Digital identity use case for pensioners: Africa has the largest number of people living without any form of identity document, numbering 470 million in total. These people lack access to vital services, including health care, social protection, education and finance. Closing the global identity gap requires a coordinated effort and tried and tested interventions aimed at accelerating progress towards target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration”, and in line with indicator 17.19.2, which gives increased impetus for improving civil registration and vital statistics systems. Cognideck delivered an end-to-end identity verification system that used biometric images captured from pensioner mobile devices to perform the needed user verification.