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Identity, civil registration & identification, elections, democracy. Papers:

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Does the world know its Gatesgate?

That DPI really is just API for folks who matter to Gates and his bottomline.

Cf. his fingers into contemporary development (= digitisation, isn't it?). F**k inclusion, the poor, the downtrodden.

Schwab's shows how atrocious his projects.

[Danny Miller @DanielMillerEsq]

I think there’s a sense the next 100 days could shut the door on Trump’s political future. That’s where some of this energy is coming from IMO.

We’ve worked & struggled for 8 yrs to protect America from him. And on the national level, the worst MAY be behind us if we win. 1/🧵

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Kenya's Kipande centennial was in 2019, or 2020

because the 1st World War intervened (cf. my https://t.co/sYCboMbSCE),

and wouldn't "discriminated against men" be more apt a phrase, upon reflection? Inhumane governmentality also has /'come home', to Britain, and all and sundry

[Jonathan Klaaren @JonathanKlaaren]

Interesting historical analysis here: The complex nature of this interplay can be traced to the 1915 Native Registration Ordinance that discriminated against the registration of women. Only African males aged 16 and above were registered and issued with an ID document

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Deze week staan politici die extreemrechtse complottheorieën verspreiden, de vrije pers ter discussie stellen en de islam willen verbannen naast de koning op het bordes. Wij zeggen: #NietMijnRegering Sluit je aan! https://t.co/BZLtImaHP1

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Kenya. Protests in many shapes and forms

The hubris of Ruto knows no bounds. I did predict Huduma Namba's quick demise

The Brits kept their kipande alive for longer, cf. also my (ranked in top 15% of 1.7 mln papers on SSRN):
https://t.co/sYCboMbkN6

[MyIDMyRight @myidmyright]

"When I applied for an ID, I was asked why I was named Njeri. Our chief said that I am a Somali; that I don't deserve to be called Njeri," Hawa Njeri.

Hawa Njeri lives in Nakuru. She began applying for an ID in 2002 & after several rounds of #IDVetting she is yet to get an ID.

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Elections in the UK, he would be great to keep the Transatlantic relationship alive,

with Trump.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Nigel Farage is in Blackpool today. And after a long night, so is this.

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

A lonely professorial voice from Israel

Who would have thought one of its leaders could and would cause such interminable havoc just to evade justice?

https://t.co/f3YjZ7GvCq

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

UNDP 50in5 Digital Public Infrastructure

Has the last sane person left UNDP??? Or does it stand for UN Digital Panopticons? I'm sure India's MOSIP is at the ready to help, Turing Institute, Gates Foundation

Has UNDP done anything useful at all over the past decades? Braindead?

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

If you were worried about @TelanganaCOPs collecting everyone's personal data who checks into a hotel. Nandu Nilekani has made a grand plan to collect your photos at airports, trains, hotels with a direct API line to the police. All Hail Digital India 🤡
https://t.co/1fspdVFWOw

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

One of many sickening 'products' of Modi governance

Cf. also Graham Greenleaf's evaluation: https://t.co/Y7nT2LiYQk

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

Two major constitutional judgements on fundamental right to privacy and Aadhaar by Supreme Court did not change a single line of source code of Aadhaar system, architecture, usage. What will a dummy data protection act do?

[Olivia Solon @oliviasolon]

NEW: Uganda’s biometric identity system is key for banking and voting, but it also sits at the heart of a sweeping surveillance apparatus that targets human rights activists, journalists and political opponents

https://t.co/InXtJTYDCX

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Kenya: A century of servitude thru ID, only now

it is just as bad, or worse.

Cf. also my:

https://t.co/sYCboMbSCE

[Bronwen Manby @BronwenManby]

Statement from @NubianRights @HakiCentre @NamatiKenya @Haki_na_Sheria @ParanetRight criticising new arrangements for Kenyan ID : govt "risks replicating the arbitrary and discretionary nature of vetting in the new registration guidelines" #legalidentity https://t.co/AMe1RIY654

[Bronwen Manby @BronwenManby]

Statement from @NubianRights @HakiCentre @NamatiKenya @Haki_na_Sheria @ParanetRight criticising new arrangements for Kenyan ID : govt "risks replicating the arbitrary and discretionary nature of vetting in the new registration guidelines" #legalidentity https://t.co/AMe1RIY654

[Bronwen Manby @BronwenManby]

Kenya: Gov't dissolves vetting committees (good news); Chiefs to be held accountable for ID issuance (not necessarily any better news...) What are due process protections?? #digitalID #legalidentity https://t.co/ee6QobU6jL

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

If only India had conducted the decadal census - but then who wanted the facts?

“All of India’s religious groups have grown substantially since the 1950s”

(The EAC-PM - same body whose chair had said it was time to junk the constitution on Aug 14, 2023, in @livemint )

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

@digitaldutta And what makes it even worse: the rest of the world buys into this lie as well. Manmohan Singh's answer to Mumbai was indeed much wiser than George Bush's, although the Patriot Act helps Aadhaar's worldwide pandemic spread.

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

@kofiemeritus @SemaforAfrica Would be helpful to give a URL of the source

[michelawrong @michelawrong]

Jesus wept. https://t.co/aowT1UBOLD

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

Yes, sure Steve. AI is the same data as the ones the Catholic church wrote down in big books, sent to Rome

Now the Vatican is probably selling them. Their books of old not so much

[Steve Wilson @Steve_Lockstep]

Is the Evolution of Credit Cards True Innovation or Simply Old Wine in a New Bottle? 💳

#MakingDataBetter #CreditCardEvolution #FoodForThought

[CRC4D Jaap van der Straaten https://mastodon.world @CRC4D]

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[Thomas Piketty @PikettyWIL]

Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time