Biometrics and digital ID in Africa this week: politics, ecommerce, Covid-19 biometric capture bans
Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce…
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Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce…
While Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Chad either launched or announced mass enrollments for biometric civil registrations, the system in…
The result of Malawi’s first biometric election, held in May 2019, has finally been nullified by a panel of judges,…
Africa’s most emblematic biometric ID scheme has been halted by the High Court. Kenya’s Huduma Namba must wait until adequate…
The issue of removing ghost workers from public sector payrolls comes to the fore this week. In Nigeria university staff…
This has been West Africa’s week in digital ID news. Liberia may be adding a few more people to its…
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s…
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly…
With the biggest digital ID job to do in Africa in terms of population size, Nigeria dominates the identity agenda…
A new scheme launching in Sierra Leone could rapidly increase the proportion of the population with bank accounts as set…