17-year-old Illinois inventor helping solve global identification crisis

More than a billion people, many of them women in lower-income countries do not have any form of identification. In fact, many people are born without birth certificates, leading to a lifelong problem of opening a bank account, applying for loans to start a business, or even voting.  Some call this the global identification crisis and it caught the attention of a 17-year-old from Bryon, Illinois who created a device meant to solve this program.

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Elizabeth Nyamwange
Inventor & Lead Programmer of Etana - freshman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill