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Secure Identity Alliance says Nigieran NIMC pioneers Africa's first mobile identity ecosystem

Thursday 13 May 2021 | 13:47 CET | News
The Secure Identity Alliance (SIA), a global identity and secure digital services advisory body, said that Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is pioneering Africa's first mobile identity ecosystem. NIMC is using open standard interface APIs (OSIAs) to verify unique identities against the National Identity Registry. The NIMC Mobile ID system for Nigeria was developed by Common Identity, an African software company that belongs to the OSIA Initiative. 

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