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The South African smart identity card – known as a Smart ID Card – replaces the old green bar-coded identity book. [1] Both are identity documents that serve as proof of a person's identity. This proof includes a person's photograph, their full name, their date of birth, their place of birth, and their unique identity number.
South African identity card Explanation of identity number in a South African identity document during apartheid. In South Africa every citizen must apply for an Identity Card from the age of 16 years. The ID number is already allocated at the time the birth certificate is generated and required for child passport applications.
Smile Identity raises $7M to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa. YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria. More TechCrunch.
Honduras. Cédula de identidad (national identity card) The Honduran national identity card is an electronic ID card, compulsory for all Honduran nationals at the age of 18. [36] Hong Kong. Hong Kong Identity Card (HKID) Identity cards have been used since 1949, and been compulsory since 1980.
In 2019, Smile Identity secured a $4 million seed round. With this Series A, the company has raised a total of $11 million. Smile Identity plans to use the new investment to improve its services ...
The startup raised a $1.5 million round in 2020, bringing its total seed raise to $2.5 million. Africa-focused VCs Orange Ventures and LoftyInc Capital, the two investors who co-led its initial ...
The identity document is used to connect a person to information about the person, often in a database. The connection between the identity document and database is based on personal information present on the document, such as the bearer's full name, age, birth date, address, an identification number, card number, gender, citizenship and more.
Smile Identity, a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve, a Ghanaian developer of ...