Singapore, April 18 -- Nagasaki University and NEC Corporation have established a program on global health & biometric authentication with Nagasaki University's Graduate School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Studies.

The aim of this course is to research and develop human resources related to the utilization of ICT, including biometrics, to solve health problems in developing countries. The program's first initiative consists of field demonstrations of a biometric system in Kuware County, Kenya, from April 2019 to March 2020. The United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 with the aim of eradicating poverty and realizing a sustainable society based on the principle of "leave no one behind." Goal No...