Video and blog post by WPF Founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon commemorating International ID Day 2024, discussing the importance of ensuring legal identity for all people, and the equal importance of ensuring that identity systems and ecosystems Do no Harm and are built so they cannot do harm now, nor in the future.
ID4Africa celebrates its 10th Annual General Meeting this year in Cape Town, South Africa with a program that pushes against multiple boundaries and achieves a new breadth and greater inclusion of diverse stakeholders. ID4Africa’s AGM is easily the most significant identity conference in the world at this point. There are multiple reasons for this; an important one is that the knowledge content at ID4Africa is not replicated anywhere else. In the past, this knowledge base has been focused primarily around government stakeholders. This year, this roster will now carefully expand to civil society organizations that have been deeply involved with African ID systems to gather additional perspectives and foster cooperative dialogue.
WPF’s Pam Dixon will be in Kigali, Rwanda to be the lead instructor on a course on digital identity ecosystems as a lecturer for Carnegie Mellon University, as part of their CEE-TP Courses for IT and policy in the developing world. This course, Identity Ecosystems and Digital Transformation: the key technical, legal, and policy considerations
WPF submitted comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking regarding Personal Financial Data Rights. This was a particularly important NPRM because it touches on multiple aspects of financial data in our modern era, which means that it touches privacy, identity, poverty, and digital rights in the financial sector. WPF
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting an overview and discussion of the state of the US digital identity ecosystem at the Federal Identity Forum this week, and how privacy regulations and standards operate within the evolving landscape, including a discussion of the emerging mobile ID landscape in the US. This will be the