CRVS-Centric Interoperability Framework

Lab in development — full brief coming soon.

Most national digital stacks treat civil registration as a back-office function — a system that produces certificates, sitting next to identity, health and social protection rather than driving them. We believe the inverse: a CRVS (Civil Registration and Vital Statistics) system designed for interoperability becomes the spine of public services, with every life event (birth, death, marriage, migration) propagating to the systems that depend on it.

This Lab will explore:

• A reference architecture where CRVS is the source of truth for vital events, exposed through standard building blocks.
• Event-driven flows linking civil registration to foundational ID, vaccination registries, social protection rolls, voter rolls and statistical reporting.
• Governance and legal patterns that make this propagation safe (consent, purpose limitation, error correction).
• Migration paths from legacy registries to modern interoperable platforms — without breaking continuity.

If you are working on civil registration modernisation or interoperability for vital events, we would like to hear from you.