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Digital Identity
Digital Identity Week 2020 Summary
We held our first Digital Identity Week in November 2020. Led by David Porteous, Nolwazi…
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LISTEN NOW: State of Aadhaar – A People’s Perspective
A decade after the launch of Aadhaar, this webinar looks at a resident’s perspective on…
Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Podcast Series
Tune in to hear the Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation (M4H) team discuss key issues with…
Identity Proofing for COVID-19 Recovery
In order to address the systemic as well as the immediate challenges associated with COVID-19,…
Women, Work and ID
Digital identity — or identification in a digital age — is often pursued from the supply…
Financial Inclusion for Fishing Communities through Digital Identity – Mobitel Sri Lanka
The Mobile for Development Digital Identity programme has been supporting digital identity innovations to improve…
Good ID in Latin America
Digital identity is essential for the sustainable digital transformation of society, the public sector and…
Biometric Recognition and Authentication Systems
This guidance outlines the security profiles of biometric recognition technologies, and how to build secure…
Innovative Mobile Digital Identity Solutions: Financial Inclusion and Birth Registration
This case study looks at two start-ups that are using mobile technology to establish functional…
Opportunities for Improving Digital Identification in Social Cash Transfer Programmes through Mobile: Insights from Kenya and Malawi
Through qualitative and quantitative research with more than 540 people across the two countries –…
Access to Mobile Services and Proof of Identity
The ability to prove one’s identity is essential to securing both rights and access to…
LISTEN NOW: Bias, Blind Spots and Bad Identity Systems – Why the Digital Identity Industry Needs Diversity
This webinar led by Emma Lindley, co-founder of Women in Identity and Chief Commercial Officer…
Citizens and States: How Can Digital ID and Payments Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?
In Bangladesh, a mother can now receive her child’s education scholarship through her mobile phone…
Guidance on Digital ID
Digital ID systems are evolving rapidly. To determine whether a digital ID is suitable, governments,…
Leveraging Mobile to Accelerate Digital Identity Ecosystems: Considerations for Policymakers in Africa
The white paper written by Yiannis Theodorou, Acting Head of Digital Identity at GSMA, discusses…
Passwordless Authentication: The Next Breakthrough in Secure Digital Transformation
Authentication is the cornerstone of secure digital transformation for platform businesses, and beyond that, a…
The Identities Research Project
The Identities research project explores user experiences of identity technology, brought to you by Caribou…
Digital Identity and Social Cash Transfers
The efficient implementation of social protection systems – and particularly social cash transfers – requires…
Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development
In 2017, a group of development partners, international organizations, government agencies, and NGOs actively working…
Digital Identity Tracker
The Digital ID Tracker®, produced in collaboration with PYMNTS.com and Jumio, is a monthly resource…
Decentralised Identity
This short article from GSMA explains the concept of decentralised identity.
State of Aadhaar 2019
Conceived as an ambitious project to provide universal identity to more than one billion Indians,…
The Role of Digital Identification in Agriculture : Emerging Applications
Agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty. Agriculture accounts…
Privacy by Design : Current Practices in Estonia, India, and Austria
Digital identification systems, integrated with civil registration, can play a transformational role across many development…
Advancing Financial Inclusion through Digital ID
In Peru, a public–private initiative uses the country’s national ID system to verify users of…
How To: Create Digital ID for Inclusive Development
This guide from USAID explores the intersections between development programmes and broader ID systems. Targeted…
Blockchain and Digital Identity
There are few things more central to a functioning society and economy than identity. Without a…
Blockchain: Cutting through the noise
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), often referred to as blockchain, has garnered a lot of attention…
Digital Identification & Finance Initiative Africa: An Overview of Research Opportunities
This white paper, provides a summary of the channels through which the knowledge and technological…
Economic Identities for Small Business Owners: Insights from Nigeria
Recent end-user research conducted by the GSMA Digital Identity programme highlighted that informal business owners…
Cybersecurity Guideline for Payment Service Providers
The Cental Bank of Kenya has developed a Cybersecurity Guideline for Payment Service Providers (PSPs).…
Digital Identity Series
DAI produced a Digital Identity Series, which gives and overview of Digital ID. Connect to…
Digital identity opportunities for women: Insights from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Rwanda
Drawing on in-country qualitative research, this study from the GSMA explores the specific incentives, challenges,…
LISTEN NOW: The FinTech Stack
In this exclusive webinar, Ignacio Mas, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI), …
Un-Blocking identity in a Digital World
Distributed Ledger technology (DLT) is often held up as a solution for payments, money transfers…
Digital Identity: Restoring Trust in a Digital World
This paper from Mastercard presents a vision of how digital interactions will evolve. It describes…
Mobile-enabled Economic Identities for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
The report highlights key research findings that show how the ubiquity of mobile technology has…
Exploring the Gender Gap in Identification: Policy Insights from 10 Countries
This 10-country study by the GSMA explores the intersection between cultural, social and policy barriers…
Innovative Mobile Solutions Linking Health and Identity
This case study explores four innovative mobile-enabled health solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia which…
Digital Identity Opportunities in Zambia, Uganda, Sri-Lanka and Malawi
Over one billion people around the world, including more than 230 million women and girls…
Digital Identity Ecosystems
Identity is a data-rich key that acts to unlock all levels of the emerging digital…
E-Identity Solutions in Europe – An European overview
Digital identity solutions are essential for a European internal market. Europe can benefit from the…
Mobile Strong Customer Authentication under PSD2: Comparisons and Considerations
The new PSD2 regulations will bring about major changes to the digital security landscape. Among…
The Value of Digital ID for the Global Economy and Society
“Good” use of digital identification is a new frontier in value creation for individuals, companies,…
G20 Digital Identity Onboarding
The G20 recognizes the key role of financial inclusion in supporting the move towards an…
Introduction to Self-Sovereign Identity and Its 10 Guiding Principles
There is no consensus on an exact definition of self-sovereign identity yet. This paper uses the…
Digital Identity Road Map Guide
The Digital Identity Roadmap Guide is a comprehensive guideline useful for identifying the main aspects…
The difference Between Digital Identity, Identification, and ID
We use the terms Digital Identity, Digital Identification and Digital ID day in and day…
Private Sector Digital Identity in Emerging Markets
Identity has always been a complicated subject, as we are seen to have multiple facets…
Global ID Coverage, Barriers, and Use by the Numbers: Insights from the ID4D-Findex Survey
Trusted and inclusive identification (ID) systems can serve as a powerful tool for development, accelerating…
Roadmap for Digital Birth Registration: Identity for Every Child through the Power of Mobile
This 6-page document provides an overview of the Roadmap for Digital Birth Registration. It is…
6 Things You May Not Know About Biometrics
Biometrics hold significant promise and are likely the future of identification and identity verification. However,…
Roadmap for Digital Birth Registration: Insights on Scale and Sustainability from Pakistan
This Roadmap for Digital Birth Registration is a guide for MNOs and their partners who…
Digital Identity for Smallholder Farmers: Insights from Sri Lanka
This report highlights key findings from the Digital Identity programme’s qualitative research in Sri Lanka,…
Biometrics and financial inclusion: A roadmap for implementing biometric identity systems in sub-Saharan Africa
The World Bank (2017) estimates that 1.1 billion people live without proof of identity. Nearly…
Identities Report
This study, draws on interviews with 150 diverse individuals and dozens of professional stakeholders throughout India, to explore…
Digital Identity Guidelines
These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not…
Digital Identity: The Essential Guide
This guide produced by ID4Africa gives an overview of the importance of digital identity as…
The Application of Digital Identity in the United States
Identity theft affected nearly 18 million people in the United States in 2014 and resulted…
Portable Identity
This paper on Portable Identity explores the concept, pros and cons. Portable Identity is the…
Innovations in Mobile Birth Registration: Insights from Tigo Tanzania and Telenor Pakistan
The ability to prove one’s identity is essential to securing a number of life-enhancing services…
Digital Identity: Towards Shared Principles for Public and Private Sector Cooperation
The ability to prove one’s identity is increasingly recognized as the basis for participation in…
The Role of Identification in the post 2015 Development Agenda
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The role of identity and…
Minding the Identity Gaps
This paper by David Porteous and Ignacio Mas highlights that we should not get caught…
Identification for Development: The Biometrics Revolution
This paper by Centre for Global Development surveys 160 cases where biometric identification has been…