Bhalisa 3 | Jesus and St Johns Colleges, Cambridge | March 19 - 21, 2019

Bhalisa 3 | Cambridge | Panels

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 - 11:30pm

(SA time)

See the list of panels below.

The third biennial workshop of the Bhalisa network takes its focus from an important new problem for economics, governance and justice in countries with histories of weak state administration: Does machine-based identification strengthen or weaken the dispersed and delegated processes of registration of the poor and the marginal? This key problem unsurprisingly has led to questions in the realm of law and policy, in civil registration in general, and at the interface of machine learning, particularly with fast-developing private credit markets in poor countries. In this workshop we aim to develop criteria across fields and regions for evaluating how investments in digital technologies of identification and credit risk assessment effect the less visible administrative processes of civil registration.

Venue: The workshop will take place in the Webb Library at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

For a detailed summary of the discussion at this event see Ross Anderson's live blog at https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2019/03/19/future-id/.

Day 1 -- March 19, 2019
Introductions and opening
Day 1 : 9:00 to 9:30	Subhashish	Bhadra	Omidyar Research
1 Global comparisons of ID systems	Ross	Anderson	What's in a name? The changing nature of identity, online and off
Day 1 : 9:30 to 11:15	Eddie	Higgs	Facial biometrics and the new physiognomy
Chair : Keith Breckenridge	Wendy	Hunter	Undocumented Americans
	Amba	Kak	(Re)claiming data colonization?: Interrogating official narratives from India, China and Europe
	Ian	Watson	The Nordic ID Model: A Guidepost for the Future or a Relic from the Past?
Refreshments
2 Competing Models of Privacy and Data Regulation	Edwin	Abuya	Access to Information & Privacy Rights: Reviewing the East African Record
Day 1 : 11:30 to 13:00	Gautam	Bhatia	Aadhaar and Privacy
Chair : Jon Klaaren	Marianne	Henriksen	Current developments in Norwegian population registration, digital-ID and biometric capture
	Jonathan	Klaaren	Participation in Financialized Markets in Africa: Regulatory Pluralism in Privacy, Competition, and Registration Regimes
	Ranjit	Singh	Memory practices of Platforms: Aadhaar as a Know-Your-Resident Modality
Lunch
3 Credit surveillance as alternative or platform for civil registration	Johann	Bezuidenhout	Breaking service exclusion barriers using alternative approaches to Functional Credential Registration and Issuance
Day 1: 14:00 to 15:30	Roland	Claussen	Predictive power of (German) credit information, and its application to microfinance lending in East Africa
Chair : Edgar Whitley	Gabriel	Davel	Credit Markets in Africa: Potential & limitations of technology and digital credit to overcome traditional constraints to credit supply
	Bulelani	Jili	Chinese social scoring and African surveillance states
Refreshments
4 Comparative Costs and Benefits of ID and Registration Projects	Bidisha / Syed Mohammed	Chaudhuri / Faisal	Examining the Foundational versus Functional ID Debate
Day 1 : 16:00 to 17:30	Marielle	Debos	The marketing of Electoral biometrics in Africa: Politics, Business and Expertise
Chair : Keith Breckenridge	Alan	Gelb	Technology and Capacity: Insights from Applications of Aadhaar
	Jaap	van der Straaten	Of Democracy and Elections in Africa—In Reverse
Day 2 -- March 20, 2019
5 Practical inclusion, or how to walk the last mile	Amiya	Bhatia	Changes in birth registration coverage between 1999 and 2015 in low and middle-income countries: Are wealth and geographic inequalities decreasing?
Day 2 : 9:00 to 10:45	Laura	Bingham	The Last Mile, Do No Harm and the Bottom Up: The Promise of Civil Society and Community Engagement in Implementing Goal 16.9
Chair : Mia Harbitz	Sanjay	Dharwadker	Emerging incompatibilities between border crossing and national identification frameworks
	Ursula	Rao	Re-spatializing social security, or how to relate hierachical states to decentral e-services
Refreshments
6 Statelessness, border-marking and migration	Natalie	Brinham	Destroying identities across borders: Rohingya refugees and biometric registration
Day 2 : 11:00 to 12:30	Fernando	de Medina Rosales	Obstacles faced by displaced persons to access civil registration and identification: NRC’s field experiences
Chair : Bronwen Manby	Eves	Hayes de Kalaf	(Re)Organising Citizens: Legal Identity, Access to Documentation and Race in Contemporary Latin America
	Bronwen	Manby	Civil registration and the creation of statelessness among migrants and refugees in North Africa
	Emrys	Schoemaker	Identity at the Margins: Examining Refugee Experiences withDigital Identity Systems in Lebanon, Jordan, and Uganda
Lunch
7 Registration and administration	John	Effah	National versus Sector Biometric Identification Systems in Ghana: Motivations, Contradictions and the Way Forward
Day 2 : 14:00 to 15:30	Christian	Lund	Another Fine Mess
Chair : SImon Szreter	Cláudio	Machado Cavalcanti	The failed institutionalization of biometric identification in Brazil and its implications
	Alena	Thiel	Database interoperability and the rehabilitation of administrative population data in Ghana
	Ornit	Shani	Registering Voters In the World’s Largest Democracy: Trajectories from India’s First Elections
Refreshments
8 Closing session
Day 2 : 16:00 to 17:00