Alison McDowell, I could not agree more with your point after reading why the "legislation to enable reusable, interoperable digital identities and attributes will progress in the U.K." Government, and rightfully so, sees these efforts as an important step towards:
* Ensuring economic growth
- the data economy accounts for 6.9% of the UK's GDP
- data is critical for 77% of UK businesses and for 99% of them with more than 10 employees
- data verification services are expected to bring £600 million a year in benefits to the UK economy
- it will boost national productivity, be a cost saver, and will boost trade
* Enabling new innovative, safe, secure, and responsible uses of data to be developed and deployed
* Improving people’s lives by
- making public services work better
- reforming data sharing and standards
- scientists and researchers make more life-enhancing discoveries
- improving data laws
- ensuring that data is well protected by giving the regulator (the ICO) new, stronger powers and a more modern structure.
In other words, these regulatory efforts will contribute to fundamentally rearchitecting the underlying architecture of our digitally-led (physical) lives and societies. These regulatory efforts will help clear a path for the role out of the other three key societal architectural pillars that we must transform: technology, commercial models, and education.
On the technology front, there is much that needs to be done, especially when it comes to individual identity, organizational identity, and the securing of our communications channels. We need to reliably and economically deeply at scale verifiable branded calling, messaging, and more. We need to find a way to create systematic and systemic trust, including the visual queues that people can rely on. The pillars for trusted voice communications is actually the topic of a webinar I'll be moderating tomorrow.
#BrandedCalling #DigitalCredentials #OrganizationalIdentity #Trust #VerifiedDelegagedAuthoritiy #VerifiedMessaging BICS Identity Praxis, Inc. Information Commissioner's Office Mobile Ecosystem Forum Fourm Numeracle.
Legislation to enable reusable, interoperable digital identities and attributes will progress in the U.K.
Page 40 outlines the plans for Digital Verification Services.
https://lnkd.in/eRjjEHfD
King_s_Speech_2024_background_briefing_notes.pdf
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