While many countries are still beginning to discuss the role of digital identity in society, Estonia has had a digital identity in place for 20 years. Estonia’s digital identity system operates on the principle of ‘once only,’ where citizens only need to provide information to the government once, which is then shared across government departments.
Elsewhere, India’s Aadhaar, a pioneering biometric digital identification system, has reduced government fraud by a remarkable $9 billion over five years and provided a secure and efficient means of identity verification for over a billion citizens.
