Title: Ethiopian Digital Identification Proclamation No. 1284_2023
Scope of Application: National.
Type of law: Proclamation
Key words: Digital Identification; Minor Digital Identification; Biometric Data; Demographic Data; Personal Data; Sensitive Personal Data; Unique Number; Protection of Personal Data; Data fraud or Error.
Anticipated Benefits:
1). “Ensures the Resident’s right to be identified, enhances the ability to exercise other rights, improves trust between service providers and residents, creates a nationwide enabling environment to ensure transparency, accountability and efficiency”;
2). “Helps to plan national development effectively, create economic transformation, ensure good governance, reduce wastage of resources, eliminate redundancy and ensure inclusiveness when policies are designed and development plans are executed”;
3). “Important to institute a reliable, accessible and secured system, and to promote the country’s social, political and economic development and predictability, to ensure the overall peace and security of Residents and reinforcing the justice system”;
Some of Data to be collected:
First Name, Father Name, and Grand Father Name
Nationality
Date of Birth (Date, Month, and Year)
Gender
Domicile Address
Biometric;

Entry into Force: April 18, 2023
Repeals:

Amended by: —
Implemented by: —
Repealed? No
Language: Amharic and English