MOSIP open digital identity initiative partners up to enhance platform for developing countries
A new partnership to promote robust digital identity as a global public good has been formed by the International Institute…
SDG 16.9
UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 calls for legal identity for all people worldwide, including birth registration, by 2030.
Value biometrics over physical credentials to improve inclusion, ID4Africa’s Identity Day panelists argue
Biometrics should be privileged as a source of unique identity assurance over physical documents, and exclusion risk assessments should be…
Digital Identity Matters: Enabling Nigeria’s economic and social growth with digital identity
Digital Identity Matters: Enabling Nigeria’s economic and social growth with digital identity Sept 16, 2020, 11am (WAT) Online In 2017,…
Biometric projects to fight fraud and corruption in Africa need to avoid the same traps
Allegations against Semlex in Africa continue to mount as a new exposé of the Belgian firm’s dealings comes to light, this…
Digital welfare state
Photo by Paz B. “The lack of jobs is a crime” – March 2020 – Mar del Plata, Argentina This…
New approaches to biometrics and digital ID systems in Africa considered to achieve universal coverage
Though efforts to deliver identity to all people in Africa through biometrics and other digital technologies have been stopped in…
Digital identity for all push in Africa now has clarity and political will: ID4Africa Executive Chairman
Several major developments in the push for universal identification have come out of the global pandemic, raising hopes that biometrics…
‘Certain narratives were exposed’ in national ID systems, development experts tell ID4Africa webinar
Universal digital identity coverage could be achieved within the next two years, if shifts in political will and recognition of…
National digital IDs are essential, but can they be made secure?
Secure identity credentials are taken for granted by anyone who has had one since secondary school, but they are fundamental…
Mozilla white paper urges open approach to national biometric ID
The Mozilla Foundation has some strong opinions and recommendations for national biometric ID projects. The 36-page white paper, “From Openness…
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