World Bank provides $300m in biometric-enabled cash cards to poorest mothers in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh government signed a $300 million financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDC), the World Bank’s concessional arm…
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Kenya implements biometric registration for all citizens
The Kenyan government has implemented biometric registration for all citizens aged 12 and older, which should help prevent the duplication…
India’s IT & communications ministry to take over Aadhaar biometric identification project
India’s ministry of information technology and communications will take over the country’s national citizen identification project, Aadhaar, according to a…
Net1 recoups additional implementation costs from SASSA for biometric registrations
Net1 UEPS Technologies has announced that it has received approximately $25.7 million from the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), in relation…
MasterCard, Bank of Punjab launch biometric social security program
MasterCard, along with the Bank of Punjab, have launched a social security program to automate disbursement, subsidy and assistance programs…
ABI Research anticipates massive growth in smart card shipments this year
New research from ABI Research forecasts 8.6 billion smart cards to be shipped worldwide in 2013; a combined number spanning…
U.S. should adopt biometrics IDs for Social Security
Comprehensive immigration reform in the United States might spur the implementation of nationwide biometric identification. BiometricUpdate.com reported last week that…
Biometric devices expose collusion scam in Karnataka hostels
A scam involving collusion between officials at the social welfare department in India with contractors has been exposed, thanks to…
Aadhaar scholarship program struggles to enrol students
Linking students’ scholarship accounts Aadhaar numbers has proven to be a more difficult task than originally suggested, as progress has…
Egyptian government approves smart card system for fuel subsidies
The Egyptian government has recently approved a new smart card system for subsidized fuels, originally proposed by the ministries of…
