Nepal considers $14M biometric national ID card bids from Thales and Idemia
Competing bids from Thales and Idemia are being considered by Nepal’s government for a national biometric ID card program, which…
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Nepal Parliamentary Committee mandates use of biometrics to identify unclaimed bodies
The Ministry of Home Affairs of Nepal has been instructed to speed up the issuance of biometric ID cards and…
Digital ID accelerates, faces obstacles across the world
While the adoption of biometric digital IDs is being accelerated around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries…
Nepal leverages digital ID registration to launch e-government app to Beta
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoCIT) of the Nepalese government has launched a national government services app, Nagarik,…
Biometric national ID card projects advance in Nepal and Croatia
A bid notice for printing and supplying Nepal’s new biometric national identity cards will be issued within three months, The…
Augentic wins biometric passport contract for Cameroon, Fiji issuance appears successful
Cameroon has selected partners Augentic and Portuguese State Printer Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (INCM) to supply biometric passports and support issuance…
Idemia, HID Global, Aisino, Muehlbauer ID in bidding war over Nepal biometric passport deal
Nepal has been negotiating multi-million dollar contracts with four international companies to implement its biometric passport plan, restarting a process…
Nepal moves closer to approving biometric national ID card bill
A Nepali government committee has approved the National Identity and Civil Registration Bill, which would mandate the issuance of a…
Nepal government’s roll-out plan for national biometric ID cards criticized
The decision by the Nepal government to expand the distribution of biometric national identity cards throughout the country is drawing…
IDEMIA delivers machine-readable biometric ID card to Nepal
IDEMIA announced that it has begun delivery of biometrics-based national identity cards to Nepal. The company has been working with…
