National digital IDs are essential, but can they be made secure?
Secure identity credentials are taken for granted by anyone who has had one since secondary school, but they are fundamental…
Gates Foundation
2019: a critical year for biometrics and digital ID in the Global South
While Europe and the U.S. have seen steady progress with incremental improvements and plenty of new regulation alongside the growing…
ITU Financial Inclusion Global Initiative issues reports on biometrics and other tech to build trust
The Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a series of new reports outlining…
Idemia brings identity expertise to GSMA digital and financial inclusion initiative
Idemia has joined the newly launched GSMA Inclusive Tech Lab to support the development of innovations and future technologies that…
ID4D initiatives and TSA trials top this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
For the second consecutive week, Nigeria and airport biometrics made headlines on Biometric Update, though for different reasons. Several of…
Gates Foundation identifies biometrics as one pillar of tech “trinity” for digital inclusion
Biometric identification is one-third of a trinity of technologies that can enable more efficient and equitable resource distribution in developing…
Two ideas to break down vendor lock-in in foundational biometric ID systems launch at ID4Africa 2019
A lack of interoperability and vendor lock-in are long-standing barriers to successful identification systems in many places around the world,…
ID4Africa 2019 promises debate on biometric data and ID issues as market matures
The maturity of Africa’s digital identity ecosystem has led to new debates on crucial identity topics at ID4Africa 2019, ID4Africa…
How many billions are the last billion’s biometrics worth?
Earlier in the maturation of biometrics as a digital technology and an industry, providing identification in the developing world was…
History of digital identification in the developing world
The idea of providing identification to support economic and social development evolved out of sustainable development communities, and has early…
