3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (948+ words) Africa’s next wave of digital identity investment may have surprisingly little to do with biometrics, wallets or credentials. The projects are different, but together they point toward a broader shift. Private capital is moving deeper into the physical infrastructure on…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (392+ words) Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education has announced that the process to authenticate academic certificates has been fully digitalized, capping several months of coordinated work to get that done. The reform comes as digital credential verification is gaining momentum around the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (410+ words) Hopae and Saudi Arabia’s Technology Control Company (TCC) have partnered to bring cross-border electronic identity verification to the Kingdom, allowing government agencies and enterprises to verify users with more than 70 government-issued digital identities and wallets through Hopae Connect. Officials say…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (549+ words) Delegations from several African countries have completed a two‑week mission to India, learning from its experience in building digital public infrastructure (DPI). The visit was part of UNDP’s Africa Accelerator for Digital Public Infrastructure (AA4DPI) programme. Delegates from Ethiopia, Malawi,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (515+ words) Touchless fingerprint biometrics are giving law enforcement officers the ability to identify people quickly in the field without dedicated hardware. Placer County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) adopted the emerging technology to turn the standard county-issued iPhones that officers use into biometrics…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (575+ words) Pakistani officials are considering adding iris biometrics to SIM card registration after concluding that fingerprint-based verification alone has failed to curb identity theft and fraudulent SIM use. The proposal reflects growing recognition that relying on a single biometric modality can…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (565+ words) According to the bank’s leadership, these initiatives are intended not only to facilitate digital payment transactions among member states, but also to accelerate the push towards a regional financial inclusion target of 60 percent by 2029 and 75 percent by 2032. In July, the…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (691+ words) The organization found this snail mail-based system frequently delayed the process, holding up pension payments to retirees. “The other thing that we observed was possible fraud, not only by the beneficiary themselves, but sometimes by family members or those who…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (379+ words) Bangladesh has revealed implementation details for its planned One-ID digital identity platform, publishing the proposed budget, issuance strategy and technical architecture for the World Bank-backed D-STAR program. The implementation details emerged in a review of the D-STAR project proposal first…...