Mass catch ups and SMS – Digitech Development (ep. 7‪)‬ ID16.9 Podcast

Technology and teamwork can help reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 of legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030.
Digitech Development, a division of French firm Digitech, has developed a way to securely send birth notification details by SMS to the civil registry, allowing birth registration even when 2G connectivity is unavailable.
The company began by scanning documents in French town halls in the 1990s.
Digitech Development’s Margaux Audet explains how the technology is working in Côte d'Ivoire and how the firm was part of a consortium that carried out a mass ‘catch up’ exercise in the Democratic Republic of Congo which registered the births of 2.4 million primary school children who had not been registered following their births.
https://digitech-development.com
Find out more about the ID 16.9 Podcast and the importance of legal identity at https://id169.com
Produced and hosted by Frank Hersey at Biometric Update https://www.biometricupdate.com