Pakistan ID boss to head UNDP digital transformation committee as World Bank mulls funding

Muhammad Tariq Malik, chairman of Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority ( NADRA ), has been appointed the chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Human Development Report 2023, this time on Digital Transformation in Pakistan. #UNDPinPakistan is pleased to announce the honourable members of the #NHDR2023 #DigitalTransformation Technical Advisory Committee. TAC will provide technical guidance & expertise for the report’s formulation. pic.twitter.com/u7NJ3wDIPk The head of Pakistan’s biometric national ID system will be joined by fellow co-chair of the committee, Knut Otsby, the UNDP Representative in Pakistan. The committee is led by an advisory council of 27 experts from a broad range of fields including technology. The NHDR gathers data , research and policy recommendations and succeeded in the goal of shaping policy decisions in areas such as inequality . Malik has introduced a great deal of technical innovation in his role at NADRA. Beyond rolling out the biometric ID system, NADRA has recently established patient ID verification for organ transfers , increased biometric data security , unveiled a high-tech central control room to monitor its entire network and is preparing a digital census . The country’s Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) has become an increasingly vital […]

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