Trust Stamp in Digital ID Talks With Nigeria

- Trust Stamp's core technology creates an "Irreversibly Transformed Identity Token" (IT2) which allows for biometric verification without needing to store or share a user's sensitive, raw biometric data. - The discussions follow a visit by a Trust Stamp team to Nigeria in February 2026, arranged at the request of the Vice President's office to identify government operations where the company's technology could be implemented. - Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), established in 2001, is the country's primary IT policy implementer and regulator, with a mandate that includes developing, standardizing, and monitoring IT practices nationwide. - Nigeria already operates Africa's most extensive digital identity infrastructure, with 126.7 million people enrolled in the National Identity Management System as of January 2026, processing 1.3 million daily verification requests. - The country's digital identity landscape is fragmented, with at least 13 federal agencies collecting biometric data, which has raised data privacy and security concerns among the public and civil society organizations. - The next phase of the potential partnership involves a series of technical workshops to create a detailed roadmap for deploying identity solutions across various government services and the private sector. - This initiative aligns with Trust Stamp's broader strategy of engaging government clients; the company has a teaming agreement with ManTech to integrate its privacy-focused AI technology into government security frameworks like Zero Trust. - Nigeria’s Data Protection Act (NDPA) of 2023 classifies biometric data as sensitive, requiring strict conditions for its processing and raising the legal stakes for any new digital identity initiatives.