Digital Identity and Data Privacy in Africa : Research Notes and Links
https://wiser.wits.ac.za/ResearchingDigID
Tools for researching Digital Identity on the African Continent
Use a documentary database management tool – Zotero https://www.zotero.org (keeping track of the changing web, sharing)
* Good summary overview : Gelb and Metz Identification Revolution
* Biometric Update : https://www.biometricupdate.com/digital-id-biometrics-developing-nations
** Linked to ID4AFRICA http://www.id4africa.com/
> Google News Alerts
* World Bank ID4D – : https://id4d.worldbank.org/
Country Briefs are invaluable (although also constrained)
Other World Bank reports, especially on digitisation and infrastructure, also invaluable and extensive
* CGAP – mobile payment infrastructures https://www.cgap.org
* GSMA (Global System for Mobile Comms) https://www.gsma.com/identity/identity-programme
* Consulting Firms
Mckinsey https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/middle-east-and-africa
* Government reports, Commissions, Court Cases
** Budgets, Revenue Authority Annual Reports :
Eg : http://icta.go.ke/presentations/
** White Papers http://www.dha.gov.za/
* NGO reports
Finmark Trust (SADC) http://finmark.org.za/_research-themes/innovation/
Financial Sector Deepening : https://www.fsdkenya.org
* Host of commissioned research projects : Caribou Digital, Microsave
Mostly these are advocates – Finding Critics
https://scholar.google.com (Most academics …)
University Dspace Repositories (especially European and American)
Privacy International – Tom Fisher https://privacyinternational.org/people/908/dr-tom-fisher
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