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.

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“The Trust Alliance is a new way of coordinating humanitarian action.

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.”

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“The Trust Alliance is a new way of coordinating humanitarian action.

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.”

Download Lite Paper

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

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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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Pilots & Programs

Identification, prioritisation and development of pilots and projects that support the use of trusted credentials and deliver insights and learnings back to the Trust Alliance.
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Technical Standards & Governance

Development of the model for technical governance of a registry of trusted organisations to enable credentials to be shared.
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Research & Insights

Develop a research agenda that addresses the issues and opportunities with trusted digital credentials as well as measure and evaluate the impact of the initiative.
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Steering Committee

The Steering Committee guides overall strategy, direction and development of the Trust Alliance.
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