Output
1) Report on Digital Identify Equivalency across APEC (APEC Publication)
his project will commission a minimum of 40 page (excluding annexes) report/study on Digital Identity Equivalency across APEC. All APEC economies will be invited to participate in the survey and will be eligible to be included in the report and equivalency mapping exercise. However if an economy does not participate in the survey, their inclusion in the report and the level of detail on their DI systems will be subject to readily available public information. At a minimum the report will include in depth detail on a range of APEC economies including economies adopting each broadly different approach/framework to digital identity, developed and developing economies, and those economies who are advanced in digital identity regulation as well as those who are just beginning.
The report will be based on:
a) desktop research and economy contributions covering each economies white papers, legislation, technical standards, public strategies; and other documents relating to digital identity;
b) a structured online survey of digital identity policy leads in APEC economies, leading to a cleaned survey dataset; and
c) further detailed research and analysis as required.
The study will cover four domains:
1. Core digital identity concepts, definitions, and approaches in all participating APEC economies.
2. Stated Levels of Assurance (LoA) frameworks.
3. Trust Frameworks and approaches to regulation of digital identity services, services including approaches to prevent misuse of digital identity.
4. Usage or endorsement of international technical standards, 1. including identifying which:
?technical standards and international technical standards currently exist in the digital identity domain, including those outside of formal standards bodies like ISO;
?standards are being used by APEC member economies, and what guidance, direction or mandate has been made at an economy level to endorse/object to adoption of a standard.
The study will also consider how these work in practice through three use- cases, such as:
1. In-person presentation (mobile driver licence).
2. “Know Your Customer” anti-money laundering compliance for online banking.
3. Delegated authority (e.g., parent presenting a child’s vaccination credential).
4. Privacy preserving online age assurance.
The study will include an equivalency matrix cross tabulating key elements of DI approach by participating economy identifying convergences, gaps and blockers.
Extensive feedback will be sought on the draft report including offering one on one meetings with those economies that wish to go through the findings in detail.
2) Virtual Presentation on Research Findings
The project will also commission a 3 hour virtual presentation/webinar, for the contractor to present on the findings of their research and analysis to interested officials from each economy. The presentation will be held after endorsement of the draft report but before publication. Details on the target audience are covered in "12.Linkages" and it is expected there will be up to 50 participants (2 from each Economy plus ABAC, PECC).
Outcome
1) Increased knowledge of the convergences and divergences between APEC economies approach to digital identity.
2) Policy ready insights:
The report will not proscribe changes in policy within member economies; however it will provide policy ready insights which can be picked up by economies wishing to explore:
- Adopting or changing digital identity models, frameworks and systems;
- Interoperability agreements with other APEC economies, including in specific use cases.
3) Enabling (short to medium term):
- APEC projects on digital identity by providing foundational analysis of identity framework compatibility across the region;
- further research and reports outlining recommendations for increased interoperability of digital identity systems amongst APEC economies, regionally and globally;
- further research into specific use cases building on the foundational level research in the report.
4) Informing (medium to long term) bilateral, plurilateral or regional:
-pilot trials;
-interoperability agreements in respect of specific use cases;and
-interoperability agreements at the framework level.
Beneficiaries
This project will primarily benefit officials in APEC economies looking into Digital Identity systems, approaches or particular use cases, or wishing to start exploring interoperability of different Digital Identity systems.
The project participants will assist in collecting the raw inputs for the desktop research and in responding to the survey. These participants will primarily come from government departments responsible for implementing digital identity frameworks, as well as specific ministries, who may be responsible for specific use cases. In some economies private sector organisations may be nominated as being responsible for implementation of DI in specific use cases (i.e know your customer), and therefore these private sector organisations may also help to provide the research and survey inputs.
The report will be targeted at these same participants, particularly those who are responsible for the future policy direction of digital identity models and frameworks in each economy.
Indirect beneficiaries are individuals, businesses and organizations that use and benefit from digital identity systems across the APEC region, especially those engaged in international business and travel.
