Every person counts

The world’s first open-source biometric ID with privacy at its core

Empowering teams to verify, monitor, and optimise the delivery of essential services

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2,868,451

People enrolled

17

Countries reached

4,751

Active users

Our mission

Simprints’ mission is to transform the way the world fights poverty and disease.

We build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every public good reaches the people who need them most.

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What makes Simprints technology unique?

Safe

We have advanced security protocols

Ethical

We put our beneficiaries first

Privacy First

Privacy is baked into our technology

Inclusive

We design with communities in mind

Not for Profit

We’re harnessing the power of tech for good

We're a trusted partner

“We cannot vaccinate the children who we do not know exist. We need affordable, secure digital identification systems, like Simprints, that can store a child’s medical history, and that can be accessed even in places without reliable electricity.”

Seth Berkley Former CEO of Gavi

“Simprints could become the first source of providing identity to hundreds of millions of children without identity now. It can allow these children access to services and protection from harm — something that they do not have today.”

Dr. Sharad Sapra Former Director of the UNICEF Global Innovation Centre

“The Simprints project has been one of our strongest and most successful ones. It’s helped address previous uncertainties around vaccination follow-up and identification. By combining digital tools for enrolment and biometrics for reliable identification, we supported stronger vaccination tracking and care. The impact created has been highly beneficial.”

Andrew Ddembe CEO, Mobiklinic

“The beauty of the biometric component is that it makes it easy for patient identification and follow-up.”

Dr. John Ekow Otoo Deputy Director Eastern Region, GHS

“Simprints solves a major challenge in our efforts to reach the poorest mothers and children. We have worked closely with their team for years since research and development began in 2014, and we believe this solution has been designed from the ground up to be context appropriate, cost-effective, and scalable.”

Dr. Kaosar Afsana Former Director of Health at BRAC

“The Simprints team were incredibly collaborative and really worked with us as a partner. They worked to understand the design and supported us to deliver on the goals of the project. I found that valuable as a partner in the project and not just as a tech vendor.”

Rebecca Litner Technical Advisor, D-Tree

Open-source biometric ID platform

SimprintsID is the world’s first open-source biometric ID platform with privacy at its core.

Easily deploy off-the-shelf algorithms into your mobile application to solve identification challenges and amplify your impact.

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Our services

Biometric ID integrations

Our cutting-edge biometric ID tools integrate seamlessly into your existing platforms, with bespoke configuration, a choice of modality, full training and ongoing support to ensure we build a foundation for sustainable success. We will work with you to understand your operational and data needs and help lead every aspect of your workflow digitisation journey.

Real-time M&E

Bespoke dashboards can be added to your projects so that you have quick access to the data that is most important to you. With access to real-time data, you can accurately measure programme reach, share and report impact statistics with relevant stakeholders, and make data-driven decisions to improve programme performance.

Verified delivery

Our solution gives organisations a ‘single source of truth’ to accurately determine the number of services delivered, unique individuals reached and robustly verified through our biometric identification verification technology and triangulated with other data sources. Biographic, GPS and time-stamp data gives you absolute confidence in your numbers.

Our work

Biometric tools

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Project services

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International projects

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Partners

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Learn more about Simprints by browsing these FAQs

Simprints is a non-profit technology company born out of the University of Cambridge in the UK. Passionate, dedicated, and creative, our team members are located across 15 different countries. We come together to build and deploy technology for good.

 

Our mission is to transform the way the world fights poverty and disease. We build technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every public good reaches the people who need them most.

Biometrics are unique physical or behavioural characteristics used to identify individuals, such as fingerprints, facial features, or iris patterns. Digital biometrics are based on the same technology that you unlock your smartphone with.

Communities worldwide are missing out on continuity of healthcare and life-saving services that are meant for them. That’s why Simprints developed a new kind of tech for good: biometric ID with privacy at its core.

This gives people a safe digital identity and ensures that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches those who need them most.

Simprints focuses on providing affordable, accurate, and scalable biometric solutions for social impact, particularly in healthcare and humanitarian settings. This technology is made for offline, rugged, remote environments and built for the rural African and Asian contexts. Biometric vendors found in airports or hospitals in urban cities are not built for darker skin tones or worn or burnt fingerprints; Simprints is.