Cook Islands digitises civil registration with open-source tech in world first
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- The Cook Islands has rolled out a digital system to record births, deaths, marriages and other life events, replacing paper-based processes with a world-first implementation of open-source civil registration software. Civil registration refers to the recording of life events such as births, adoptions, marriages, name changes and deaths, and their use in issuing identity documents and producing official statistics. While largely invisible day to day, these systems underpin access to services ...
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- 26/05/2026
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- Pacific Community
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