About

Digital Identity systems promise to promote inclusive access, accelerate sustainable development, and deliver significant societal benefits around the world. Yet there is no single approach for how sovereign nations will develop trustworthy and resilient digital identity infrastructure that safeguards the public interest. Every jurisdiction is going through their own process of self-determination. Some jurisdictions are far down this path with 1.5 billion digital identity credentials issued and 60 jurisdictional digital identity programs underway. Still, many countries and individuals still lack the digital identity credentials to participate fully and safely in the economy.

The current focus on domestic implementations overshadows a pressing problem: that the identity credentials issued today are not interoperable by default. People cross borders as part of their daily lives – to study, marry, earn a living, trade, seek safety – and businesses need to transact across physical and digital borders. Trustworthy digital transactions – from e-commerce and e-signatures to financial services and the global supply chain – will rely progressively on Digital Identity infrastructure. The resilience and interoperability of these digital identity ecosystems is vital. Left unresolved, we risk a world where some regions, like the EU, achieve deep digital integration while others remain fragmented, reinforcing global divides and digital inequality.

Who we are

A multi-stakeholder effort committed to solving this complex challenge.

SIDI’s mission is to develop an open suite of policy and technical tools to support jurisdictions and cross-border ecosystems in building safe, interoperable digital identity systems.

We believe that by working together, we can create digital identity infrastructure that serves all 8 billion people worldwide — enhancing trust, promoting resilience, and ensuring no one is left behind in the digital economy.

The SIDI Hub Strategy

Over 90% of participants agreed that the work started at the SIDI Hub summit end 2023 must continue in 2024 and beyond.

Building on our inaugural meeting in 2023, the SIDI Hub co-organizing non-profits have been hard at work since.

Through public listening sessions and partner events, SIDI Hub Summits and workshops spanning four continents, the initiative has engaged thousands of participants and over 300 experts to collaboratively shape the future of digital identity.

Our Founding Values

  • Human Centricity

    SIDI applies principles of Human-Centric design and grounds work in core Human Rights instruments published by the United Nations.

  • Domestic Sovereignty

    We respect that each country makes policy and architectural choices informed by values and culture. A pluralism of solutions will need to interoperate.

  • Multilateral Engagement

    SIDI unites communities promoting interoperability. This includes international development, academic, technical, open source and others.

  • Benefit & Use Cases

    We ground requirements in the use cases that add maximum value and a rigorous analysis of the benefits of solving cross-border interoperability.

  • Tech & Policy Normalization

    To enable systems to communicate requires multiple layers of translation: data, protocol, semantics, policy metadata, trust management, legal and regulation.