Kenya’s Huduma: Data commodification and government tyranny

Kenyans are being forced to make a choice between legal erasure and being commodified as data by their own government.Pic: Photo Courtesy

Kenya’s Huduma: Data commodification and government tyranny

Early this year, the Kenyan government began to roll out a mass registration exercise that would see the issuance of new digital identity cards for all Kenyan residents – citizens and foreigners alike.

Kenyans were told that this National Integrated Identity Management System would collate and combine all the various identity documents that Kenyans are issued and that they have to carry around with them, including the national ID, passport, drivers licence, National Social Security card, National Hospital Insurance card, Kenya Revenue Authority Tax PIN, etc.READ MORE