Tag Archives: eGovernment

Biometrics takes advantage of the unique biological characteristics of people to identify and authenticate individuals in a reliable and fast way. Here are 7 typical use cases for biometric technologies …

Biometric identification has finally advanced to the point where it is starting to radically change the way we interact with the world, making life more convenient for users and helping …

Government is the main initiator of Big Data activities in Uzbekistan. Here are the main ones this year.   The first BI analysts school in UZ The first school of …

Despite the advances brought by digitalization and the wide availability of public services in electronic formats, Russians are still forced to make in-person visits and deal with physical documents stored …

Russia’s Central Bank and Rostelecom plan on using biometric data collected by financial institutions to fill out the Unified Biometric System (EBS). EBS, designed to facilitate the delivery of banking …

Kyrgyzstan has begun the process of opening their data, with the State Communications Committee working to create a portal that will give citizens access to up-to-date information from government agencies, …

The government of Kazakhstan is planning to create the Personal Data Agency under the Security Committee of the Ministry of Digital Development. This new agency will be responsible for coordinating …

Ben Ferguson travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel has become one of the world’s premier cyber superpowers. Bison Trails Report Highlights Global Move Toward CBDCs Customer-driven card-control …

Biometric data is being harnessed the world over as a way of identifying us and protecting us from the fraudulent use of our personal information. And governments around the globe …

Russia’s Federal Security Service has created the National Computer Incident Coordination Center to combat cyber threats against the country, especially its “critical infrastructure”. The Center will charge with: detecting, preventing and …

The Immigration Service of Finland has begun providing refugees with prepaid Mastercards rather than cash, allowing refugees to enter the blockchain-based system of unique digital identification information. This serves to …

The Russian economy is moving into a new period of low interest rates, with mortgage rates dropping below 10% and expected to reach below 8% by 2024. Such low interest …

Denmark is planning to use a cryptocurrency to provide humanitarian assistance, the first such instance of a donor state using blockchain technology for humanitarian efforts. To this end, a report …

Following a presidential decree on introducing a special management system for the city of Tashkent, residents of Tashkent will have the opportunity to decide how to spend city funds by …

Following a presidential decree regarding measures to innovate the development of culture and art in Uzbekistan, blockchain technology will be introduced into the system of ticket sales for cultural and …

Ariadne, a London-based regulatory technology (regtech) designer, is hoping to test an innovative regulatory and compliance platform in the Armenian financial sector. Regtech has been growing fast in recent years; …

As blockchain technologies being to enter Kazakhstan in the financial sector, so do ideas for how to implement these tools in other spheres. In the future, it is likely that …

Kazakhstan may become the first of all Common Economic Space countries to introduce its own cryptocurrency, which will likely become a digital analogue of the Kazakhstani tenge (KZT). It is …

The Ministry of Transport, Communication and High Technologies of Azerbaijan is negotiating the mutual recognition of signatures with Iran, Qatar, Turkey and Ukraine. Azerbaijan has also signed an agreement with …

The government of Azerbaijan has completed the integration of an e-mortgage system, the Azerbaijani Mortgage Fund (AMF), into its e-government portal. This means that, as of August 1, 2017, it …