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Bhalisa 5 | Engineering Trust : can digital identification systems repair the informational inheritance of colonial government?
Friday, 12 July, 2024 - 17:00
Short programme | Full programme, with abstracts
Thursday, Jul 11, 2024: Day 1
9:00 to 9:30 : Introductions
9:30 - 11:30 : Historical practices and their afterlives 1
| Gulshan Banas | Partial Inclusion by Uneven Documentation: Who makes it to what state record? |
| Luc Bulten | Reshaping Colonial Registration: Challenging, Utilising, and Changing the Dutch East India Company's Bureaucratic Apparatus in Early Modern Sri Lanka |
| Zehra Hashmi | Individuating a Classificatory Identity |
| Eve Hayes de Kalaf | We’re Here Because You Were There: The Windrush Scandal, Strategic Exclusion and the Hostile Environment |
11:30 - 13:00 : Historical practices and their afterlives 2
| Edward Higgs | Ambient facial recognition, identification and policing, in an historical context |
| Michelle Spektor | Biometric Statecraft, Policing, and Fingerprint Technology in Palestine/Israel, 1920-1948 |
| Keren Weitzberg | Vetting, temporality, and the 'backend' of identification in Kenya |
13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch …
14:00 – 16:00 Engineering or undermining trust? 1
| Katelyn Cioffi | Fostering trust and accountability in interoperable digital ID and social welfare systems |
| Marielle Debos | Biometric voting in Africa and the theatricalized performance of democracy |
| Sanjay Dharwadker | Identity and standards - the technical becomes both, the simulacrum and the reality |
| Georges Eyenga | The Harmony Platform in Cameroon. How to build trust through a digital public infrastructure ? |
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 18:00 Engineering or undermining trust? 2
| Leonie Felicitas Jegen | Senegal’s civil registration system: The in/exclusion paradox of “symbolic modernism” |
| Henk Marsman | The EU Digital Identity Wallet - Overview of activities on European and member state level for the amended Regulation 910/2014 (eIDAS) |
| Babatunde Okunoye | Strengthening Trust in Nigeria’s emerging digital credit market |
| Stephan Scheel | “How Can Citizenship Expire?“ – Faulty Machines, Donor Fatigue and the Undoing of Trust in Malawi’s National ID-Card Regime |
Friday, Jul 12, 2024: Day 2
9:00 - 11:00 New institutions, new politics 1
| Walter Bartl | Establishing a Register-Based Census in Spain: Preconditions and Implications |
| Héloïse Grard | The reforms of the Kenyan public service : From digital revolution to digital exclusions |
| Wendy Hunter | Becoming Citizens: Social Pensions and the Inclusion of Undocumented Elders |
| Claudio Machado and Janaina Costa | DPI Governance in Brazil: Challenges of institutional coordination of the digital identity |
11:00 – 13:00 New institutions, new politics 2
| Silvia Masiero | The Politics of Data Activism in Digital ID |
| Pariroo Rattan | Digital citizenship in India: Disconnecting a nation from its people |
| Emrys Schoemaker | Identity Wallets: from institutional politics to political individuals? |
| Marika Sosnowski | The bureaucratic revolution |
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch …
14:00 – 16:30 Achieving 16.9?
| Edwin Abuya | Universal Birth Registration: Not for Persons with Disabilities |
| Allison Petrozziello | Birth Registration as Global Governance Concern: Depoliticizing, Decoupling Rights…Derailing SDG 16.9? |
| Bronwen Manby | Schrödinger’s citizenship: The terminology of statelessness |
| [Short Break] | |
| Christoph Sperfeldt | Leaving No One Behind? The Pursuit of Universal Legal Identity in the SDGs |
| Vy Tran | Measuring legal recognition: A new analytical framework |
| Edgar Whitley | What is the economic impact of not being ID Inclusive? Some initial thoughts |
17:00 – 18:00 Wrap up
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