Ghana news Margins delivers first ID system for Gambia - President Barrow is inaugural recipient

The landmark initiative establishes, for the first time in Gambia’s history, a single trusted digital identity platform that will underpin governance, national security, financial inclusion, digital public services and long-term economic development just as the Ghana Card envisages in its legal framework.

They began with the inauguration of the National Identity Management System Data Centre at Abuko, a town five miles southwest of the capital, Banjul, before proceeding to the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre, where President Barrow became the first Gambian to receive the new GAM ID card after undergoing live biometric enrolment and authentication.

Gambia’s first-ever unified digital identity (ID) system, known as the National Identity Management System (GAM ID), represents a new chapter in Africa's digital transformation story, marking a powerful demonstration of Africans building solutions for Africa.