{"id":1433,"date":"2021-03-18T09:54:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovatrics.com\/trustreport\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T08:49:55","slug":"trust-is-earnedand-you-need-to-show-value-in-order-to-earn-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovatrics.com\/trustreport\/trust-is-earnedand-you-need-to-show-value-in-order-to-earn-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust is earned, and you need to show value in order to earn it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yemi Keri<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Yemi Keri<\/strong> is CEO of Lagos-based company Heckerbella<\/em> \u2013 a technology consultancy providing a range of services, from core biometrics to software solutions that help governments automate and streamline processes and increase internally generated revenue. Yemi is one of the foremost women in technology in Nigeria, and an angel investor helping other women start their own businesses within the network Rising Tide Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Africa’s digital revolution is transforming the continent. Our economy has been at record pace and our growth has been gradually increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of the African countries are trying to meet the targets of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Some of the UN\u2019s goals are about education, some are connected to poverty alleviation, but all of them need a certain level of identity identification in order to be achieved. This is why a deliberate action for the collation of citizen identification data is now taking off here, and just as in other continents, we are beginning to use biometric technology in order to do so.
In Nigeria, for instance, we\u2019ve been trying to improve national identification for many years and we’ve learned that the environment in itself needs to be trustworthy for this to succeed.
For the last decade, Nigeria has been saying that we have 180 to 200 million citizens. But actually, there is no factual data that can enable us to know that. This has lead Nigeria to try and better identify its citizens \u2013 all citizens need to have a national identification number.
Critically, having accurate data on the population is important for the nation\u2019s welfare and the services that the government wants to provide. It is important for planning and budgeting in the terms of economy. The registration of citizens will be a great advantage in terms of the coming Covid-19 vaccines, as it can help us to plan a good distribution of the vaccines. For healthcare, education\u2026 basically for any government initiative that should have an impact on people’s lives, the correct identification of its citizens is crucial.
One of the methods that our government has recently implemented in order to achieve this is mobile phones. Users need to connect their phones to themselves; to their identities, to enable the phone to work. We estimate that if we can drive every person with a mobile device to register their national identity, we will have at least 80 to 90% of the population registered and identified. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How is technology changing Africa? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its countries are often leading innovation where reliable identification is critical. Watch Yemi Keri\u2019s talk at Trust Report conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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