Under the agreement, MasterCard will work with Cairo on a programme that links citizens’ national IDs to an existing national mobile money platform. The system will allow the government to issue digital ID cards which can be used to pay for a number of services including government fees, mobile bills, merchant purchases and domestic remittances.
The deal was signed by the government of Egypt, represented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and MasterCard.
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