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Work item:
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D.DigID
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Subject/title:
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Guidelines for digital identity
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Status:
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[Carried to next study period]
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Approval process:
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TAP
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Type of work item:
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Recommendation
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Liaison:
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ITU-T SG17
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Supporting members:
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India, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Bahamas, El Salvador, Honduras and Paraguay
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Summary:
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According to the World Report, Digital Dividends (2016), there are nearly 2.4 billion people in the world who are not registered in the formal systems like paper based identification (ID) etc. Most of these people belong to the poorest and marginalised sections of the society and are thus excluded from range of rights and services. Identity should be a public good. Its importance is now recognized in the post-2015 development agenda, specifically as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target to "promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels." One of the indicators is to "provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030." The best way to achieve this goal is through digital identity (digital ID) systems, central registries storing personal data in digital form and credentials that rely on digital, rather than physical, mechanisms to authenticate the identity of their holder.
Thus, Digital IDs are the powerful instrument to provide identities to those who require it the most. However, views on protection of digital identity tend to take one of the two extremes:
i. Create powerful safeguards to keep private information private; or
ii. Let businesses do what they need to do with little safeguards.
The Digital ID schemes tend to be complex, costly and subject to failure to deliver on high expectations. There are also following areas of concern that emerge:
" Legal and Regulatory
" Institutional and administrative
" Technological
It is therefore, important to develop guidelines on policy, economic and market aspects of digital identity with an overall aim to develop a comprehensive, global, secure, interoperable and minimalistic digital identity policy. To begin with, following features can be initial text to begin discussion on the proposed guidelines
i. Only Numbers - No Smart Cards
ii. Random Numbers - No Intelligence, No Profiling
iii. Uniqueness - Ensured through biometric attributes
iv. Voluntary in nature
v. All residents- including children
vi. Ensuring security and privacy of information
vii. Ubiquitous authentication from no ID to online ID
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Comment:
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First registration in the WP:
2016-03-09 16:09:15
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Last update:
2016-03-20 21:33:15
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