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Elizabteh Nyamwange

Elizabeth Nyamwange is a 17-year-old inventor of Etana, a device addressing the identification crisis that affects millions of impoverished women globally.  Her solar-powered fingerprint scanning device enables users to create unique biometric digital identification without relying on internet access. The identification crisis  NPR reports that around one billion people around the world do not have any official identification, leaving them without important documents, including birth certificates and passports.  Nywamwange, who hails from Byron, Illinois, has dedicated herself to solving the worldwide digital identification gap that primarily impacts women in low-infrastructure environments.  She told