{"id":4826,"date":"2016-06-20T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2016-07-27T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:15:39","slug":"africa-benefits-from-biometrics-as-an-identifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/africa-benefits-from-biometrics-as-an-identifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa benefits from biometrics as an identifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a guest post by David Gerulski, VP at Integrated Biometrics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.id4africaforum.com\/2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">ID4Africa forum<\/a>\u00a0in Kigali, Rwanda was as exciting as it was insightful, with a buzz surrounding new technologies for launching digital ID systems throughout the continent. For mobile biometrics specifically, what is going on in Africa is truly a case of technology rising to meet the demands of a populace.<\/p>\n<p>The push for biometrics in Africa accelerated in September 2015, when world leaders adopted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/content\/documents\/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf&amp;embedded=true\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development<\/a>. This ambitious agenda included 17 sustainable development goals and 169 associated targets. Goal 16 is to, \u201cPromote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels\u201d with subset 16.9, \u201cBy 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biometricupdate.com\/201606\/africa-benefits-from-biometrics-as-an-identifier\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a guest post by David Gerulski, VP at Integrated Biometrics The recent\u00a0ID4Africa forum\u00a0in Kigali, Rwanda was as exciting as it was insightful, with a buzz surrounding new technologies for launching digital ID systems throughout the continent. For mobile biometrics specifically, what is going on in Africa is truly a case of technology rising [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-blog-posts","item-year-395","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}