DIGITAL ID TALK: The Inclusion and Exclusion of National IDs
Channel: Centre for  IP & IT Law (CIPIT)
Date: 28/06/2021

On April 30, 2021, CIPIT hosted the Digital ID Talk. The talk sparked conversations around the issue of the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of National IDs in Africa, specifically, West Africa and East Africa.

Many digital ID policy papers recommend that digital IDs be inclusive and call for governments to eliminate exclusion. But how do digital ID systems come to be inclusive or exclusive? Is it in the design of the projects or are there structural issues that contribute to exclusion? 

Teki Akuetteh-Falconer from African Digital Rights Hub https://africadigitalrightshub.org/, discusses on the ground experiences on inclusion and exclusion from three West African countries. The report can be found here https://cipit.strathmore.edu/our-id-experience/#1619615921666-452bd3a8-7761
Yussuf Bashir from Haki na Sheria Initiative Kenya http://hakinasheria.org/, and Dorothy Mukasa from Unwanted Witness https://www.unwantedwitness.org/ share nuanced experiences on how digital ID projects can include or exclude sections of society from an East African perspective.

For more on CIPIT’s work on Digital ID, visit our website https://cipit.strathmore.edu/our-id-experience/

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