{"id":1843,"date":"2020-01-16T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:46:56","slug":"podcast-series-digital-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/podcast-series-digital-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of digital identity in humanitarian contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The GSMA estimates that more than 80% of refugees worldwide reside in countries where proof of identity is required to register for a mobile SIM card or to open a Mobile Money Account.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having been forced to flee their homes, refugees often lack the necessary identification credentials (such as a passport or national identity card) to meet \u201cKnow Your Customer\/Customer Due Diligence\u201d requirements in their country of refuge. This can prevent access to key mobile services in their own name, restricting opportunities for digital and financial inclusion and placing barriers in the way of the efficient delivery of vital humanitarian assistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/innovation\/displaced-and-disconnected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research published by UNHCR in partnership with GSMA<\/a> in 2019 has highlighted these issues and identified possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to UNHCR\u2019s Senior Identity Management Officer, Nicholas Oakeshott, in conversation with the GSMA\u2019s Yiannis Theodorou (Senior Policy and Advocacy Director) discussing how a trusted digital identity for refugees can unlock access mobile and mobile money services in the GSMA\u2019s brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/mobilefordevelopment\/mobile-for-humanitarian-innovation\/mobile-for-humanitarian-innovation-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Podcast Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygEWmBskGXY\" width=\"741\" height=\"417\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to UNHCR\u2019s Nicholas Oakeshott, in conversation with the GSMA\u2019s Yiannis Theodorou on how digital identity for refugees can unlock opportunities and help to deliver vital humanitarian assistance.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}