Tag: government systems
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The Missing Identity in Jamaica’s Digital Economy
I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon the article, Corporate Digital IDs to Fight Business Fraud, but it was an insightful read. More importantly, it exposed a blind spot we may have as Jamaica pushes toward a digital economy. We spend a lot of time discussing digital payments, central bank digital currencies, national identification…
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Trust, Biometrics and the Future of Identity in Jamaica
In the previous article, One Person, Many Identities: Jamaica’s Fragmented Identity Problem, we discussed how Jamaica’s identity system is spread across several government agencies. Jamaica’s proposed National Identification System (NIDS) aims to address this by establishing a single root identity for each person. But an important question remains: how will identities actually be enrolled? Enrollment…
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One Person, Many Identities: Jamaica’s Fragmented Identity Problem
In the previous article, The Growing Threat of Identity Fraud in Jamaica, we examined how identity fraud can occur when individuals manipulate documents to impersonate others within financial systems. While such cases often appear to be isolated crimes, they point to a deeper structural issue: Jamaica’s identity ecosystem is fragmented. Today, identity information is managed…