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ID4Africa

ID4Africa is a Pan-African Movement motivated by the need to promote legal identity for all in Africa. It is a tripartite with representation from African governments, development agencies and industry. Biometric Update has provided full coverage of the meetings and livecasts since 2016.

 

Benin envisages mobile wallet launch in inclusive national digital ID push

Benin has mentioned plans of launching a digital wallet as part of its push to make its national digital ID…

 

Zambia says using multiple strategies to meet 50 percent birth registration goal by 2026

Zambia is currently at a point of transition where it is moving from extremely limited birth registration to universal registration…

 

Upanzi Network digital identity hackathons to continue nurturing African talent

The African Digital Identity Hackathon, organized by the Upanzi Network at Carnegie Melon University Africa in Rwanda and MicroSave Consulting,…

 

Guinea-Bissau deploys efforts to digitize birth registration, national ID systems

Considerable efforts are underway to ensure the complete digitization, integration and modernization of the civil registration and national ID systems…

 

Liberia needs more funding to widen national ID coverage

The Executive Director of Liberia’s National Identification Registry (NIR), Andrew Peters, says one of the biggest challenges they face in…

 

Sierra Leone reaches 93 percent national ID coverage, 80 percent services digitized

Sierra Leone says it has recorded a 93 percent civil registration and national ID issuance coverage rate, with at least…

 

São Tomé and Principe pilots MOSIP-based national digital ID system

São Tomé and Principe, Africa’s second smallest country by area and population, with just around a thousand square kilometres and…

 

Phygital IDs and PPPs: IN Groupe CEO Agnès Diallo on realizing identity’s promise

IN Groupe is one of the oldest companies in the identity space, but promoted Agnès Diallo to the CEO role…

 

Biometrics experience, policy and tools must converge to transform lives

Biometrics and technologies for issuing, sharing and delivering services with identity credentials shared the stage with practical, real-world experiences and…

 

World Bank demystifies PKI and electronic signatures at ID4Africa 2025

A workshop chaired by World Bank officials Nay Constantine, Tunde Fafunwa and Chris Tullis addressed how electronic signatures enable remote…

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