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14th Global Forum on Global Settlements tackles digitalisation

The 14th Global Forum on Global Settlements themed around the 'Sustainable Development of Cities and Human Settlements in the Digital Era' was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5-6 September. In his opening remarks, Director of the Africa Center for ...

Ontario Releases Technology and Standards for Digital Identity

The Ontario government has released  technology and standards for use in the province's digital ID system. The standards aim to support Ontario's secure online services. The system envisages adoption of a digital ID system to facilitate identifi...

Google to require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads

Google is implementing new rules requiring political ads on its platforms to disclose when images and audio are generated using AI. This change, set to take effect in November, responds to the increased use of AI tools for creating synthetic content....

Belarus begins biometric ID enrolment

The Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry has begun collecting biometric data for identification cards which are used inside the country, and biometric passports for international travel. Foreigners can also...

Zimbabwe: Digital ID services to start by December

Zimbabwe's Civil Registry Department has put in place measures to enhance performance of the department. These include use of online services in processing of documents such as passports and national identity card. A news report by Herald quotes gove...

PTA starts mandatory facial recognition of subscribers to tackle 'illegal' SIMs issue

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has begun requiring people registering SIM cards to get their faces identified in order to curb illegal SIM cards in the country. According to a report by 24 Digital, PTA disclosed that over 360, 000 nationa...

Beijing plans to regulate 'digital humans'

Finland among first adopters of the digital passport in the EU

Finland has launched a pilot project to test digital passports and Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) for Finnish citizens traveling from Helsinki to the UK. This trial allows passengers to present a digital ID on their smartphones instead of physical ...

Costa Rica to adopt biometric passport in 2022

Costa Rica's General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners is in the process of implementing a new biometric passport. The passport will have a chip incorporating biometric data such as face and fingerprint together with personal information. In ad...

DRC to roll out a national population register

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s President Felix Tshisekedi announced a digitalisation plan that includes the development of a population register for the country. The DRC currently does not maintain national identity documents but adults are pro...

NCC opens public comment period for SIM card registration and replacement guidelines

TheNigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given timelines for public input on draft guidelines  on SIM registration and replacement. The guidelines make it mandatory to use the national ID when registering or replacing a SIM card.  Th...

Singapore rolling out a national digital identification programme

Singapore is implementing a crypto based mobile based national digital ID. In an interview, Mr Kwok Quek Sin, senior director -national digital identity at GovTech Singapore explained that digital ID was one of Singapore's six Smart Nation strategic ...