Thank you ever so much to the BBC for inviting us onto the programme Afrique Avenir today.
“Officially, they don’t exist. They are called “ghost children”. There are over 200 million in the world and 40 million in Central and West Africa.
Nevertheless, these children really do exist. Neither the administrations nor States officially recognize them…”
Read the entire article and listen to the podcast here (in French)
"We're talking about sovereign rights. The civil registration should only be run by sovereign states. We license our technology indefinitely so as to let the States manage and run the whole civil registration and national archive system. So the platform, including all the apps, belong to the states."
"The concept is to make the civil registration of births and other vital events automatic, so as to build an exhaustive and dynamic national registry"
"iCivil is an integrated platform, based on a mobile phone app that will consecutively enable the declaration, the registration and the delivery of birth certificates and other vital events. The system works with a Bubble Bracelet that enables the identification and the digital authentication of the newborns via encrypted SMS. Parents will no longer have to travel to the civil registration centers to do this."
"The application belongs to the state. The midwives or other selected state personnel are authorized to use the app. It could be, for instance, a village chief, or another authorized person, but they have to be specifically authorized by the civil administration"