Technology firm with a focus on identity management, UrbanID, has expressed readiness to offer technology solutions that will assist Nigeria and other countries in establishing robust digital identity ecosystems.
   
UrbandID noted that a robust identity ecosystem has been recognised as a key backbone upon which a country springs to socio-economic development, saying the United Nations describes legal identity as the basic characteristics of an individual’s identity such as name, sex, place and date of birth conferred through registration and the issuance of a certificate by an authorised civil registration authority following the occurrence of birth.
      
As such, the brain behind UrbanID, Olatunji Durodola, noted that in a world where identity theft and protection of data are subjects of immense and intense debates and concern to nations, institutions, security agencies, the financial industry and corporations globally, UrbanID has set for itself the onerous task to ensure that its clients adopt digitalisation as a process, which eliminates the social barriers that prevent complete individual growth and equal participation of all citizens in a country’s political, economic and social structures.
    
He said the firm came with state-of-the-art digital identity solutions and products for the developing world, with specific emphasis on Africa and South-East Asia, focusing on their unique identity management challenges. 
    
“We are building the technology infrastructure of a robust and disruptive digital identity ecosystem for the world across borders with mutual recognition while offering solutions that are crafted in strict compliance with our mission to empower individuals, strengthen communities, and foster inclusive citizenship services through a secure and innovative digital identity ecosystem,” he stated.
     
With its footprints established both directly and through a couple of subsidiaries in countries like the UAE, the UK, Nigeria, Estonia, and Rwanda, Durodola said UrbanID prides itself as an IT company with a difference, which offers a wide range of exceptional services that cut across various sectors thereby enabling the global economy.
  
According to him, UrbanID has solutions for UrbanID, identity management, identity tokenization, public key infrastructure, and user consent management among others.
 
“UrbanID’s global presence is a testament to the versatility and robustness of its technology solutions. Founded nearly three decades ago, and operating out of the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, UrbanID has proven time and again with proof of concept that the identity of individuals can be managed in a secure, safe and yet easily accessible environment by governments or other stakeholders when necessary, he stated.