Legal Identity is a Human Right
India: Exclusion by design (ep. 5)
India’s ID system Aadhaar made huge progress by enrolling more than a billion people in just a few years. But at wh...
The private sector wants a stake in legal ID (ep. 4)
The private sector is part of legal ID. But is it trying to set an agenda beyond legal ID? What mechanisms do governm...
Discussing the OpenCRVS open-source civil registration system (ep. 3)
We’re going in big with our first look at technology, an entire digital civil registration and vital statistics...
SDG 16.9 – A life and death situation (ep. 2)
“Dead people can cause a lot of trouble. Dead people can access pensions, dead people can inherit things,” says N...
Setting the case for a legal identity for all (ep. 1)
More than a billion people in the world have no legal identity – no way to prove who they are. The United Nations h...
Introducing ID16.9 – the quest for everyone to have a legal identity (trailer)
One in eight people have no formal identity, no way to prove who they are. Find out the devasting impact this can hav...
What is the ID16.9 podcast about?
Biometric Update has launched the ID16.9 podcast to examine progress towards the realization of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 of providing legal identity for all people, including birth registration, by 2030. Hosted by Frank Hersey, guests range from high-profile UN officials to representatives of the invisible billion.