A person’s identity is more than just a mere document with personal information. It is the right to vote, to have access to education and health services and to participate in economic activities. It is a citizen’s right to a bright and equitable future. IDINA’s purpose is to create a platform that guarantees the official identity of all citizens in an effective and inclusive way, in countries where official civil registration infrastructures are lacking or non-existent.
Local entities can provide and certify identification attributes of individuals with whom they interact daily.
IDINA consolidates and preserves the quality of the data provided by distributed and non-coordinated entities.
They can use the non-authoritative identity provided by IDINA for the full exercise of citizenship.
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 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 […]
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 […]