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Digital Identity Toolkit Section 4: Case Studies Digital Identity Toolkit Section 4: Case studies Published by the Social Purpose Team at Yoti June 2020 What is this Contents Toolkit? Introduction 08 How people are using digital identities around the world 14 Government case studies 16 Digital identity is a relatively new can understand. We hope this Toolkit Government administration 21 but rapidly evolving sector that can can help close that gap. and will affect many aspects of our Addressing social challenges 22 everyday lives. This Toolkit has been designed to help you find everything you need Digital identities verify and to know about digital identity. Education 23 authenticate someone’s identity. Before producing it, we spoke with They can then be used to access individuals and non-profits around a wide range of services and the world to get a sense of what Health 24 opportunities, from health and they’d like to know about digital education services, voting and identities. Healthcare and food assistance 26 travelling, through to online shopping The audience for this Toolkit are and dating. Governments and Agriculture 28 the private sector are developing members of the public, non-profits, and implementing digital identity entrepreneurs, developers, journalists solutions, and they’re likely to become and academics who want to learn Lands and assets registration 30 increasingly common in the future. more about digital identity and how digital identities might be relevant to While there is already a lot of them in their lives or work. Digital ID solutions for refugees 32 information on this topic, much of it is in lengthy, technical reports that We hope you find this Toolkit helpful Yoti key in areas of crisis 34 hasn’t been collated into a simple and welcome your feedback about how it could be improved. format that non-technical people Private sector case studies 36 Retail 39 Travel 40 Online dating 42 Accessing financial services 45 Due diligence for regulators and financial institutions 49 Further reading 53 Digital Identity Toolkit - Section 3: Digital identity explained Summary Section 3 described what a digital identity is, the different Public and private sector national identity use types of digital identity and why digital identity matters. This Section aims to bring everything we’ve shared so far India has the world’s largest national digital identity system, to life by giving real world examples of how governments, known as Aadhaar. It has over 1.2 billion users and relies charities, NGOs and the private sector use digital identities on biometric data for validation. Citizens use it to access in different ways around the world. government services, and financial providers can use it to undertake due diligence. It can be used to open a bank First we look at examples of how people use digital identities account, file tax returns, receive a pension or receive other to make their lives easier. Ella uses hers to enter nightclubs government subsidies. and office buildings, order online prescriptions and access a whole range of sites online, while Michael plans to relocate In Canada, SecureKey Concierge relies on authentication by abroad and uses his to open a local bank account and rent financial institutions to enable citizens to access dozens of an apartment. Rahul uses his to protect himself from fraud, government services. while Anya uses her digital identity to apply for financial assistance from the state. Digital identities are also used to improve government administration. In Japan, a cloud-based system enables national and local public agencies to seamlessly track and share information. In Singapore, the Moments of Life Accessing government services initiative bundles government services and information. It uses data to anticipate citizens’ specific needs as they reach Governments across the world are developing or deploying key life moments, such as marriage or the birth of a child. digital ID solutions which help citizens access public and, in some instances, private services. The UK’s GOV.UK Verify service enables citizens to access public services, while e-Estonia is renowned as the most highly-developed national ID card system in the world, covering over 90% of the population. It allows citizens to access any public e-service, reduces bureaucracy and speeds up the process of many daily tasks. It can be used for banking, signing documents, obtaining digital medical prescriptions or for business operations. Digital Identity Toolkit - Section 4: Case studies 5 Addressing social challenges Private sector case studies Digital identity can address a whole range of social The private sector is also building solutions that aim to challenges. Many countries are now registering births give customers safe and efficient access to public and digitally. This is a critical type of digital identification as birth financial services. Examples include NemID in Denmark, registration is often the gateway to accessing services, such BankID in Norway and Sweden, and TUPAS in Finland. In as health and education, throughout life. iCivil in Burkina the Caribbean, Juvo’s Flow Lend solution enables Cable & Faso is an example of this. Wireless prepaid mobile customers to establish a financial (functional) identity, which gives customers access to airtime In India, Aadhaar is used in the education system to access credit. student scholarships, online courses and to track attendance. In Pakistan, computerised national identity cards are used for In the retail sector, Komplett, one of Europe’s biggest e-trade cash transfers, voting rights and opening bank accounts. companies, uses the Signicat digital identity platform for rapid online payments, and in China customers can pay for Digital identification is also improving health outcomes their online shopping at Alibaba’s or at KFC restaurants by globally. Botswana uses digital national identification scanning their fingerprints, or through facial recognition. numbers to track adherence and adverse reactions to antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV across the The United Arab Emirates has released a digital smart wallet country’s decentralised health facilities. Thailand has a app to replace paper-based travel identity documents such digitised national population register and digital personal as passports, and the government is creating a ‘biometric identification numbers for the successful implementation border’ which will use facial recognition scanners to verify a of a universal coverage scheme, guaranteeing subsidised traveller’s identity. healthcare to all citizens. It is also used to track vaccinations, produce vital statistics that guide public health policy and to Financial institutions and regulators also use digital IDs to monitor health system performance. undertake due diligence. For example, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation is working to create a standardised Digital identification is used in the agricultural sector, too. global view of legal entities, and in Spain a consortium of Nigeria and Estonia have digitised agricultural subsidies, and banks uses a blockchain platform to create digital identities in Malaysia land registration is digitised and uses fingerprint designed to counter money laundering and boost KYC readers to reduce fraud. Farmers also have unique digital (know your customer) efforts. profiles which can be used to track market attendance and receive extension services. Uruguay has implemented a digital livestock traceability system. Uganda has created a web-based refugee information management system to issue ID cards to refugees so they can access special entitlements, including discounted education and healthcare. Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt use a digital refugee assistance information system to monitor and coordinate humanitarian aid. This is an inter-agency tool for tracking assistance, referrals and assessment information. Yoti has developed an offline system for smartphones and tablets that can assign a refugee or internally displaced person with a digital identity, which can then be used to access humanitarian services. Digital Identity Toolkit - Section 4: Case studies 7 Introduction Section 3 helped define digital programmeme to help them adjust Strong ID can also support financial on liquified petroleum gas (LPG) identity, shared some of the different to civilian life. Following iris scans, inclusion. In Kenya, bank, mobile cylinders with direct bank transfers. types of digital identity, and explained 110,000 received an ID card and a and micro-finance account holders why digital identity matters. This PIN, which they could use to collect are identified by their national Robust ID credentials can also section aims to bring more of this 13 monthly cash payments from over ID numbers. Negative and (more facilitate free movement of people information to life by giving you 8,000 airtime sales agents. In rural recently) positive credit histories across Africa’s numerous borders examples about how governments, areas, where distribution through are shared across the system. Non- without compromising security. The charities, NGOs and the private vendors proved difficult, mobile financial entities, such as utility 15 ECOWAS member states are taking sector use digital identities around the teams delivered cash using only iris companies, may also participate on a the lead. The community plans to world. scans for identification. reciprocal basis. The result has been launch a biometric ID card to serve a sharp fall in the number of non- as a travel document in the region. We’ll dip into
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