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Idina
22 de November, 2024

Meet IDINA: three mobile applications for building and verifying digital identities

Over the last two years, the IDINA project, focused on developing an inclusive non-authoritative digital identity system, has taken significant steps towards this goal, having developed a solution from scratch, the IDINA solution, which differs by using data from multiple entities to build people’s identities. Through entities that have contact with communities, the IDINA system […]

Idina
9 de October, 2023

IDINA participates in the West Africa Digital Governance Forum

IDINA was present at the West Africa Digital Governance Forum held in The Gambia. The event was organized by the country’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy and the United Nations University’s Operational Unit on Policy-Oriented e-Governance, together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the Economic Community of West African States. Aimed […]

Idina
16 de September, 2023

IDINA celebrates International Identity Day with the launch of its Institutional Video

We are seven years away from the date set by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals for all individuals to have legal identity recognized. But there is still a long way to go. According to recent estimates, about 850 million people have no legal identity documents — half of them in Africa. This […]

Idina
23 de June, 2023

Exchange of knowledge and experiences at the IDINA Project Expert Group Meeting

Coming from different areas of expertise, with disparate knowledge and willingness to learn more. It was with this mindset that the IDINA partners, on the 20th of June, sat down at the same table for the project’s first Expert Group Meeting, where the main objective was to reinforce the project’s potential and impact. The meeting […]

Idina
9 de June, 2023

IDINA holds its first Expert Group Meeting

On June 20, the UNU-EGOV will host IDINA’s first Expert Group Meeting. The event will gather the project’s partners and invited researchers to share knowledge on digital identification systems and discuss the challenges of deploying non-authoritative solutions in diverse social realities. The meeting will explore strategies toward identifying and motivating local entities to become reliable sources […]

Idina
10 de May, 2023

The fourth edition of the IN3+ Award is underway — and has €1 Million for the best ideas

Intending to support the creation of new ideas, national and international, IN3+ Award has already kicked of its 4th edition — The IDINA project – Non-authoritative Inclusive Digital Identity won 1st place in the last edition (2021). The initiative has, within the scope of the INCM Innovation Network, a wide network of partners that make […]

Idina
18 de April, 2023

IDINA participated in the ID16.9 Podcast by Biometric Update

This podcast is exploring the progress towards the realization of the United Nations’ goal of providing legal identity to all by 2030. Listen to the episode about IDINA here.