Can biometrics beat the developing world's challenges?. (November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Storisteanu, Daniel M.L.; Norman, Toby L.; Grigore, Alexandra; Labrique, Alain B.
• Is Part Of: Biometric technology today. Number 11(2016)
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 9
• Publication Date: 2016-11
• Subjects: Biometry -- Periodicals; Biometric identification -- Periodicals; Personal identification products industry -- Periodicals; 338.4757015195
• DOI: 10.1016/S0969-4765(16)30193-X
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-4765

Abstract

Abstract : The World Bank estimates that as many as 1.5bn people worldwide do not officially exist. This lack of formal identification is a key challenge across the developing world – without reliable, unique and persistent identifiers, governments and development organisations struggle to provide essential goods and services to the populations they serve. The problem is wide-ranging: the dynamic nature of subsistence or agricultural communities and largely dysfunctional civil registration systems, combined with rapid population growth, have led to communities which are uncountable and poorly censused. Paper-based identity systems are resource-intensive, fragile and easily manipulated.