Governments in African Countries are counting on a technology employed in India in the Aadhaar project to help them climb out of poverty. Aadhaar as everyone knows is the world's largest bio-metric enrollment and authentication system.
The key problem with all pervading illiteracy and corruption is that citizen registration systems fail. This causes undocumented people who do not have any way of proving who they are. Scantily educated people in poverty ridden countries cannot appreciate the importance of having bank accounts as a means of financial security. Finally whenever the governments try to provide relief to them either in terms of monetary benefits or in kind, they are cheated, due to lack of a verifiable identity.
