Government

Full Title or Meme

Sovereign states have a monopoly of use of force in its jurisdiction.

Context

• Each government can create departments of a variety of sorts which can be granted some subset of the government's sovereign powers.
• For US State governments, it has been common for each agency to create their own customer/stakeholder lists with identity and sign-in.

Problems

Kristina Yasuda to Everyone
UAE seems to have the best digital ID app

7:09 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
Singapore refused to accept paper certs that Japanese gov issued

7:09 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
so if you are a vaccinated Japanese flying to Singapore, and only have a paper one, you need 14 day quarantine

7:11 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
btw doing NFC phone to phone for mDL is really awkward

7:11 AMTorsten Lodderstedt to Everyone
bumping phones instaed of fists :-)

7:13 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
oh yeah, new way to do greetings :D

7:15 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
UAE is the same - I think your national ID card itself is a credit card lol

7:15 AMTorsten Lodderstedt to Everyone
and the government will pay your debts ;-)

7:16 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
wish mDL ecosystem would be the same

7:16 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
log into OIDC to get an mDL

7:17 AMKristina Yasuda to Everyone
simple

Solutions

• Cross-border digital ID is coming: Mastercard plans to supply infrastructure 2021-11-29. The governments of Singapore Australia and New Zealand working on interop.