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In thirty years, the technology has changed completely. The reasons programmes fail have not changed at all.
The first electronic identity card our founding partner helped deliver used a chip that held 32 kilobytes of data. Today’s secure documents carry biometric templates, digital signatures, and cryptographic keys that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. The technology has transformed beyond recognition: In thirty years, the technology has changed completely. The reasons programmes fail have not changed at all.
Jun 42 min read
Your competitor just lost a CHF 50M tender. Not because their product was worse. Because their bid didn’t speak the language of the specification.
In the secure document and identity technology market, the distance between winning and losing a sovereign tender is rarely about product superiority. It is about specification alignment, context, understanding the pain points and addressing the various stakeholders: Does your bid team read the standards — or just reference them?
Jun 22 min read
Publishing guidance is not capacity building. If it were, every country with internet access would have a secure identity system.
ICAO’s Traveller Identification Programme — TRIP — represents one of the most ambitious capacity building efforts in the identity and border management space. Its objective: to help 193 member states implement the standards, systems, and institutional capabilities required for secure and efficient traveller identification.
The challenge is not ambition. It is delivery. Publishing guidance is not capacity building. Information is not capability.
May 192 min read
Nine thousand professionals. One conversation. No sales pitches.
LinkedIn group “ICAO ePassports and eID Cards”: Nine thousand professionals. One conversation. No sales pitches.
May 142 min read
Ask anyone in your passport authority to draw the system architecture on a whiteboard. Time how long it takes before they reach for a laptop.
Ask anyone in your passport authority to draw the system architecture on a whiteboard. Time how long it takes before they reach for a laptop: A system that only its builders understand is a system its operators cannot sustain.
May 72 min read
Your product roadmap has a three-year horizon. The standard it depends on has a seven-year development cycle. Do the maths.
Your product roadmap has a three-year horizon. The standard it depends on has a seven-year development cycle. Do the maths: Standards aren’t just rules. They are market intelligence.
May 52 min read
The identity modernisation market is booming. The question is who’s buying — and whether they know what they’re getting.
Automation without institutional readiness is not modernisation. It is automation of an existing vulnerability
Apr 232 min read
“ICAO compliant” is the most overused — and least understood — claim in the secure document industry.
“ICAO compliant” may be the most overused — and least understood — claim in the industry.
Apr 162 min read
Borders must be both secure and humane. The document framework for achieving both is under review.
The answer is not to choose between security and humanity. It is to build systems that serve both.
Apr 142 min read
The most expensive line in a national ID tender isn’t a price. It’s an ambiguous requirement.
Who wrote your last national ID specification — and whose interests did it protect?
Apr 22 min read
Nobody reads your 500-page system documentation. That’s not a filing problem. It’s a project risk.
If your system documentation can't be read in an afternoon, it won't be read at all.
Mar 192 min read
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