Govtech

A health ID from birth, and every trade-off behind it

An experimental answer to a NITDA Builders Festival challenge: why a "health BVN" on its own would not work, why we built on the NIN instead of competing with it, why the ID is issued at birth or at the first vaccination, how bulk-issued IDs make offline registration possible, the portable summary that travels with the ID, how matching, consent and sync are designed, the bugs that taught us the most, and what is still not built.