{"id":921834,"date":"2025-04-14T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921834"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:11:00","slug":"uganda-gears-up-to-roll-out-of-aadhaar-like-id-system-eyes-upi-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/14\/uganda-gears-up-to-roll-out-of-aadhaar-like-id-system-eyes-upi-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda gears up to roll out of Aadhaar-like ID system, eyes UPI adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major push to digitize citizen services, Uganda is set to roll out an Aadhaar-like digital identification system based on India-developed open-source technology and is exploring the adoption of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to cut down transaction costs across the economy. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ANI, Rosemary Kisembo, CEO of Uganda&#8217;s National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), confirmed that Uganda has fully customized the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) to align with its domestic laws and will launch five modules&#8211;new registration, renewal, correction of errors, replacement of lost ID, and first-time ID issuance&#8211;in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major push to digitize citizen services, Uganda is set to roll out an Aadhaar-like digital identification system based on India-developed open-source technology and is exploring the adoption of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to cut down transaction costs across the economy. In an interview with ANI, Rosemary Kisembo, CEO of Uganda&#8217;s National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), confirmed that Uganda has fully customized the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) to align with its domestic laws and will launch five modules&#8211;new registration, renewal, correction of errors, replacement of lost ID, and first-time ID issuance&#8211;in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}