Sri Lanka Advances Digital ID Plans with UNDP, Development Partners

Sri Lankan officials met with UNDP's Assistant Secretary-General and international donor agencies in Colombo to advance the country's digital public infrastructure agenda, reviewing progress on OneRegistry, a national civil registration project digitizing paper records into an interoperable identity foundation, and discussing financing for the planned Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity system. UNDP framed this infrastructure as essential to efficient public services, illustrating how UN-backed development programs are steadily embedding biometric-linked national identity systems as a prerequisite for government services in developing nations worldwide.