Kenya borrows digital lessons on smart IDs from Pakistan

Immigration Services PS Julius Bitok and the Pakistan Interior Secretary Syed Ali Murtaza in Islamabad. [Courtesy]

The government wants to borrow lessons from Pakistan's digital Identity Card in its bid to roll out the stalled project.

This is according to Immigration and Citizen Services Principal Secretary Prof Julius Bitok, who said the Asian country model of linking registration data to national security and social-economic planning offered useful lessons in the collection, storage, and use of records on birth and deaths among others.