The world needs an ethical approach to digital identity
The Trust Alliance is helping people to identify themselves on their own terms.
We have commenced with digital credentials so that organisations can deploy humanitarian workers and volunteers rapidly and safely in times of crisis.
Our work is creating trust standards that are open, inclusive, and equitable for all.
The Trust
Alliance
In June 2019 a group of non-profit, academic and technology organisations came together with a common purpose – to develop an identity ecosystem that would:
- Give people better access to help when they need it;
- Enable genuine civic, social and economic participation for all;
- Create greater self-agency and control for those who are vulnerable;
- Provide voice to marginalised communities, and;
- Document the undocumented.
The Trust Alliance focuses on producing the organisational governance and technical guidelines for how decentralised credentials should be implemented. Drawing upon a combination of open source tools and standards, anchored in real world use cases being led by member organisations.
Using distributed technologies, an individual can access a credential and share it with another as needed, knowing that their personal information remains safe and secure.”
Using distributed technologies, an individual can access a credential and share it with another as needed, knowing that their personal information remains safe and secure.”
Why is this important?
In our digitally enmeshed world, access to a trusted and verifiable digital identity is essential to human dignity.
Our mission is to lead the emergence of a useful and ethical digital identity ecosystem.
To contribute to our mission, we collectively work towards the following goals:
- Equal access to digital identity that is universally recognised by everyone; and
- Global recognition and adoption of ethical digital identity with the regulatory and technology infrastructure in place to enable it.
How We Work
We pursue our vision and purpose by providing our members with a forum to identify identity use cases, advocate for the update of decentralised identity, and co-create shared standards and open source tools. We welcome new members and collaborators, to learn how to get involved: hello@trustalliance.org.au
How We Work
We pursue our vision and purpose by providing our members with a forum to identify identity use cases, advocate for the update of decentralised identity, and co-create shared standards and open source tools. We welcome new members and collaborators, to learn how to get involved: hello@trustalliance.org.au
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