HID, a trusted global provider of identity solutions, is showcasing its cutting-edge advancements in document design, biometric technologies, and secure issuance solutions at ID4Africa. The event, held at the Edge Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya from May 22-25, presents an opportunity for HID to demonstrate their game-changing contributions in design, security, enrollment, authentication, and verification.
ID4Africa is an NGO committed to supporting African nations in enhancing their public and technical systems for identity-related solutions and applications, catering to development and humanitarian efforts. In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 500 million individuals lack any form of official identification. With HID’s solutions, African governments will possess the necessary tools to issue secure and official IDs, driver’s licenses, and passports. This enables citizens to establish their identities and access crucial services such as healthcare, education, and finance. Over the years, HID has successfully provided essential identification solutions to citizens in various countries including Tanzania, Morocco, Angola, and other nations within the region.
With more than 30 years of experience knowledge, expertise and local partnerships HID’s trusted identities solutions showcased at the show will include:
Award-Winning Document Design – Robust, award-winning document designs with integrated chips that store the holder’s biometric data, color portrait and HID’s exclusive Mirage™ technology—which combines five methods of security—make documents extremely difficult to reproduce, as week as Safelink, a new hinge feature designed for maximum security.
Secure, Streamlined and Personalized Government ID Issuance – Polycarbonate has already been adopted by many governments for use in passport datapages, but now it is increasingly being sought out for national ID cards and driver’s licenses as well—thanks to its extreme durability and opportunity to integrate multiple security features, including laser engraving. HID will be showcasing, for the first time, a new self-service kiosk that allows citizens to customize their own credentials, as well as a new laser engraving system capable of etching permanent and secure multi-faceted security elements into identification cards with unprecedented ease and speed.
Biometric enrollment and authentication – Using a person’s unique biometric traits—fingerprints or faces—biometrics deliver the most reliable identity assurance, because they can’t be lost, stolen or shared. Biometric authentication solutions are ideal to fast-track background checks, optimize border security and streamline voter registration, among other use cases. Recognized as a global leader in biometric authentication by Frost & Sullivan, HID will be showcasing its award-winning biometric technologies, including fingerprint readers, tenprint and palm scanners, facial recognition and livescan jumpkit.
Visit HID from May 23-25 in Booth #H2-45 at the Edge Convention Centre in Nairobi to learn more about HID’s broad range products, solutions and services that empower African governments to address challenges they face in issuing credentials to remote locations while also serving high-volume needs of large metropolitan areas.
