Both governments and private digital services are expaning to include the large majority of services that used to be handled in-person or by a phone call. This is clearly lowering the cost of providing access to resources that are available physically and well as on-line. The challenge yet to be faced is to ensure the the rush to provide a digital infrastructure is to ensure that all people that have a legitimate right to access the service that are now controlled through a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) are not restricted by their ability to navigate the developing digital user experience.
This repository is where feedback for any inclusion issues with the RIUP Digital Identifier Inclusion Final Report and related reports are to be collected and addressed.
This site is now officially open for comment as of the October 1, 2024 publication of the Digital Identifier Inclusion report from Kantara Intitiative's Resilient Identifiers for Underserved Populations Work Group (RIUP-WG). The approved report can be viewed as a PDF from this Kantara page (RIUP Digital Identifier Inclusion Final Report) in the Kantara Reports and Recomendations page
Suggestions or comments should be posted as Issues here.
The current draft of the Inclusive Purpose and Consent Query word document is maintained on this page as work group development proceeds. This draft recommendation describes a way for a verifier to request information from any holder's device. Only if the holder agrees will any response be sent to the verifier. If the holder does not wish to release information to the verifier, no response from the holder releases no information. This draft is in word format and may need to be downloaded to your computer to be read. When you click on the above link, you will be taken to a page with a download link. ↓ Click on that link to download the word doc.
The followin commegnts have been made by other organizations aobut the need for Inclusion for Goverment approved Identification documentation.
<“Digital public infrastructure is key everywhere, but especially in developing countries. We look forward to driving multi-stakeholder collaboration around the development and deployment of globally interoperable wallets that help close the gap between the digital ‘haves’ and ‘have nots.'” – Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU Secretary-General.
This comment was quoted in a joint press release on May 28, 2024 by the UNICC, Linux Foundation and the Open Wallet Foundationnin support of the development of the Open Wallet Forum. Doreen Bogdan-Martin is the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 1,000 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations.
Report from the ACM - STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF MANDATORY COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY REGULATIONS https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/ustpc-mandatory-accessibity-standards-statement.pdf (2024-05-31) takes the approach that the ADA should be expanded, whereas this report suggestes that the ADA is not the best place to define how digital identitiers should be described.