[WATCH] Kenya’s Huduma Identification Number System is Implemented on the Blockchain, Confirms Kenya’s ICT Minister

Kenya’s expertise minister, Joe Mucheru, has revealed that the nation’s new controversial Huduma Quantity Identification System is constructed on the blockchain.

Huduma Quantity, which interprets to Service Quantity, is the Kenyan Authorities’s concept to introduce a single identification quantity and card system that may assist to enhance service entry and supply to residents.

Registrations that will likely be harmonized into ONE Huduma Quantity embrace:

√ Registration and substitute of ID Card
√ Utility and renewal of Driving License
√ Registration for Passport and Alien Card
√ Registration for NHIF and NSSF playing cards
√ Registration for Start and Dying Certificates

Among the info captured by the cardboard embrace biometric info fingerprints, and naturally, private particulars.

Talking at a Kenyan radio present, the Cupboard Minister reiterated that an individual’s particulars can’t be modified as soon as entered for the reason that blockchain is immutable.

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The Minister added {that a} full historical past of an individual’s exercise is accessible on the blockchain which is critical for accountability and auditing. Kenya is infamous for corrupt wealth acquisition and in line with the Minister, the blockchain could be used to test a path of how residents acquired their wealth.

The implementation of the Huduma Quantity system nonetheless has been stopped by the courtroom system in Kenya, citing poor information safety of person information within the nation. Nonetheless hundreds of thousands of Kenyans have had their playing cards made and their information is held on a blockchain.

Its not clear how open the blockhain could be to scrutiny however it may be seen from the cardboard that it’s supported by MasterCard, probably appearing as a debit card. Whereas the Kenyan authorities has been accused of violating the nation’s Information Safety Act, the United Nations has urged international locations to undertake digital identification.

This initiative is a part of the a lot wider Built-in Administration Data System (IMIS) which can see all authorities companies built-in for simpler administration.

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