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
No
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
No
Entities other than the owner or operator use the digital identity infrastructure
Unknown
Governance structure responsible for de digital identity
Department of National Registration, Passports and Citizenship
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
No
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
None
Name of the identity
National digital Identity
Organizations providing funding
Government of Japan UNDP
Organizations providing technical support
Veridos Dermalog
Personal data breach notification
Yes
Procedural rules for the ID
No
Qualitative status for implementation
Zambia launched the production rollout (phase 2) of the Integrated National Registration Information System (INRIS) project in 2022, meant to enroll millions of citizens for a national digital ID card as one of the ways of accelerating the country’s digital government and digital transformation plans.
Quantitative status of implementation
Rollout
Secondary act or policy for digital identity
No
Transparency about collection, storage and sharing of personal data
No
Type of institutional governance structure
ID or Registration Authority