Solutions · NGOs and aid programs
Iris registration and de-duplication for cash, food and health programs. It works with or without documents, offline in the field, and keeps the data under your control.
On a distribution day your team checks names on a list and cards in people's hands. A card can pass to a neighbour. The same person can end up on the list twice, registered at two sites by two different teams, and nobody notices until the totals stop adding up.
Suppose you transfer $40 a month to 5,000 households, and 1 registration in 100 is a duplicate. That is 50 extra transfers: $2,000 a month, or $24,000 a year. The first year of checks costs $1,881 without VAT: the $990 starter kit with the first three months, then $99 a month, and registered non-profits pay 40% less for the cloud. These figures are only an illustration; use your own caseload and transfer value.
Two USB scanners on the laptops or Android tablets your team already carries, the cloud, and a short written policy on what you collect and when you delete it. Registration keeps working offline and synchronizes when a connection is back. Larger programs start with a six-month pilot.
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Most duplicates are not fraud. A family registers at two sites after moving, a name is spelled differently by two teams, a lost card is replaced by a new registration. Some are deliberate. All of them take assistance away from someone else, and a name list cannot tell them apart.
Every new registration is searched against everyone already in the program, across sites and teams. A possible duplicate goes to a person for review instead of being refused automatically.
A short scan at the distribution point confirms the person on the list. Cards and documents become optional.
USB scanners on the laptops and tablets teams already use. Registration and checks keep working without a connection and synchronize later.
Our cloud, your own servers or a partner's data center. Images in ISO formats, deletion on request and an exit at any time, so the register stays yours.
Biometric data of people who depend on assistance needs more care than any other. We help you write down what is collected and why, how long it is kept, who can see it and how it is deleted, and we keep the system to that: no sharing with third parties, templates instead of images where the program allows it, and the option to run everything inside your own infrastructure. The principle of "do no digital harm" applies to the technology as much as to the program.
A pilot in one area: six months, up to 50,000 people, four scanners and training for your team, with success criteria agreed in advance. It costs $2,500, and registered non-profits and UN agencies get 40% off the cloud afterwards. Read the guide to beneficiary de-duplication, and for the wider picture of biometrics in aid work, Biometrics in the humanitarian sector.