction number jump; deadline nears to link financial accounts
Almost 2 billion Aadhaar authentications were recorded last month, according to the Indian government. In all, 90.3 billion transactions have…
Pakistan Telecom Authority and NADRA to work together on multi-finger biometrics
A memorandum of understanding between the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has established…
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