Emerging TechnologiesBiometrics and Digital Identity Systems
Digital identity programmes across Africa are enrolling populations at scale, and the same technology decides who receives a payment, who crosses a border and who is refused a service, which makes the failure modes consequential. This course covers them properly. Delegates work through biometric modalities and their accuracy characteristics, enrolment quality and why it determines everything downstream, and matching including the trade off between false accepts and false rejects. Deduplication at population scale is covered. Exclusion receives full attention: the people whose biometrics do not read and what must exist for them. Privacy, consent and data protection obligations follow. The course closes on system security, on credential design and on interoperability between schemes.
Course objectives
- Compare biometric modalities and their accuracy characteristics
- Manage enrolment quality, which determines downstream performance
- Set matching thresholds and understand the false accept and reject trade off
- Deduplicate at population scale
- Design for people whose biometrics do not read reliably
- Meet privacy, consent and data protection obligations
- Secure the system and design credentials and interoperability
Who should attend
- Government and civil registration staff
- Financial services onboarding and identity teams
- Information security and systems staff
- Privacy, legal and compliance officers
- Programme managers on identity deployments
Course outline
- 01Deciding who receives, crosses and is refused
- 02Biometric modalities and accuracy
- 03Enrolment quality
- 04Matching thresholds and error trade offs
- 05Deduplication at scale
- 06Exclusion and alternative routes
- 07Privacy, consent and data protection
- 08System security, credentials and interoperability
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 to 23 October 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 18 to 20 November 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 9 to 11 December 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 16 to 18 December 2026 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 20 to 22 January 2027 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |