Our live five for 2018

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Filed Under: Identity, Inclusion, Payments, Transit and Travel

Our live five for 2018

18th December 2017 by Dave Birch

It’s that time of year again. I’ve had a chat with my colleagues at Consult Hyperion, gone back over my notes from the year’s events, taken a look at our most interesting projects around the ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Identity, Inclusion, People, Privacy and security, Public Sector and NGO

Password security

18th October 2017 by Margaret Ford

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The publication by NIST of an updated version of its digital identity guidelines marks a significant change ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identity, Inclusion, Payments, Transit and Travel

Does it matter if people tap their phones or not?

24th April 2017 by Dave Birch

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How are mobile payments getting on in the UK? According to the most recent figures from Transport for London, mobile phones now account for about 8% of their contactless transactions, so ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Chyp events and notices, Inclusion, Mobile money, Payments

Post-Industrial Archeology

27th January 2017 by Dave Birch

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The BBC World Service has a podcast series called “50 things that made the modern economy” hosted by the economist ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identity, Inclusion, Payments, Transit and Travel

Our live five for 2017

19th December 2016 by Dave Birch

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It’s that time of year again. No matter how much I complain that silly lists of what will be big in the New Year are trivial and superficial and not really representative of a more detailed ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identity, Inclusion, Payments

The Tale of Money2020 Vegas, Part 2

3rd November 2016 by Dave Birch

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It’s Vegas, so time for a glass of champagne. Luckily, they had some in the green room for the W3C panel on “One-Click Buying: New W3C Standards for Web Payments” so I poured myself a large ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identity, Inclusion, Payments

The Tale of Money 2020 Vegas, Part 1

2nd November 2016 by Dave Birch

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Filed Under: Cash and cash replacement, Identity, Inclusion, Mobile money, Money, People

A way to embrace “over the counter” mobile money transactions

4th August 2016 by Paul Makin

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As one of the pioneers of mobile money (cutting my teeth on the initial service proposition and business model for M-PESA, way back in 2004, three years before commercial launch), I’m always ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Identification and Authentication, Inclusion

Inclusion, identity and privacy

14th July 2016 by Dave Birch

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Financial inclusion is necessarily built on a foundation of customer identity, but the rush to inclusion and the consequent focus on mass registration in many countries has placed at risk the ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inclusion, Mobile Payments, Payments, Public Sector and NGO, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Beacons in Transit

24th June 2016 by Dr John Elliott

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You've probable heard about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons being used to help the visually impared navigate on their own around public transport systems. This has been trialled in [Continue reading]

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