India is trying to make it safer for people to collect their pensions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In that regard, the country noted that the vast majority of people collection […]

The government of Nepal is moving forward with plans for its national biometric ID program. To that end, the Department of National ID and Civil Registration will soon issue an […]

Singapore citizens will soon be able to use their faces to gain access to various government services. The country will specifically allow people to use facial recognition to log into […]

Scott Morrison’s Australian government has shared some more details about its anticipated digital business plan, which will allocate $800 million to help businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime […]

Singapore’s national digital ID platform, SingPass, now supports biometric authentication in the form of facial recognition, thanks to a collaboration between iProov, Toppan Ecquaria, and the Government Technology Agency of […]

Africa’s most prominent identity-focused NGO is planning to explore different approaches to digital identity numbers in an upcoming panel discussion. The webinar, titled “Spotlight on Unique Digital Identity Numbers”, will […]

ID4Africa is calling attention to a recent Identification for Development (ID4D) report that examines the relative quality of the privacy features in digital ID programs in Austria, India, and Estonia. […]

The Jamaican Government has expressed its desire to fast-track the creation and implementation of a national identification system (NIDS) to help it with its aid and benefit distribution in the […]

In a decision by the European Commission, British nationals living in the European Union will receive an EU-wide biometric residence document by the end of the post-Brexit transition period. In […]

Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has said it is expecting that the biometric component of its myGovID program will be ready for a public beta test rollout later this year. […]