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Papua New Guinea has stood up a new digital ID, wallet and online government platform, and plans to pilot them with 10,000 users, starting in the next few weeks, according to an announcement on LinkedIn.

Pilots of the SevisPass digital ID, the SevisPortal and SevisWallet all launched this week, on a limited basis. The SevisPass is derived from the national ID program and existing physical IDs, and PNG residents can use it to access government services through the SevisPortal. The SevisWallet app stores the SevisPass.

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