Civil Registration Centre for Development, The Hague and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg

Bhalisa 1 | The Hague Colloquium on the Future of Legal Identity | Panels

Panel Theme

Tuesday - 21 April 2015 10:00 - 12:00 : Biometric and civil registration systems as alternatives or complements

Tuesday - 21 April 2015 12:00 - 13:30 : Technical limits and capacities of biometric and paper-based registration

Tuesday - 21 April 2015 15:00 - 17:00 : The effects of registration systems on administrative capacity and state architectures

Wednesday - 22 April 2015 09:30 - 11:00 : The social and political effects of civil registration and identification systems on human agency: Statelessness

Wednesday - 22 April 2015 11:15 - 12:45 : The social and political effects of civil registration and identification systems on human agency: Rights and vital statistics

Wednesday - 22 April 2015 13:30 - 15:00 : Biometric and civil registration and the national security imperative

Wednesday - 22 April 2015 15:15 - 16:30 : The limits and capacities of privatised registration, privacy law and regulation

Thursday - 23 April 2015 09:30 - 11:00 : The implications of revenue models and sustainability for registration systems

Thursday - 23 April 2015 11:00 - 11:30 : The long-term determinants of registration capacity and architecture

Tuesday, 21 April, 2015 - 10:00 : Biometric and civil registration systems as alternatives or complements

 

Chair: Keith Breckenridge Commentator/s: Simon Szreter

Alan Gelb - Unique Legal Identity and the Spread of National Identification Programs
Eddy Higgs - Citizens, Communities and the Rise of Biometrics in England
Edgar Whitley - Multiplicity and legibility: Questioning uniqueness in identity infrastructures

Tuesday, 21 April, 2015 - 12:00 : Technical limits and capacities of biometric and paper-based registration

 

Chair: Alan Gelb Commentator/s: Ornit Shani

Armando Cutolo - The social life of ID Cards. Ethnography of identification in Côte d’Ivoire
Mariana Dahan, Alan Gelb - The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Ravi Sundaram - The ecology of Aadhaar: Biometrics, Paper ecologies and governance

Tuesday, 21 April, 2015 - 15:00 : The effects of registration systems on administrative capacity and state architectures

 

Chair: Jonathan Klaaren Commentator/s: Keith Breckenridge

Ornit Shani - Making Democratic Citizenship in the World’s Largest Democracy: The Preparation of India’s First Electoral Roll on the Basis of Universal Adult Franchise
Amanda Flaim - Protecting Identity or Expanding Identification? Exploring the Mixed Implications of Universal Birth Registration in Thailand
Giulia Piccolino - Making Democracy Legible? The Politics of Voter Registration and the Permanent Electronic Electoral List (LEPI) in Benin

Wednesday, 22 April, 2015 - 09:30 : The social and political effects of civil registration and identification systems on human agency: Statelessness

 

Chair: Laura van Waas Commentator/s: Jackie Bhabha

Radha Govil - Is the concept of legal identity relevant to UNHCR's statelessness mandate?
Mary Lagaay - Birth registration and children’s rights: a complex story
Bronwen Manby - Biometric identification and the right to a nationality in Africa: Three case studies

Wednesday, 22 April, 2015 - 11:15 : The social and political effects of civil registration and identification systems on human agency: Rights and vital statistics

 

Chair: Giulia Piccolino Commentator/s: Simon Szreter

Carla AbouZahr - The role of the health sector in CRVS and the potential of unique individual identifiers for improved mortality statistics
Juliana Vengoechea Barrios - Documentation of identity: Implications for Citizenship and Participation
Jackie Bhabha - Addressing Invisibility? Probing India's Aadhaar Card and its Promise of Inclusion.
Helge Brunborg, Marianne Henriksen - How can a comprehensive population register contribute to civil registration and the lives of individuals?

Wednesday, 22 April, 2015 - 13:30 : Biometric and civil registration and the national security imperative

 

Chair: Bronwen Manby Commentator/s: Alan Gelb

Laurent Fourchard - Producing certificates of origins and implementing legal discrimination in Nigeria
Eivind Hoffmann - Who are you? Issues and processes when determining the identity of a person
Anna Rader - Verification and Legibility in Somaliland's National Identity Card Scheme

Wednesday, 22 April, 2015 - 15:15 : The limits and capacities of privatised registration, privacy law and regulation

 

Chair: Eddy Higgs Commentator/s: Bronwen Manby, Erik Bähre

Jonathan Klaaren - The Regulation of identification: Where to Globally From Here?
Laura Mann - A Political Economy Approach to the Big Data Revolution in Development
Edgar Whitley - Outsourcing the state? The shifting involvement of private sector enterprises in legal identity infrastructures

Thursday, 23 April, 2015 - 09:30 : The implications of revenue models and sustainability for registration systems

 

Chair: Ornit Shani Commentator/s: Eddy Higgs

Neo Corneliah Lepang - Identity Management and Service Delivery : Botswana
Jaap van der Straaten - The Economics of Civil Identity Management: The Case of Africa
Sanjay Dharwadker - Future of Legal Identity – The Supply-side
Mia Harbitz - The Inter - American Development Bank and Population Registration in Latin America