> [!summary] **Digital identity** > Electronically captured and stored attributes and credentials used to uniquely identify a person. What components can be used? - Biometrics (fingerprints, facial features, DNA sequencing) - Biographics (name, date of birth) - Government issued identification (birth certificate, SIN, passport) - Passwords The lack of digital identity is most damaging for the economy of developing countries (as in, we need that to integrate them in the system.) But is that a good thing? => IDEA FOR A STORY # Ideas - It might be that digital identities policies and infrastructures recommandations are offered by a task group of the UN. Then, it becomes an [ECOSOC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council) function to verify the integrity of digital identity processes. - For it to be a global system, it has to be linked to some kind of global citizenship program? A UN citizenship status? What becomes of those without papers? - What will be the access to communication technology infrastructures in my world? How will it change? At what rate? - Intellectual property can be linked to your [[global citizenship]] ID at the UN.