Date: 2024-12-26 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00016704
Events: New York June 3rd 2019)
Technology Salon NYC
Join us for the next Technology Salon NYC ... Will Digital Identities Support or Control Us? Technology Salon New York City - June 3 - RSVP Now
Peter Burgess
Around the world, countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems, from India's Aadhaar to other systems in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Estonia. 'Digital ID' has become a buzzword.
It’s undeniable that ID is essential as a gateway to services, to rights, to the ability to get a job or conduct financial transactions. Digital ID is enabling increased efficiencies and new commercial opportunities, and there is much enthusiasm for the empowering potential of digital ID to increase opportunities for individual control.
Yet, for millions around the world, 'identification in a digital age' can make life more complex - not to mention bring with it quite serious risks if not implemented thoughtfully and carefully.
The lack of an ID or trying to get an ID is challenging as systems are more interdependent than ever. There are also discussions around ID as enabling greater surveillance, leading to the UK's rejection of a national ID in 2006 and implied in IDNYC's decision to 'ask no questions' and offer an ID to all, from previously incarcerated to undocumented migrants. Or that Digital ID is a gateway to China-type “social credit” systems.
Please RSVP now to join your peers at the next Technology Salon NYC. We’ll start by determining the difference between “identity”, “identification,” and “ID” and ask:
- How identification in a digital world affects our futures?
- What are the key challenges?
- What are the design policy changes needed?
- Savita Bailur, Research Director, Caribou Digital
- Emrys Schoemaker, Research Director, Caribou Digital,
- Aiden Slavin, Chief of Stuff, ID2020
- What do we mean by Digital ID? Who is doing it? Why and what for?
- What issues does Digital ID aim to resolve?
- What does digitizing ID entail? What technologies are being used?
- Where are examples of Digital ID systems? How are they working?
- What are social, technological and ethical challenges?
- What should be done to mitigate these challenges?
- Who is most impacted (positively and negatively) by Digital IDs?
- How will new technologies (facial recognition, biometrics) impact Digital IDs?
Digital IDs June Technology Salon 9:00-11:00am Monday, June 3, 2019
OSF Offices 224 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019
About the Technology Salon
The Technology Salon™ is an intimate, informal, and in person, discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both:
- technology's impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and
- private enterprise driven economic development, facilitated by technology.
It's also a great opportunity to meet others motivated to employ technology to solve vexing development problems. Join us today!
Copyright © 2019 Technology Salon, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list