After a pivotal year at MOSIP, the pinnacle was a visit by Bill Gates, Microsoft creator and founder of his namesake non-profit, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The walkaround helped promote MOSIP’s impressive achievements and strategic collaborations with countries looking to advance their economic development and pace of digitalisation.
MOSIP’s community work – lending resources, infrastructure and injecting investment into developing national ID programmes – saw them at the “helm of various events”, according to their website, including attending events like Open Source Day, Country Conversations in Bangalore, India, Partner Conversations and ID4Africa.
The past year reconfigured the poll race between countries developing their own sell-sufficient ID ecosystems, entering MoU agreements with MOSIP to leverage its Modular Open-Source Identity Platform.
MOSIP enrolled two new countries to its global programme in 2023, undertaking integrations of its foundational ID infrastructure across 6 countries – including Morocco, Philippines, Ethiopia, Togo, Uganda, and Sri Lanka.
It also collaborated with well-known universities, technology partners and entering a strategic partnership with CLARCIEV (Latin American Council Of Civil Registration, Identity And Vital Statistics) helped to develop and support digital ID infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The modular platform has also progressed numerous pilots, reaching a global milestone for digital transformation, with 100 million citizens registered with a form of legal identification.
MOSIP’s partner ecosystem grew to 90+ partners, engaging governments to fulfil their commitments for citizens.
Noting additional achievements of the project, MOSIP said: “With an updated Partner Programme, MOSIP Marketplace, and a dedicated partner integration environment, MOSIP also welcomed 17 major SI partners, plus 20 more in the pipeline”.
MOSIP builds the foundational blocks of national ID systems from scratch to offer countries that lack the resources and investment to advance their in-house public digital infrastructure.
