An Interview with Dr Joseph Atick, ID4Africa

Following the ID4Africa 2024 AGM in Cape Town, Nicola Sudan from Reconnaissance interviewed Dr Joseph Atick, co-founder and Executive Chair of ID4Africa. The interview, for ID & Secure Document News™, covered a range of topics, including Dr Atick’s pioneering work in biometrics, the origins and growth of ID4Africa, the challenges and progress of digital identity systems across Africa, and the need for depoliticising identity programmes (see IDN November 2024).

In the run-up to the next ID4Africa AGM in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (20-23 May)1, IDN sat down again with Dr Atick to pick up on the themes that Nicola had explored and find out what the 2025 AGM had in store.