Monday, July 14 / 15:30 - 17:00 • Plaza Ballroom - Merivale Side

Session 43
Research Leader Session on the Future of Population Registers Systems

Population data systems, particularly legal identity systems and population register-based systems, are core components of digital public infrastructure and yet many ethical and human rights questions remain. These questions are increasingly a central component of digital public infrastructure as they mediate access to societal inclusion, public services and private sector opportunities. Drawing on perspectives from law, public policy, demography, and public health, this research leader session will (i) review how demographers, population scientists and others have been assessing the coverage, quality and inclusiveness of such population register-based systems, (ii) using South Africa and Indonesia as case studies consider strategic and technical questions that are emerging in in the modernization of population register systems and (iii) the broader implications for who is counted and who is not, trust in population data systems and questions of access, equity and inclusion in health systems, public benefit systems and banking/finance systems in a world of increasing demographic diversity and fast changing population dynamics. This session will explore the challenges and opportunities in developing replicable models as well as international standards on the inclusiveness and quality of population registers systems. This is of particular importance in the current moment given shrinking resources for data systems (especially household surveys) and decreasing attention to rights issues.

Chair: Laura Ferguson, Institute on Inequalities on Global Health, University of Southern California
Discussant: Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand
Discussant: Sofia Gruskin, Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California

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