Operation Sight’s win at the 2025 Development2030 Awards celebrates the power of partnership in tackling preventable blindness across #Ethiopia.

🎉 A warm welcome for our new team member – Eric Combette! Eric joins Simprints as Engineering Manager, bringing over a decade of experience across the tech and humanitarian sectors.

✨ Looking back on an inspiring week at the NetHope Global Summit 2025: In partnership with Arm, Bill Hoggarth joined Rosalie Tribe to discuss “Bridging the Divide: Biometric Solutions for Last Mile Healthcare in Ghana,” highlighting how ethical innovation can strengthen healthcare access.

We’re excited to be presenting at the NetHope Virtual Conference today. Rosalie Tribe, Senior Manager, Social Impact & Innovation at Arm, and Bill Hoggarth, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Simprints, will be discussing “Bridging the Divide: Biometric Solutions for Last Mile Healthcare in Ghana.”

Simprints is thrilled to be joining the NetHope Global Summit 2025 in Amsterdam! Our Chief Delivery and Impact Officer, Stephen Taylor, will be attending in person this week — if you’re there too, come say hello and connect. 🤝

We’re pleased to announce that Operation Sight has won The SDG Programme of the Year Award! This extraordinary award recognises exceptional, innovative initiatives that significantly advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), delivering proven solutions to key global challenges.

🎉 A warm welcome for our new team member - Nicola Steele! Nicola joins Simprints as Financial Controller. A qualified Chartered Accountant for 25 years, Nicola’s previous role was as Financial Controller for a not-for-profit organisation in the sustainability sector.

Our team recently returned from an impactful trip to Ethiopia, where we had the opportunity to connect with key partners and collaborators working to strengthen health systems and digital innovation.

Access to nutritious food is a human right — a truth we’re reminded of every #WorldFoodDay, and every day after. Yet, according to FAO, millions remain invisible to the systems meant to support them.

On Oct 16, we join the community of Great Place To Work Certified™ companies across the country in celebrating Certification Nation Day and the shared commitment to creating great workplaces for all.

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that the Arm x Simprints coalition has been selected as a finalist for the Partnership of the Year at the Reuters Events Sustainability Awards 2025! #ReutersSustainabilityAwards #SustainabilityAwards2025 #SocialImpact #InnovationForGood #TechForGood #PositiveChange

Last week, Anindya Sharma (Cloud Engineer) delivered a live demonstration of Simprints technology at Cambridge Judge Business School as part of a lecture exploring Simprints story, with Alexandra Grigore (Chief Strategy Officer) joining remotely to share further insights.

Once a month, health extension workers like the woman pictured take this insulated container and travel long distances to collect the vaccines they’ll need for the month ahead.

👁️ On World Sight Day, we’re putting a spotlight on our partnership with Orbis, whose mission to eliminate avoidable blindness is changing lives across Ethiopia. 🔗 Read the full story: bit.ly/4h6MiHQ #WorldSightDay #EyeHealth #DigitalHealth #BiometricsForGood #GlobalHealth

In Ethiopia this week, our team heard powerful stories from patients who recently received TT (trachomatous trichiasis) surgery, including this mother, who kindly gave us permission to share her photo.

👁️ Looking ahead to #WorldSightDay, celebrated annually on October 9. At Sebata Health Center in Ethiopia, Integrated Eye Care Worker Abraham Nigulie shared how biometric identification helps deliver safer, more reliable eye care:

We're thrilled to announce that Operation Sight has been shortlisted for the Development 2030 SDG Programme of the Year award! 🎉

In our latest 25@25 video, Toby Norman, co-founder of @simprints.com, talks about how it uses digital identity tools to link patients to healthcare records to ensure the right medicines & vaccinations go to the right people. #gatescambridge25 @uniofcam.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Thank you to the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network for inviting us to speak at their NNN Annual Conference in Kampala earlier this week – our Project Manager, Valentin Courtay, shared how Simprints is working with Orbis Ethiopia to bring digital solutions into eye care.

✨ Looking back at last week’s Gates Foundation UK Goalkeepers reception with WIRED Consulting during #UNGA80 in New York. It was an honour for our CEO, Toby Norman, to join such inspiring leaders.

🚨 Happening today at the The Labour Party Conference in Liverpool 🚨 Ejemhen Esangbedo, Simprints’ Director of Partnerships, will speak on a panel hosted by the Eleanor Crook Foundation and Gemma Tumelty to discuss safeguarding development priorities and health security.

Looking forward to our Global Project Manager, Valentin Courtay, speaking at the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network Conference in Kampala. He’ll be showcasing how Simprints’ digital solutions are helping to deliver vital eye care services.

💡 Yesterday, Simprints was proud to take part in Autodesk Foundation’s Decade of Impact event, celebrating 10 years of purpose-driven innovation on the sidelines of #UNGA80 in New York.

🗽✨ Simprints has touched down in New York for #UNGA80! Excited to connect with partners, share progress from Ghana and beyond, and explore how privacy-first biometrics can help deliver on the #SDGs. If you’re in town for UNGA, let’s connect! 🤝

Proud to see our work in Ghana spotlighted by LunaVax 💡 Together with Ghana Health Service and our incredible partners, we’re using privacy-first biometrics to make sure every child is counted — no one missed, no dose wasted. 👉 Read more: lnkd.in/gCpyXAva

🌍 Last week, we were honoured to be part of the Gates Foundation UK Goalkeepers reception with Wired Consulting ahead of #UNGA.

🌍 Today on World Patient Safety Day, we join the World Health Organization and the wider health community to reflect on this year's theme “Safe care for every newborn and every child”.

Nearly 1 in 4 children are born without a formal record of existence. Together with Gavi, CIFF, and Arm, we’re launching a new alliance to change that, using AI-powered biometrics from birth to make sure every child gets the vaccines they need. Read more: www.simprints.com/new-alliance...

Congratulations to Toby Norman, CEO of @simprints.com, who spoke at an event in London this evening after being named as a UK Goalkeeper earlier this year by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social #SDGs @uniofcam.bsky.social

Happy Ethiopian New Year! እንኳን ደስ አለዎት አዲስ ዓመት! 🎉 We wish our everyone celebrating a joyful and prosperous year ahead.

📸 A snapshot from our recent briefing at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance with CEO Dr. Sania Nishtar, where we were joined by Bertrand Pedersen and Tamer H. Farag from the Private Sector team.

🌍 This week marks the start of #UNGA80. We're excited to see the conversations, ideas, and collaborations that will emerge as leaders and innovators come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.

The results of our Safe Biometrics for Humanitarian Aid project are being presented today at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) organised by the IEEE Biometrics Council!

Last week, Ejemhen Esangbedo, Agata Kaczmarek and Toby Norman from our team were in Nigeria. We were grateful to meet with the Nutrition team at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Nigeria.

Last month, Chief Delivery and Impact Officer, Stephen Taylor and Head of Monitoring Evaluation and Impact, Carla Lewis, joined our team in Ghana and our partners from University of Michigan and University of Ghana School of Public Health to plan our first ever full scale randomised control trial.

Looking ahead to International Identity Day on September 16th! #IDDay This year's theme, 'My Identity, My Umbrella', is a powerful reminder that a legal identity should act as a shield, protecting and empowering individuals.

Simprints is proud to be a featured organisation in the Center for High Impact Philanthropy's High Impact Giving Toolkit.

The energy is building as we approach the United Nations General Assembly in New York! This is a key moment to engage in critical conversations and align with the global community on a shared agenda to build a more equitable future for all. #UNGA #UNGA80 #GlobalGoals #UnitedNations #HealthEquity

#TechTuesday: What actually happens to your fingerprint once it’s scanned? At Simprints, we collect only the data that’s absolutely necessary — nothing more. Your fingerprint is used solely to help you securely access your health records.

Read Global Citizen's latest article, 'Face to Face With Care: How Biometric Tech Is Rewriting Maternal Health in Rural Ghana', exploring the powerful impact Simprints biometric technology has had in the Eastern Region of Ghana: bit.ly/3Jtt0Q1 #healthinnovations #tech4good #maternalhealth

The countdown to this year's United Nations General Assembly is on! The team is preparing for this pivotal week in New York, where global leaders gather annually to tackle the world's most pressing challenges.

Simprints is a proud member of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance. This dynamic network brings together leading organizations and innovators dedicated to tackling some of the world's most pressing global health challenges.

📖 Impact evidence: how Simprints' technology is improving community health in Ethiopia Zerihun*, a disease prevention expert in Ethiopia, is part of a community-wide mass drug distribution campaign to combat soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis. *Photo is not of the subject.

❓ What are biometric systems? What do they do? And how do they differ from other systems with similar goals? ➡️ Simprints' Responsible Biometric Deployment Handbook answers these questions and more, offering guidance on safe selection and deployment, as well as ongoing rights.

As Uganda begins its nationwide rollout of the malaria vaccine, ensuring children complete the full vaccination schedule has never been more urgent. Many receive the first dose, but without strong follow-up, too many never return for the third or fourth.

#TechTuesday: Biometrics usually means big processors, heavy software, and top-of-the-line hardware. But that’s not the reality for many of our users. So our tech team did something different: they made it all work on a basic, old smartphone.

📖 Impact evidence: how Simprints' technology can be a lifeline in an emergency Akililu, a farmer and father of three, was on his way home when he was involved in a hit-and-run accident that left him unconscious. He was found by a passing minibus and taken to a local health post.

This August, for National Immunization Awareness Month, we're reminded of the critical importance of vaccines. While global childhood vaccination rates doubled between 1980 and 2023, progress has stagnated in the last decade, a trend worsened by the pandemic, as reported by The Lancet Group.

✨ Simprints is proud to be a former winner of The Elevate Prize Foundation, a community dedicated to amplifying the voices of social impact leaders and inspiring positive change.

📖 Impact evidence: how Simprints can help transform health services 👇 Two years ago, Sosina* faced a lengthy and frustrating experience at a health centre in Boloso Sore Woreda, waiting for treatment following eye surgery.