The Future of Integrated Digital Governance in the EU: EBSI and GLASS. (arXiv:2212.03218v1 [cs.CR])

In the past, citizen identity has been used within siloed data areas, and
where government agencies have linked citizens across different services. Often
these identifiers were simple alphanumeric strings, and which were assigned by
government agencies. These identifiers are then linked in some way to the
citizen, and where citizens often have to request access to documents that
prove certain aspects of their citizenship. These systems, too, often use
paper-based approaches and have little in the way of real digital …

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