Digital identity in the ICT ecosystem: An overview

With almost half the world’s population online, digital identity is more important now than ever. The number of ways for consumers to have their identity compromised has outpaced our ability to protect it. Online purchases, digital payments, loans, government services such as passports and identification cards, tax returns, voting records, health and medical records, and social programmes are just a few of the ways people create online accounts that can be compromised. Digital Identity in the ICT Ecosystem: An Overview presents an overview of the challenges and opportunities involved in securing digital identities that cannot be compromised. It details a plan for the one billion connected people worldwide to establish a digital identity and how governments can protect that identity so that the world’s citizens can trust the technology they use every day in a number of ways.