The Central Bank of Kenya has announced that it will in the next four years work towards curtailing the dominance of mobile money service Mpesa. This is part of the National Payments Strategy for the period 2022-2025. Mpesa facili...
A joint report by the EU's banking, insurance and markets watchdogs has raised concern over the risks associated with digital finance. Noting that digital finance had opened new synergies between financial and non-financial activi...
Tanzania's Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) has introduced an electronic system for registration of trustees, eliminating the need for trustees to physically visit RITA's offices. The system is part of the co...
An Indian High Court will consider whether police can access the Aadhar database to help identify a person accused of murder. The application by the police to access Aadhar is opposed by the Unique Identification Authority of Indi...
Nepal's Department of Land Management and Archive (DOLMA) has introduced a Land Record Information Management System (LRIMS) that captures land-related transactions. Developed by RMSI, a geospatial and engineering company, the sys...
South Africa's Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced that new smart card driving licences will be introduced in October 2023. Existing cards will be phased out over a five-year period. The Minister added that the Road Tr...
Sri Lanka's Cabinet has approved a memorandum of understanding with India that will see India give Sri Lanka a grant for a unitary digital ID project. This follows bilateral talks between the President and the Prime Minister of In...
A company that missed out on a multimillion Rand contract to supply biometric services to South Africa's Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has sued the South African government for awarding the contract to Idemia, against public pr...
Australian law enforcement agencies are actively seeking support from community members to protect children from online abuse. Recently the Australian Center to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) and Australian Federal Police (AFP...
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has published the 2021 edition of its Artificial Intelligence Index Report, looking at the impact and progress of artificial intelligence (AI) in seven key ar...
Facebook will launch its news portal from May. The service will offer articles from more than 100 current German media outlets, including the national publisherDie ZeitandDer Spiegelto regional publications like theRheinische Post...
Researchers at the Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University found that politically extreme sources on Facebook tend to generate more interactions from users. Especially, posts from sources rated as far-right syst...