Nepal’s digital identity transformation fosters challenges

In striving to develop a comprehensive digital identity system, Nepal is embarking on a transformative journey, promising to overhaul the governance system, improve service provision, and drive economic development. This ambitious endeavor started in 2012 and aims to replace traditional paper-based citizenship certificates with biometric smart national ID cards that contain photos, personal data, and fingerprint biometrics. Major achievements under the project include the recent implementation of unique ID numbers assigned at birth and the issuance of millions of digital …

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