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  The GOV.UK Verify Approach to Identity Verification

  Dr. Edgar A. Whitley, Associate Professor (Reader) in Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, gives his overview of the UK government’s unique model for proving identity online.

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  Reflections on India’s Ruling of its Aadhaar Biometric Digital Identity System

  Subhashish Bhadra - Bangalore-based investment principal at Omidyar Network and former McKinsey consultant - reflects on the new guidance for Aadhaar, India’s 1.2 billion people strong nationwide digital identity system and the world’s largest biometric ID database.

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  “Without an ID, you don’t exist:” Gender and Identity on International Women’s Day

  Savita Bailur - Research Director at Caribou Digital and Visiting Fellow and External Lecturer at London School of Economics - outlines key findings from Caribou Digital’s research about the relationship between ID and gender.

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  Top 100 Influencers in Identity

  One World Identity outline their top 100 most influential people to know in the identity and identification space.

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  #MissionBillion: Your Ideas Can Transform the Lives of the Invisible Billion

  In this introductory video, program manager Vyjayanti Desai explains ID4D's Mission Billion Challenge.

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  Say Hello to Yoti’s new Social Impact Strategy

  In this blog post Ken Banks, Head of Social Impact at Yoti, a London-based technology company on a mission to become the world’s trusted identity platform, introduces the organization’s new Social Impact Strategy and key activities related to it.

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  It’s Time for a Bill of Data Rights

  Martin Tisné argues that "data ownership" is a counterproductive way of thinking about data and suggests that, instead, we need “a new paradigm” that sees data as fundamental to the relationships between people and institutions.

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  Privacy Is a Seminal Issue of the 21st Century

  Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC and Shorenstein fellow, talks about agile government, duty of care, privacy, and policy making in an age of rapid technological advancement.

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  The Difference Between Digital Identity, Identification, and ID

  Caribou Digital's Jonathan Donner unpacks the nuances of these three related, but critically separate, terms.

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  Digital ID: Why It Matters, and What We're Doing About It

  The social change-makers at The Engine Room make a compelling case for broadening the digital ID debate – and explore how it has a very real impact on our lives.

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