Philippines’ digital ID registration expands to more remote areas

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced it has reached 90 percent of its registration target for the PhilSys digital identity system and that it is pushing to improve registration access for more remote areas of the Agusan del Norte province. As of December 18th, 2023, over 82.8 million Filipinos are already registered in the system, the government says in an announcement.

As of December 22nd, the PSA has printed and dispatched for delivery over 50 million PhilIDs for registrants. The …

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