Entangled temporalities: Ghana's national biometric identity registration project
Entangled temporalities: Ghana's national biometric identity registration project
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纠缠的时间性:加纳的国家生物识别身份登记项目
DOI:
10.1111/1467-8322.12321
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
1.3
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Biometric identity registration technologies are spreading throughout the world. Developing countries in particular, have recently been seen to construct biometric population registers in partnership with international donor organizations. This article traces the temporal entanglements produced by transnational policy mobilities in the inception and implementation of Ghana's national biometric identity registration project. In 2008, Ghana famously introduced the first biometric banking system in Africa. Yet, the e‐zwich payment system marked only the first step towards the current ‘craze’ for biometric identity registration in the West African country. Among the numerous biometric identity documents circulating in Ghana's national and subnational institutions, the national Ghanacard is the most interesting identity registration project in the country, both in terms of its population‐wide reach and the complex constellation of institutions, actors and ideas competing within the project. With a focus on the temporalities of policymaking, the article examines the project's fundamental future orientation, the temporal context of its production with its specific possibilities of imagining and acting upon certain matters, and the rhythms and schedules of project implementation. By doing so, it draws attention to some of the ways in which competing sets of ideas shape large‐scale investments in technology and infrastructure in Africa.
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影响因子:
1.2
作者:
K. Breckenridge
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K. Breckenridge
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-7522-0
发表时间:
2013
期刊:
Health Economics eJournal
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作者:
E. Kindt
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E. Kindt
DOI:
10.1057/9781137290755
发表时间:
2013
期刊:
Health Economics eJournal
影响因子:
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作者:
Btihaj Ajana
通讯作者:
Btihaj Ajana
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
Davina Bhandar
通讯作者:
Davina Bhandar
影响因子:
1.3
作者:
M. Koster
通讯作者:
M. Koster