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    AI4D - Digital and Biometric Identity Systems

    This policy paper examines issues emerging around the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital and Biometric Identities (BDI) being rolled out across Africa as a central part of digital strategies to meet the UN 2030 Sustainable Develop…

    Gabriella Razzano

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Biometric data
    • Digital Inequality
    • Social Protection
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Information technology
    74 pages

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    Digital Identity in South Africa: Case Study Conducted as Part of a Ten-country Exploration of Socio-digital ID Systems in Parts of Africa

    The South African project to digitise its foundational identity expands on a broad system of paper identity documents underpinned by an identity database that has for many decades included records of biometric identity, primarily through fingerprint…

    Gabriella Razzano

    • Digital identity
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Human rights
    • Information technology
    • Rule of law
    44 pages

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    Digital Identity in Ghana: Case Study Conducted as Part of a Ten-country Exploration of Socio-digital Id Systems in Parts of Africa

    While there have been a number of prior studies on Ghana’s national ID system, it is rarely framed and assessed as a digital ID. In this report, we highlight the digital components of the national ID and show how it increasingly fits the frame of a …

    Smith Oduro-Marfo

    Teki Akuetteh Falconer

    • Digital identity
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Data protection
    • Information technology
    • Rule of law
    37 pages

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    Digital Identity in Kenya: Case Study Conducted as Part of a Ten-country Exploration of Socio-digital ID Systems in Parts of Africa

    Like many other African countries, Kenya is implementing a digital ID programme. However, Kenya’s digital ID comes with a lot of baggage, as it is an upgrade of its national identification document that has been in place since the colonial period. T…

    Grace Mutung'u

    • Digital identity
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Data protection
    • Information technology
    • Rule of law
    46 pages

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    Digital Identity in Zimbabwe: Case Study Conducted as Part of a Ten-country Exploration of Socio-digital ID Systems in Parts of Africa

    Countries are moving to adopt digital ID systems to help address the exclusion of their citizens under the traditional analogue registration frameworks as well as ensure access to basic services, including healthcare, education, social welfare and v…

    Nhlanhla Ngwenya

    • Digital identity
    • National identity
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Information technology
    • Rule of law
    61 pages

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    Digital Identity in Lesotho: Case Study Conducted as Part of a Ten-country Exploration of Socio-digital ID Systems in Parts of Africa

    In 2011, the government of Lesotho passed the National Identity Cards Act 2011, which paved the way for establishing a national digital identity register and issuing national identity cards (ID cards). In 2013, the register, managed by the Departmen…

    Nthabiseng Pule

    • Digital identity
    • National identity
    • Biometric Identity systems
    • Rule of law
    • Information technology
    55 pages

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