Region
Africa
Enables service providers to collect a KYC packet of profile information
Unknown
Transparency in processes to access, review, edit and delete one's identity data
Unknown
Allow digital authentication
Yes
Allow individuals to use a SSO or esign facility to authenticate themselves through a single government portal
Unknown
Claim to have a digital identity
Yes
Collects or uses biometric data
Yes
Data Protection Act
Yes
Digital identity has legal status
Unknown
Entities other than the owner or operator use the digital identity infrastructure
Unknown
Governance structure responsible for de digital identity
Ministry of Home Affairs
Identity act establishes the accountability of the ID executors to the ID authority
No
Identity act or civil registry act
Yes
Identity authority is subject to courts oversight
Unknown
Identity infrastructure enable at least two sectoral use cases
Unknown
Identity system is under the purview of Freedom of Information Law
Unknown
Legally binding redressal mechanism
Customer service mechanism
Name of the identity
Maisha Namba/ National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS)
Organizations providing funding
Gates Foundation
Organizations providing technical support
Unknown
Personal data breach notification
Yes
Procedural rules for the ID
Unknown
Qualitative status for implementation
High court halted roll-out of pilot implementation given privacy concerns. But in 2024 it was again rolled out. In 2024, the country announced the opening of new digital ID registration centers and the involvement of local chiefs in sensitization campaigns as part of efforts to ramp up registration for birth certificates and the Maisha digital ID, amidst design irregularities and exclusion concerns.
Quantitative status of implementation
Pilot
Secondary act or policy for digital identity
Yes
Transparency about collection, storage and sharing of personal data
Unknown
Type of institutional governance structure
Others
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