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Why digital identity is becoming Africa’s most critical tech infrastructure
As identity systems are connected to payments, mobile services, healthcare and government platforms, they stop being stand-alone projects. They become shared infrastructure that needs to work for everyone.
Across Africa, digital identity has become part of everyday life. Governments use it to deliver services, banks rely on it to open accounts and digital platforms depend on it to verify users.
According to the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) programme, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the only global region where ID ownership is not near-universal, with eight economies still below 70 percent coverage and persistent gender gaps in access.
