NIDP

For the past couple of months, Ethiopia has been on a journey to provide its citizens with biometric-enabled digital IDs, as this is the foundation upon which all digital services and transactions can take place in a trusted framework. Yodahe Zemichael, the Executive Director of Ethiopia’s National ID Program (NIDP), told Biometrics Update during the ID4Africa Augmented General Meeting in Morocco this month that the country is well on its way to meeting the target of 70 million citizens by 2025. Following a pilot project and field tests, the venture is now in the use case pilot phase, with a…