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Identity in a Digital World
The World Economic Forum's latest insight report provides a stock-take of the current digital identity landscape and proposes 5 key elements to help ensure user-centric identity systems.
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Good ID in 2019: A Year for Action
Last year we saw high profile data breaches, GDPR, and new controls over India's identity program. Now is the time to shape and safeguard identification systems for the better, argues CV Madhukar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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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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