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February 02, 2015
The UK House of Commons International Development Committee issued a report today, which concluded that foreign aid to poor countries is no longer a sufficient policy to address shared global challenges. The report says the focus should move away from aid and towards an approach that focus...
CGD in the News
April 21, 2014
Who has the right to collect your biodata? Who gets to access it? How can it be used? And what happens in case of security failures? After all, you can change your passwords after a Heartbleed bug, but you can't change your irises.
Even agnostics agree that laws haven't kept pace with the t...
CGD in the News
April 24, 2013
Following the Center for Global Development's Eighth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Technology to Leapfrog Development: The Aadhaar Experience, Senior Fellow Alan Gelb, Policy Analyst Julia Clark, and speaker Nandan Nilekani are featured in a Washington Post piece on Biometric IDs.
CGD in the News
April 24, 2013
Senior Fellow Alan Gelb and Policy Analyst Julia Clark are mentioned in a Bloomberg piece on their large volume of work surrounding Biometric IDs following the Center for Global Development's Eighth Annual Richard H. Sabot Lecture: Technology to Leapfrog Development: The Aadhaar Experience, feat...
January 28, 2013
Biometrics refers to identifying individuals based on distinguishing physical or behavioral characteristics. This includes fingerprints, irises, face and hand geometry, gait, voice, signatures, DNA, and other traits. Fingerprints (inked and now digital) have historically been the most commonly used,...