Côte d’Ivoire has launched a feasibility study for a national digital authentication platform and a digital identity wallet, with recommendations and an implementation roadmap expected by the end of January […]

Birth certificates and other foundational identity records can give fraudsters a route around increasingly secure passports when their personalized data is left unprotected, Troy Group’s Mark Bond warned. Bond, the […]

Holders of Uganda’s newly issued national identity cards are being turned away from banks and telecom shops because the QR codes on the cards do not authenticate, MPs told Parliament […]

Cameroon has tasked state telecom operator CAMTEL with building the technical backbone for interoperability across the country’s public digital platforms, including identity and administrative systems. CAMTEL is one of the […]

Liberia’s NIR completed procurement and finalised a concession for an Austrian firm to build a new national biometric ID system.

Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation has convened a national public-private dialogue to coordinate development of a digital identity system and the country’s wider digital public infrastructure. The […]

Burundi and India have opened early talks on cooperation in digital identity and electronic payments, with India offering to share the expertise it has built through its large-scale digital public […]

Global e·dentity, a Cupertino-based service-disabled veteran-owned small business, says it has renewed and expanded an exclusive licensing agreement with Supplier Development Systems for a five-year term the company values at […]

Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria have been selected as the first three countries to implement ADAPT, a digital infrastructure initiative built to support intra-African trade by combining digital identity, cross-border data […]

Trident Digital Tech Holdings has set out a new corporate strategy that expands the company beyond digital identity into a five-pillar holding company spanning national identity infrastructure, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, […]