Kisan ID (Farmer’s Digital Identification Platform)
Nepal
Developed by Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) of Nepal in collaboration with the European Union (EU), the Kisan ID (Farmer’s Digital Identification) is a web and mobile app based digital platform for collecting digitial ID's by respective municipalities of Nepal. It helps in subsidy tracking, enable digital financial services, integrate to other governments digital systems and many other targeted supports to the farmer. The EU has provided technical assistance to MoALD in the design of system requirements that include the digital data collection tools for registration, verification, and authentication services, as well as key details around data backup, contingency planning, and data security/protection.
Lead (category)
Government agency
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) in collaboration with the European Union (EU)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Finance
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Being implemented in Nepal by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) in collaboration with the European Union (EU).
DI ICT-deliverables format
Mobile applications
Web-based platform
Interactive data exchanges
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Government
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Currently, 1.5 million farmers have been digitized and registered in the system which is around 35% of total farmer population. Source: Developer website
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Nepal
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution