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ID systems analysed: Aadhaar

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Aadhaar (Hindi for ‘foundation’) is India’s ID programme, the largest in the world, surpassing 1 billion sign ups in just under 6 years. This programme aims to give every citizen a unique, biometrically-verifiable identification number. Each user receives a card with their number on

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Why we need to talk about digital health

In this piece we outline the main discussions and measures we need to see being systematically adopted to inform decision-making about digital solutions in the health sector, and provide examples of where these were not integrated in decision-making processes and with what consequences.

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ID systems analysed: MOSIP

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The Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) is an open source, open standards based foundational identity platform. MOSIP is an API first platform that can be used by user organisations such as Governments to build their own foundational

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News

19th August 2021

Afghanistan: What Now After Two Decades of Building Data-Intensive Systems?

7th July 2021

IPANDETEC publish a report on the development of digital identities in Central America

7th July 2021

The UK Government should drop plans for compulsory ID presentation at the polling station

6th February 2020

Why the Huduma Namba ruling matters for the future of digital ID, and not just in Kenya

17th October 2019

The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems

18th September 2019

New Report Underlines the EU’s Strategy in the War on Migration: Border Externalisation

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Examples of Abuse

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Health IDs in India: Voluntary or Mandatory?

In January 2021, the Indian Health Ministry officially allowed Aadhaar-based authentication when creating a UHID for identification and authentication of beneficiaries for various health IT applications promoted by the Ministry. This enabled the Co-Win portal, which is used to book COVID-19
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PI joins civil society in concerns over Mexico’s World Bank funded digital ID scheme

Mexico's proposed new CUID biometric ID card, funded by the a $225 million loan from the World Bank, has been criticised by civil society organisations.

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