IBMATA Border Management and Technologies Summit Asia Pacific Rescheduled to 5th – 7th November 2024 in Manila, Philippines

IBMATA Border Management and Technologies Summit Asia Pacific Rescheduled to 5th - 7th November 2024 in Manila, Philippines The International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA) is pleased to announce the rescheduling of the IBMATA Border Management and Technologies Summit Asia Pacific to take place from 5th to 7th November 2024. The

Expert Workshop on Future Border Management in Africa

On 9 May 2023 IBMATA in conjunction with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the South African Border Management Authority (BMA) conducted an expert workshop looking at the challenges and opportunities for the development of future border management systems and processes in Africa. You can download the full report here

North America 2.0 : Forging a Continental Future

The edited volume, North America 2.0: Forging a Continental Future, has now been released by the Canada and Mexico Institutes of the Woodrow Wilson Center in concert with co-sponsors at Harvard’s Belfer Center Homeland Security Project, Aspen Mexico and the University of Victoria. You can find the publication available online here: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/north-america-20-forging-continental-future.

Biometric ETA is here to stay: Capturing rich identity data before travel

An Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) is not a visa; it’s a simpler, quicker, and mostly automated process by which non-visa travelers declare their identity information before leaving home. A concept that began with the Australian ETA and U.S. ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) has been surprisingly slow to catch on in other countries,

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