How big is the Global Identification Gap? : can we measure it? -- Identification as an enabler of sustainable development -- Identification systems : innovations in technology and ID provision -- Confronting the risks -- Frontier cases in digital identification -- Towards the future

Biometric technology has been afforded a central role in the security architecture that Western governments have forged since the events of 9/11 2001. With biometrics the body becomes the anchor of identification. In a security architecture centred on identification of persons of interest and...