Gates Foundation Doubles Down on Push For Digital ID and Payments in Nigeria

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, and various “enlisted” UN agencies (and the EU not far behind) all in one place – what could go right? This time, the “joint undertaking” is the promotion of digital public infrastructure (DPI). Save the UN, which is supposed to be “the world organization,” all these other actors blatantly represent rich elites; but a lot of their focus with the DPI push is now on underdeveloped or developing countries of “the third world.” Related: Digital ID, Bill Gates vaccine record, and payments system combo to be trialed in Africa There are two schools of thought about why this is so: that these entities and individuals are genuine, selfless benefactors who want to share their good fortune by, say, “making the world a better place”; or, that they purposefully target countries where legislation and regulation makes it easier to carry out many types of social, economic, etc. experiments than would be the case “at home.” That’s for observers to analyze, as DPI promoters emphatically claim only the best intentions. Like, for example, the Gates Foundation working to “expand Nigeria’s economic growth opportunities” via DPI. The ongoing experiment in this case is development and implementation of digital IDs and digital payments by the end of the decade, in as many places as possible, and that is the core intent behind the term “DPI,” which many see as simply a UN, EU,…Gates Foundation Doubles Down on Push For Digital ID and Payments in Nigeria