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Platform news
🌍 The open Identity Exchange is trying to standardise datatypes held against a digital identity. It is at least refreshingly honest about competing standards e.g. for name and address it says: “Too many standards”. It has excluded things like right to work and visas.
🇯🇵 Japan’s MyNumber digital identity system is having some issues with linking to health insurance records. There has been a recent call by some academics to reset the whole programme by creating a new digital team along the lines of the one setup to reset Obamacare.
🇮🇳The DigiLocker digital wallet is getting Google Files support for accessing Indian government credentials stored. (Includes GIF of how it works).
🌎 Google and MOSIP have joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Digital Wallet
🌏 The G20 has backed the idea of digital public infrastructure
Software is politics
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