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Good Digital ID Benefits Everyone
Teki Akuetteh Falconer of Africa Digital Rights Hub talks accuracy, data protection, and how she’s pushing forward the policy debate in 2019.
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Calling All Innovators! Help Achieve ‘Good ID’ for the World’s Invisible Billion
The ID4D team at the World Bank are encouraging all to get involved in their Mission Billion innovation challenge.
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The Nail Finds a Hammer
In this excellent report released last fall, New America maps out ID principles and looks hard at self-sovereign identity, design principles and property rights in the developing world.
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African Countries Must Work Together for Good ID
Harvard University's Titi Akinsanmi talks about users taking ownership of identity, pan-African cooperation, and the true meaning of privacy.
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7 Myths of Self-Sovereign Identity
This blog by Evernym CEO Timothy Ruff is the beginning of his two-part explainer on righting the misconceptions around self-sovereign identity, the idea at the heart of Everynm's identity platform.
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Beware of Tech Companies Playing Government
This opinion piece from Marietje Schaake, member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, highlights the concerns of leaving the protection of citizens' rights online to tech companies instead of governments, and insists whomever is ultimately in control of digital rights must be held accountable.
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Digital Identification: A Key to Inclusive Growth
This new research by McKinsey Global Institute explores how digital identity, and ensuring all people have access to good digital identity and legal identity worldwide, will encourage positive inclusive economic growth.
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Documenting Citizenship & Other Forms of Legal Identity: A Community-Based Practitioner's Guide
This guide from Open Society Foundations and Namati in cooperation with UNHCR provides a practical, step-by-step foundation for community-based paralegals and other practitioners who are working around the globe to combat statelessness and a lack of legal identity documentation.
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Private-Sector Digital Identity in Emerging Markets
In this research conducted by Caribou Digital and supported by Omidyar Network, Caribou Digital set out to provide an understanding of how new business models and technologies in the private sector may be used in emerging markets—by firms, states, or NGOs—to provide more inclusive identity solutions.
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Point of View: Digital Identity and Privacy
In its 2017 point of view, Omidyar Network shares its thoughts on how the organization defines digital identity, why digital identity is necessary, and its view on how digital identity can lead to empowerment.
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