In partnership with
Government of Rwanda
WHY
To become Africa's platform for digital identity.
Digital identity is an essential tool in a progressively digital world.
Without a digital identity, consumers struggle to access essential digital services.
Without a digital identity, businesses struggle to trust and qualify customers.
WHAT
ZAKA creates digital identities for people.
In doing so, we help companies remotely
verify and on-board new, trusted and qualified customers.
HOW
Access
In collaboration with our partners, we will create a digital ID for users at the point of service. This digital ID is user-held and private-by-design.
Connect
With their digital ID, consumers can connect directly to services that are relevant to them in the ZAKA Marketplace.
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Enrich
We will enrich the ZAKA Marketplace with partners offering essential digital services such as insurance, lending and healthcare.
Scale
We will replicate ZAKA in other African countries, eventually becoming the continent’s leading platform for digital identity and service aggregation.
Use Case
A Rwandan mother of three creates a ZAKA profile for herself and her children. She registers a biometric against her
account and generates a high-assurance
digital ID credential tied to that biometric.
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The next time she needs a loan, she can use her biometric to share her ZAKA profile
with the micro-lender, speed up her
approval and get the loan faster.
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Similarly, if she wanted to use a mobile
health service she can connect quickly and easily to the health provider via her ZAKA profile.
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She retains control of her data through
ZAKA's consent features and can be the guardian of her children's digital IDs until
they become adults.
Developer talent and R&D
Government of Rwanda
Research, development and implementation
Commercial partner and strategic advisor
Incubating ZAKA with engineering, Azure credits and marketing support
“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
Peter Thiel, Co-founder of PayPal
CAREERS
We will be hiring again soon.​
Think you know someone who'd be a great fit for the ZAKA team?
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Let us know who, even if it's you.
We're always open to a conversation.
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