“Diversity and inclusion in identity system design is widely acknowledged as being essential for fair access to basic services, but there is little guidance available on how to achieve this. The ultimate goal of this work is a set of guiding principles and how-to-guide for ID teams to help them and make bias more conscious and develop more inclusive products and services as a result.”
Dr Sarah Walton, Women in Identity
Women in Identity strongly believe there is a need for a global Identity Code of Conduct to address identity exclusion—being excluded from access to identification credentials — subsequently leading to exclusion from financial services and products.
EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH SO FAR
Phase 1 - Digital Identity - emerging trends, debates and controversies.
This review, written by Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf (University of London) and Kimberly Fernandes (University of Pennsylvania), summarizes the emerging trends, debates, and controversies surrounding digital identities.
Phase 2 - The Human Cost of ID Exclusion
This report presents desk and qualitative research findings on ID exclusion: interviews with ten vulnerable users and five experts in each country who build ID-based products and/or services, including social security
Phase 3 - The Economic Impact of ID Exclusion
Investigating the Microeconomic, as well as the Macroeconomic impact of ID Exclusion, with The London School of Economics.
Phase 4 - ID Code Of Conduct Principles
A set of evidenced guiding principles based on consultation and design & development workshops and 121 interviews with experts.
Sources:
*World Bank; ID4D; We Are Social Global Digital Report (2018)
*McKinsey: Digital Identification; A key to inclusive growth (2019)
*OIX: ID Challenged Report (2021)
Thank You to Our ID Code of Conduct Research Sponsors!
