Globally, 1.7 billion adults are unbanked today — they do not have an account at a financial institution or via mobile money. This represents 31% of all adults globally. Being invisible to formal financial services,...

Nationwide digital identification system is designed to provide citizens with formal identity and control over their own credit information and could be a promising new model for global financial inclusion. ...

The project the government is calling “Africa’s first blockchain and decentralized digital identity implementation,” is designed to provide its citizens with formal identity, control over their credit information, and access to digital financial services. ...

Globally, over 1.7 billion adults, which is 31% of the world’s adult population, do not have access to the formal financial sector. Kiva has operated for the past 13 years in this world, facilitating over...

An exciting new partnership between Kiva, Sierra Leone and U.N. agencies is set to bring a nationwide digital identification system to the people of Sierra Leone that is designed to provide citizens with formal identity...

In a partnership with the government of Sierra Leone, Kiva is on the ground building the country's first blockchain-based national identity and credit system. ...

The new Kiva Protocol is designed to address financial barriers by using distributed ledger technology to issue digital identification to all citizens. Through the Kiva Protocol, both formal and informal financial institutions (from banks to...

Kiva, a San Francisco-based tech nonprofit organization, is using blockchain to create an online ID database in Sierra Leone allowing people who struggle to get loans to prove their credit history. ...