Launch catch up: Digital Identity Programme

Written By Katherine Selby

The Cambridge DPI Regulatory Programme: Digital Identity is a new global initiative designed to strengthen regulatory and policy capacity around digital identity systems as a foundational element of Digital Public Infrastructure.

As digital identity becomes central to financial inclusion, public service delivery and digital economy growth, policymakers face complex regulatory questions - including how to design governance models, ensure interoperability, manage data protection risks, enable e-KYC innovation and promote trusted adoption.

This programme will serve public authorities and ecosystem stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries where digital identity systems are at a pivotal stage of development: Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya in Africa, and India, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand in Asia. This includes within central banks, ministries of finance and digital transformation, data protection authorities, telecommunications regulators, financial supervisors and competition authorities.

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How can digital identity and e-KYC frameworks be implemented to strengthen trust, financial inclusion, and economic impact? Catch up on the launch event for this programme below, to glean insights from our high-level panel and further information on the programme’s aims.

Speakers:

  • Deogratius Kiggued, Program Manager, The Upanzi Network, Carnegie Mellon University Africa

  • Julia Clark, Lead Specialist, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Government, The World Bank

  • Tom Carpenter, Senior Vice President for Global Services Policy, Mastercard

  • Yodahe Zemichael, Executive Director, National Identification Program for Ethiopia

Welcome remarks:

  • Eilís Ferran, Provost, Gates Cambridge Trust & Professor of Company and Securities Law, University of Cambridge

  • Mark Peterson, Senior Program Officer, Digital Public Infrastructure, Gates Foundation

  • Pavle Avramovic, Director of Research & Policy, Fii

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