Insights
Our foresight programmes generate insights and views of the future, that can be used to provoke discussion, response, thought and innovation.
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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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Our foresight programmes generate insights and views of the future, that can be used to provoke discussion, response, thought and innovation.
History is littered with horrific examples of the consequences of formally assigning identity markers (race, religion etc.). Digital ID will be no different.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/identity-victims/
Calls for self-sovereign digital ID – or the ‘controlled sharing’ principles on which it is based – are likely to increase, as are attempts to build it.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/self-sovereign-id/
China’s super apps and India’s IndiaStack are already expanding into, and influencing, other geographies. Digital ID tech will ‘follow the money’.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/influence-of-scale/
Digital ID provides the vehicle for managing digital rights – when to be anonymous, when to be seen, when its ok to be monitored, etc.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/digital-rights-management/
Digital ID increases accountability in public online spaces, where online behaviours can be traced back to offline identities.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/increased-accountability/
Digital IDs enable the tracing of contribution of individual ‘chunks’ of data in data-driven services, allowing for all contributors to be fairly recompensed.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/data-ip-attribution/
Digital ID enables provenance of all ‘owned data’ including data provided by, say, passive sensors in cars, much of which may not be personal at all.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/data-provenance/
Digital ID enables decentralized, or even non-university, qualification acquisition and presentation given growth in online, skills-based education.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/digital-id-as-qualifications-wallet/
Digital ID attributes enable monitoring of, ‘good behaviour’, e.g., carbon footprint tracking. In the hands of some, this evolves into social scoring.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/social-scoring/
Digital ID has the potential to play a critical role in social and economic life. A new range of economic opportunities and markets will emerge around it.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/new-digital-id-markets/
Identity attributes, currently understood as unique (e.g. fingerprint) become unusable or ‘null’ as they are exposed in continued breaches.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/null-attributes/
Digital ID’s highly accurate and relatively clean surveillance data, will lead to mass surveillance in some states and market economies.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/super-surveillance/