SSI models offer best hope for building effective digital ID, academics posit

Authors of a position paper which delves into the technical and legislative frameworks of some digital identity systems around the world have expressed a penchant for the self-sovereign identity (SSI) model, saying it offers “the best technical and governance conditions for building a national digital identity management system.”

This, the authors believe, is especially important in a context where state surveillance and all forms of cyber-crime are on the rise, just as is the yearning for trust by citizens and …

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