Advancing interoperability in Africa: Overcoming challenges for digital integration

In a session about interoperability of identity data and systems at this year’s ID4Africa conference, Dr. Victor Amadi, a research fellow at the Center for Comparative Law in Africa within the University of Cape Town, South Africa, pins Africa’s challenges with infrastructure, unreliable electricity and high energy costs as a key factor that can hinder the deployment and maintenance of digital systems.

Amadi, who has been studying cross-border issues and migration, said at ID4Africa 2024 that integrating new …

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