Seychelles
The Seychelles government has launched the SeyID Platform, developed by cybersecurity firm WISeKey International Holding. The project delivers a new Digital Identity platform, SeyID, that is linked with different national initiatives covering eGovernment, eTourism and eHealth.
With this new project, the Seychelles seeks to implement new solutions and services for citizens, including new eGovernment services, to facilitate access to digital identity through the use of smartphones and mobile apps.
The SeyID platform delivered by WISeKey will include additional digital identity services for Seychellois citizens, which will complement the current National Identity Card with a virtual card stored in a mobile app. The project can also enable tourists to create an eTourist ID to access local digital services.
Turkey
Turkey has become the latest country to accelerate its CBDC rollout. The Turkish central bank plans to deploy its digital Lira sometime in 2023.
However, it will also be linked to the country’s digital identity system as stated in the official report.
“The Digital Turkish Lira system will be integrated with digital identity and FAST,” a payment system operated by the central bank.
Australia
Australians remain indifferent when it comes to giving personal details to service providers even after recent data breaches that have made headline news, according to a new survey from Money.com.au.
The survey found that 60 percent, on average, are comfortable or indifferent about giving personal details to large corporations when signing up for services. However, the proportion of those concerned is higher (at 57-68 percent) when asked to give banking information, face photos, tax file numbers or passport details with 28 percent giving at least one fake detail about themselves.
The findings were derived from a mid-October survey of an independent panel of 1010 Australians, commissioned after several data breaches were reported at large Australians corporations.
Global
The global identity as a service (IDaaS) market is projected to reach $16.8 billion by 2027, driven by government initiatives and regulations supporting digital identity transformation.
The new figures from ResearchAndMarkets represent a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.7 percent from 2022, when the IDaaS market is estimated at $5.6 billion.
Beyond digital identity initiatives, other factors behind the adoption of IDaaS technologies include increasing government regulations and the need for compliance, as well as the rise in identity and authentication fraud.
Scotland
The Scottish government has introduced a new digital identity public engagement project.
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Joseph Walton, stakeholder and communications manager, made the announcement in a blog post on Tuesday, saying individuals should actively take part in the definition, design and delivery of the nation’s digital identity service.
“Through many rounds of user research, listening to stakeholders, experts and the public, we have built on the themes first raised within our discovery research to develop the service,” Walton writes.
“Now, as we look to start rolling out and scaling the service in 2023, we are working with independent research and insight company BritainThinks to hear specifically from people who may use the service.”
Philippines
GoTyme Bank, a new digital bank in the Philippines, has partnered with Daon to enable digital identity capture and authentication in its mobile app.
The bank will utilise Daon’s IdentityX platform, which uses document-centric identity proofing technology to help reduce account setup barriers for customers and deliver accurate identity verification and proofing solutions.
As well as in-app authentication, the two companies say that through their partnership, GoTyme Bank will also offer consumers the ability to open an account “in under five minutes” with a paperless process accessible on digital kiosks located in malls and supermarkets across the country in a bid to “drive more financial inclusion and reach as many customers as possible in the Philippines”.
The bank will also leverage Daon’s fraud prevention solutions including biometric watchlists, third-party identity checks and manual review services to complement the ID verification process.
Brazil
Some Brazilian states have begun issuing the digital version of the new Carteira de Identidade Nacional (National Identity Card), with nationwide rollout expected to happen by March 2023, reports Biometric Update.
The new digital ID cards, released by local governments in Alagoas, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Pará, Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, came into effect in August and replace the Registro Geral ID document (RG), which will remain in place till 2033.
According to the report, the digital version of the ID, which can be loaded onto a dedicated biometric mobile phone app, is designed to give Brazilians secure and easy access to services used in daily life.
The Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands government has gazetted two bills for the creation of a digital identity register and the issuance of ID cards to improve how residents interact with the government and businesses and reduce red tape.
The Identification Register Bill 2022 and the Identification Card Bill will be debated at Parliament’s next sitting in December and the public is invited to comment on the pieces of legislation.
United Kingdom
Entrust has had nine of its cloud and associated support services approved for the G-Cloud Framework. This platform enables public bodies in the UK to procure commodity-based, pay-as-you-go cloud services on government-approved, short-term contracts through an online catalogue called the Digital Marketplace.
The Entrust services that are available on the latest iteration of the framework, G-Cloud 13 are as follows:
- Entrust nShield as a Service – cloud Hardware Security Modules
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), as either
- Managed PKI or cloud-based PKI as a Service (PKIaaS)
- SSL Certificates (through its partner Conosco)
- Identity as a Service (IDaaS)
- Managed Certificate Hub
- Managed Root Certificate Authority
- Managed Microsoft PKI within Azure
- Cloud support consultancy – design, onboarding, cryptography and PKI health checks for Entrust G-Cloud services
