Bhutan stands up self-sovereign identity with a small team and smaller budget

Bhutan is amongst the poorest and least-developed countries in the world, ranked 134th out of 203 by the United Nations Development Programme. That may make it seem like an unlikely place to look for a digital ID system pioneering self-sovereign identity. But that is what Bhutan’s identity authority has developed.

Jacques Von Benecke, chief technology officer of Bhutan’s Druk Holding & Investments (DHI), which runs the National Digital Identity (NDI) agency, tells Biometric Update in an interview that the country …

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