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Between 2010 and 2018, the number of internet users in Africa tripled and more Africans have a cell phone than access to clean water. Memisa staff member Annelies Van Erp looks at the potential of  digitization for development cooperation, and how the sector should deal with it, based on...
Facial recognition becomes an ever-larger part of the biometrics market and digital transformation efforts across the globe. Various segments of the – quite diverse – facial recognition market are poised to grow faster than previously expected. 3D facial recognition software overcomes the drawbacks of 2D facial recognition and can work...
The biometrics market will be significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While contact-only biometrics companies will suffer most, others have adapted with, for instance, contact-less fingerprint sensing solutions. Yet, the main 'gains' for the biometrics market in 2020 are for artificial intelligence biometric firms and AI facial recognition investments....