ADDIS ABABA – The Ministry of education (MoE) and the National ID Program jointly introduced a Digital ID system as the official student identification across all educational institutions in Ethiopia. Per the two institutions, one of the most prominent benefits of using the Student Digital ID in the educational domain is the establishment of a unified identity. Accordingly, over 640,000 student’s biometric data was migrated into the National ID Program’s system for Fayda ID generation. The integration offers significant operational efficiency of Educational institutions, ranging from grade schools to universities. The NID is implementing a nation-wide biometric digital ID system called Fayda, aiming to register all eligible Ethiopians by the end of 2025.

Source: Ethiopian News September 13, 2023 14:56 UTC