In ancient Greece, a pinakion was a small bronze or wooden plate used as a form of citizen's token.

• Hardware
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Identity

The link you share when someone asks what you do.

• Social networks
• Identity
• Open social

Serve your community. Protect their privacy.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

Community Technology Based on Data Sovereignty

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Predecessors & Pioneers

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group will develop a set of Standards Track specifications that enable creation of decentralized global networks for publication of self-certifying data.

• Decentralization
• Data schemas and standards
• Identity

Identity-verified civic engagement platform where citizens participate in polls, surveys, and community discussions with authenticated identities, providing organizations with trustworthy public opinion data.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Identity

Let your users sign in to your service with their email address, password and two-factor authentication.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Identity

Our research project aims to understand how Karen refugees in Thailand experience digital identity systems and to inform the development of digital identity systems which are fair for the people who use them.

• Academia
• Identity

An exhibition of drawings by Karen refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border.

• Artistic interventions
• Identity

Project Parichay is a digital identity generator that provides proof of identity and dignity to India's 450 million informal workers who currently lack official documentation.

• Identity

ProConnect, l'accès pour les pros, validé par l'État

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

NatioID empowers citizens with a unified digital identity system that promotes secure access, transparency, and participation in national digital governance.

• Voting and elections
• Identity
• E-voting and I-voting

Russia's state-controlled, unencrypted messaging (super)app.

• Govtech
• Identity
• Chat and messaging

Colombia requiere de una identificación que sea la llave de acceso a los servicios ciudadanos digitales a cargo del Estado colombiano y a las demás entidades que ya prestan servicios a través de internet.

• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

We analyzed the case of the Colombian digital ID app (“Cédula Digital”) during the second half of 2024 and early 2025. Very little is known about its functionality, and public information about how it works is scarce.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Senegal and Gates Foundation Seal $10M Deal to Accelerate Digital Transformation

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Identity

The report assesses digital ID and government digital services in Kenya and Zambia, noting significant strides in digitisation but also persistent gaps in enforcement, capacity, and inclusivity.

• reports

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

The Belarus ID project is a secure, data-encrypted digital identity system through which Belarusians (including exiles) could authenticate themselves and participate in the 2024 Rada-in-exile election.

• Blockchain
• Identity

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. 2.7 million signatures as of 3 October 2025

• Specific campaigns
• Petitions
• Identity

This guide seeks to serve as a comprehensive toolkit to enable different parties to make informed decisions around proposed digital ID systems.

• guides

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Two days of intensive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning for the future of digital public infrastructure.

• Conferences
• Identity
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials, by establishing best practices and through collaborative development of digital wallet technology to enable standards-based OSS components that issuers, and wallet providers can rely on.

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Identity

Open Voter ID is like OpenID, to allow third-party websites to confirm registered voters' city of residence.

• Voting and elections
• Identity

As more and more jurisdictions require digital platforms to verify their users' age, the European Commission has launched a white label, open source solution for EU Member States that's built on the European Digital Identity Wallet framework and supports compliance with Article 28 of the Digital Services Act.

• youth

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Unlocking a new generation of social apps, where users stay private without losing historical actions and identities

• Rarimo

• Decentralization
• Blockchain
• Identity

A personal digital wallet for EU citizens and residents

• Govtech
• Identity

Gestisci la tua identità digitale e accedi velocemente ai servizi online con l’app CieID.

• apps

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

The UK government is launching a GOV.UK Wallet and App to simplify access to services and documents like digital driver’s licences

• apps
• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Governments across the globe are on their way to building national-scale digital infrastructure. A comprehensive view of the state of DPI, however, is missing. The DPI Map addresses this.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Identity

Building a Digital Ecosystem for Refugees

• refugees

• Access social benefits
• Decentralization
• Identity

MOSIP offers countries modular and open-source technology to build and own their national identity systems.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Govtech
• Identity

We envision mosip16.9 to be a collaborative hub where diverse perspectives converge to contribute to the current discourse on digital identity.

• Govtech
• News and blogs
• Identity

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Digital Benefits Network (DBN) at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are collaborating on a two-year-long collaborative research and development project to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to better support the implementation of public benefits policy and delivery while balancing security, privacy, equity, and usability.

• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Identity

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

• Identity
• Open science

In a new series of blogs, Richard Pope looks at concrete examples of digital transparency, accountability and recourse from around the world.

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Identity

AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity
• Direct aid

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

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• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Identity

Open source identity solution. "Our vision is that every person on the planet is recognised, protected and provided for from birth"

• Govtech
• Identity

Data reveals a patchwork of approaches to digital identities across the continent with varying levels of success.

• Govtech
• Identity

With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

A group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

Discover the Estonian eID (Estonian: ID-kaart), its major applications and benefits for all citizens.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns