Metro Manila leverages Dermalog tech for digital governance solution
Dermalog has partnered with the Philippine Land Transportation Office (LTO) to roll out a biometric pilot for a new digital…
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Guyana to launch biometric national ID card, Portugal and Jamaica digital ID plans advance
Guyana’s government is planning to include biometrics among the security features of a new national ID card for use with…
North Macedonian government partners with Mastercard for distributed digital ID service
Mastercard is working with the government of the Republic of North Macedonia on a suite of digital identity and related…
Afghanistan launches biometric register to improve business license issuing process
A biometric system for licensing businesses is being launched by the government of Afghanistan in order to improve the ease…
Indian government considers linking Aadhaar with voter records as biometrics use expands
India’s government has increased funding to the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) by 17 percent to 9.85 billion rupees…
Credit card, retail and tech giants, and government ID projects top biometrics news of the week
Biometric projects involving credit card companies, retail and tech giants made up several of the week’s top headlines in the…
Cyprus mulls over digital IDs as electronic signatures
Cyprus is considering going digital after the Transport Ministry is asking for public opinion on introducing electronic ID cards that…
Good practices guide for CRVS and identity management shows global birth registration at 73 percent
A compendium of good practices for civil registration and identity management has been published by the Global Partnership for Sustainable…
UK looks to replace passwords with biometric technology to reduce NHS login time
The U.K. government is investing £40 million (USD$52 million) in multi-factor authentication technology to upgrade NHS staff computer login system…
Malaysia plans release for final report on National ID by June 30
Last summer, Malaysia’s Ministry of Communications and Multimedia announced it was introducing a national biometric digital identification platform (National Digital…
