Session
Organizer 1: Cristian Ioan Duda, World Economic Forum
- Michael Bültmann, Managing Director, HERE Technologies
- Linda Bonyo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LawyersHub
- Sebastian Hufnagel, Government Affairs Manager EMEA, Dell
- Dirk Woywod, Chief Technology Officer, Verimi
- Solana Larsen, Editor of the Internet Health Report, Mozilla
Mark Spelman, Private Sector, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Cristian Duda, Private Sector, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Monika Glowacki, Private Sector, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Panel - Auditorium - 90 Min
- How can we make inclusion, empowerment and agency of individuals a core design element of identity and data models?
- What are high-value use cases that data and digital identity can enable for citizens and consumers, and how can we accelerate their implementation?
- How must roles for governments, businesses and civil society evolve in an increasingly data-driven economy?
Expected Outcomes:
- Broaden shared understanding of individual-centric principles on digital identity and data
- Identify “lighthouse” activities and scalable, replicable best practices from around the world
- Identify priority policy considerations that need multi-stakeholder dialogue and action
GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
GOAL 10: Reduced Inequalities
GOAL 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
GOAL 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Session Structure
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Welcome (10 min) |
World Economic Forum moderator welcomes everybody and introduces the context and objectives of the workshop. |
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Panel (30 min) |
The moderator facilitates a panel conversation focused on:
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Workshop (30 min) |
Rotating group discussion on five governance topics The moderator invites onsite participants to split into five groups each focused a specific sub-theme and led by one of the panelists. Online participants can participate in any topic. Participants will spend 15 min on the topic and then rotate to another group. The objective per topic is to identify:
Break-out topics:
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Wrap-Up / Closing comments (15 min) |
The moderator invites the breakout group leaders to share one main take-away and high-potential idea from their discussion. The moderator summarizes priorities for collaboration and opportunities for broader stakeholders to engage. The moderator thanks all participants and closes the session. |
Relevance to Theme
Growing digital interactions are bringing personal identity data online at an unprecedented rate, creating both opportunities and vulnerabilities. Many governments and businesses are establishing digital identity programs and data models to improve delivery of public and private services to citizens and consumers. While these represent tremendous opportunities for individuals to gain value from the digital economy, inadequate policies and practices can lead to exclusion, discrimination and abuse of personal freedoms. What are individual-centric, scalable policies and practices on identity and data that are creating sustainable value to business, consumers and citizens?
Relevance to Internet Governance
Digital identity and related data governance is a core internet governance issue, as it determines who accesses the internet, how, and receives what services and opportunities. It determines how individuals and institutions are represented on the internet. It determines the level of trust between individuals and institutions on their interactions online. It requires the development and adoption of shared principles, guidance and regulations across governments, private sector and civil society.
We will engage the audience beyond those in the room to crowd in good policy examples and practices on all break-out groups.
Report
- How can we make inclusion, empowerment and agency of individuals a core design element of identity and data models?
- What are high-value use cases that data and digital identity can enable for citizens and consumers, and how can we accelerate their implementation?
- How must roles for governments, businesses and civil society evolve in an increasingly data-driven economy?
Expected outcomes:
- Broaden shared understanding of individual-centric principles on digital identity and data
- Identify “lighthouse” activities and scalable, replicable best practices from around the world
- Identify priority policy considerations that need multi-stakeholder dialogue and action
There was agreement on:
- Digital Identities as opportunity to enable high-potential use cases as well as risk to individual rights
- Principles to be maintained in designing Digital Identity Solutions: Public involvement, Opt-In, Collaboration (you cannot solve identity alone), Standards / Interoperability, Security
- No one-size fits all: e.g. top-down state-imposed identity versus collaborative approaches
Policy recommendations relate to collaborative approaches and respecting privacy and control of individuals:
- Economic: Define incentives and explain to users the benefits of identity [to be addressed in business fora and digital skills]
- Social-cultural: Public consultations, Public-private involvement - to reach critical mass
- Technical policy: Define and adopt common standards / technology exists to approach this [to be addressed by technical, vendor alliances, as well as ethical approaches to AI]
- Overarching policy issues: Define frames for privacy and security before imposing digital identity scehemes.
Examples addressing policy issues:
- National ID Schemes giving agency to indiivduals over their data: Estonia
- Collaboration of public-private sector: UK: Gov.Verify
- Public engagement in designing solutions: Canada, Estonia, Australia
- Technical authentication: FIDO Alliance
- Focus on standardization, harmonization, public engagement, critical-mass of coallitions to avoid monopolies e,g. of large private sector companies or of government surveillance
Estimated participation: 60 participants, 50-50% gender diversity
Digital Identities should not exaccerbate divisions.