Smartmatic wins Uganda biometric voter registration kit contract with $22.4M bid
After last week’s special report on Nigeria and Ghana, we cast our biometrics news net across the African continent again…
After last week’s special report on Nigeria and Ghana, we cast our biometrics news net across the African continent again…
Covid-19 continues to impact biometric systems across Africa. After initial reports in previous weeks of systems being suspended to reduce…
Once again, Nigeria dominates the biometrics news agenda in Africa and this week; even a university has resorted to biometric…
Africa’s most emblematic biometric ID scheme has been halted by the High Court. Kenya’s Huduma Namba must wait until adequate…
A theme emerging this week is a pan-African perspective for digital ID schemes across the continent. Progress is being made…
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…
The importance of biometric legal identity from birth is something of a theme this week as UNICEF pushes the concept…