Monthly Archives: January 2020
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Sanjay Dharwadker
Over one billion people on the planet have no ID. The problem starts at birth, by missing out on birth registration.
The United Nations...
South Africa ready to roll out e-visa for Indians
South Africa's Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane visited New Delhi to facilitate an e-visa facility for Indian tourists that will be rolled on a...
Ukiyo-e art on new Japanese passport
Japan will start issuing passports with art from Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai for people who sign up in February.
NHK reports that the passport will...
Bangladesh releases e-passport next week
Bangladesh’s government will officially launch its new e-passport next week.
The country’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, is expected to unveil the e-passport at the Bangabandhu...
Software components of the biometric passport
There is a new application of biometric technology which is starting to emerge. This is known as the e-passport, or also called the biometric...
New visa categories for Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz government agreed on a new version of instruction on the series of steps for acquiring visas for entry into the country.
Dispatch News...
Armenia and China get rid of visas
As of 19 January, Armenia and China do away with visas after the Armenian President Armen Sarkissian approved the visa waiver agreement with China...
Estonia’s Digital Nomad Visa
The Estonian government approved a bill of amendments to the Aliens Act, which includes the plan to set up a digital nomadic visa.
The Baltic...
Angola eases tourist visa to boost business
Angola is relaxing tourist visas for certain countries, in order to boost business and investments, and encouraging availability of foreign currency within its borders.
Visitors...
Romania’s new electronic ID cards in 2021
Romania will start to roll out new electronic ID cards in 2021.
These new eID cards will meet the standards set by the European Union.
The...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...