Category: Digital wallet

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Opportunities for Integrating Functional Digital ID into Humanitarian Action

Today’s rapid technological development, changing humanitarian needs, and new forms of emergency present new challenges to humanitarian organizations responding to disasters. At the same time 1 billion people globally, some of whom...
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Digital IDs in the humanitarian sector: what’s the big deal?

Oldoniyro, Kenya 2018: In a field pilot utilizing cash assistance and blockchain technology conducted by the Kenya Red Cross and IFRC, it was recognized that lack of official ID was a hindrance...
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Innovative Solution Design and Procurement

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about and requests to share from our project process, and in particular the “untraditional” way of designing the solution in a more innovative way. In the...
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Layering Digital ID on Top of Traditional Data Management

n recent years, beneficiaries of humanitarian response and their advocates have become increasingly wary of programs leveraging emerging technologies, especially where they involve the use of personally identifiable information (PII). In 2015...
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E4C research: Dignified Identity in Cash Assistance in East Africa

This DIGID-commissioned research by Engineering for Change (E4C) is written by Senka Hadzic and was initially published on the E4C website. JANUARY 12, 2020 DIGNIFIED ID IN CASH ASSISTANCE IN EAST AFRICA...
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Digital ID Workshop Summary – Kenya May 2019

Download as PDF OVERVIEW The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) hosted a Digital ID High-Level Design Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya...
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Input to Norwegian MFA’s 2018 Digitalization Strategy

Input to Norwegian MFA’s Digitalization Strategy (June 2018) PDF  As part of the Norwegian MFA’s new digitalization strategy for the humanitarian sector, HIP provided input on important enabling and limiting factors that...
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Co-Ed: “Digital Innovation Saves Lives”

As a response to Minister Astrup’s chronicle on the importance of digitalization in the future of humanitarian work, HIP provided input on how we together can build an enabling environment that foster...
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Funding for humanitarian innovation

To share experiences, ideas and reflections with donors, HIP authored a paper (Nov 2017) outlining funding modalities that could further enable and foster innovation in the humanitarian sector. This paper (docx) was...