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Processes of production and reproduction underscoring internationalisation engenders constancy of capital and spatial dispensation of power over the ‘long duree’ and within the confines of global class relations that increasingly translates to universal digital divides. This structuration phenomenon permeates the global mobility regime reflecting the fundamental predicament of contemporary political tensions between universal rights and universal fears. Accordingly, the ideation of an unbounded universal personhood forms the centrepiece of public policy responses to the proliferation of e-government and attendant digitalisation of national identity management strategies.

Notwithstanding disparities in e-government maturity levels this article undertakes a comprehensive analysis of government readiness for biometric authentication technology, considered state-of-the art precision technology. Principal evaluative domains pertain to e-government, and statistical analysis of world econometric panel data.

Part 1: e-Government Uptake, considers the institutional and normative context in terms of: (a) the Biometrics market as an international regime; and (b) Socio-Political Preferences.

Part 2: Graphical Analysis, utilises the diagrammatic device of the flowchart to explain the process of: (a) biometric authentication; and (b) the modalities of the biometric regime.

Part 3: Statistical Analysis, extends to the customisation of a composite model predicated on a formulative duration world model. Construction of the composite index yields auxiliary transformation indices that elucidate latent country dimensionalities.

Results of the Statistical Analysis correspond to contemporaneous global transitions, specifically regime hybridisation explicated by associated institutional transitions in democratic order, and of the world market.

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