Nigeria’s digital identity agency NIMC to get $61M funding to upgrade identity infrastructure
Nigeria’s cabinet, the Federal Executive Council, has approved N25 billion (U.S.$61 million) for the upgrading of identity infrastructure at the…
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As US gives up on federated digital identity, Europe tries again with SSI
The idea of providing digital ID to people throughout an open federated identity ecosystem with multiple providers may have to…
Sri Lanka biometrics pilot project awarded to IriTech after MOSIP self-compliance test
IriTech has announced that it has successfully completed a self-compliance program on its IriSentinel iris biometric scanner device based on…
Kenyans urged to register biometrics for health insurance
The Chief Executive Officer of Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has called on citizens not to drag their feet…
County extends biometric authentication with BIO-key’s PortalGuard
Florida’s Orange County will deploy BIO-key’s PortalGuard for user authentication and voter data access after the county’s Supervisor of Elections…
Kenya issues digital ID cards to minority community after decades of ordeal
Members of a ‘stateless’ community in Kenya known as the Shona have received digital ID cards from the Kenyan government,…
Cameroon reveals intention to issue biometric residence permits
The Secretary General at Cameroon’s Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, says the President of the Republic has the given the green…
Greater threats identified for Afghanistan’s highly detailed biometric databases
Further threats have been unearthed for government biometric databases in Afghanistan, which could allow the identification of millions of people,…
Philippines digital ID registration biometric phase advances amid quarantines
Biometric enrollment for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) is proceeding at pace. Over 26 million people have completed Step 2…
Add a biometric basket for your authentication eggs, says vendor
Identity management is failing because it focuses on effectively authenticating devices without biometrically authenticating the person operating an accepted device,…
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