Civitas ID wins Gates grant to build DPI for undocumented populations
A U.S. nonprofit has been awarded half a million dollars to develop digital public infrastructure for those lacking official documentation….
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Co-creation gives MOSIP development a lift on path to sustainability
MOSIP’s vision of achieving open-source project sustainability rests in large part on contributions from the countries that adopt the modular…
Romania chooses German EUDI Wallet for national customization
Romania will adopt and use the German model for the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet). A release from the…
UNDP announces initiative to drive sovereign, open-source DPI efforts in Africa
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says its Africa Regional Bureau and the Digital, AI and Innovation Hub, will this…
Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have developed a new open-source toolkit intended to make iris recognition technology more…
WSO2 expands identity infrastructure push for agentic AI era
Sri Lanka-based global identity and access management (IAM) firm WSO2 is expanding its Agent Fabric platform, introducing a Forward Deployed…
Harvard, Linux Foundation launch open-source wallet for selective data sharing
The internet is seeing a wide-scale push towards identity verification and age assurance, but the question remains: how can users…
Germany launches program to bring open source maintainers into standards bodies
Tech experts who lead open source digital infrastructure projects rarely get to participate in developing technical standards, even though three-quarters…
California’s OS-based age verification law challenges open-source community
California’s new online safety bill, AB 1043 (the Digital Age Assurance Act), adopts a declared age model for operating systems….
WSO2 to help MOSIP’s passwordless authentication platform eSignet Go Thunder
IIIT-Bangalore, home to India’s burgeoning digital public goods efforts, has formed a partnership through the MOSIP initiative it hosts with…
