Episode 41: National ID Challenges

What are the priorities and tradeoffs of certain approaches to building a national identity infrastructure? How can you build a system that enables people to assert their identity and claims, and also protects their privacy ?

What are the most pressing use cases? Voting? Healthcare? Opening bank account ? Other private sector RPs?

How to balance the tradeoffs of privacy, fraud reduction, and poverty reduction presented by a system like Aadhaar.

Do Verifiable Credentials offer a “leapfrog opportunity”?

What to put on the blockchain (if anything) ?

What did Singpass get right in Singapore ?

Whether to engage with the 50-in-5 initiative, DPGA, or Govstack

Sovereignty vs availability ?

Accessibility v. progress ?